The Great Risk, and Greater Reward of Adding Video Games to the DCU

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As part of James Gunn’s big reveal for the newly launched DCU, he shared that video games will tie into the movies, TV, and animation projects that will make up Warner Bros. Discovery’s big reboot of the DC universe. While Hollywood has spent the last century perfecting the production process of movies and TV shows, paving the way for grand, interconnected universes, adding video games into the mix could be a bold direction that not even DC’s rivals at Marvel are trying to do.

During a press conference Gunn revealed, “And what we're doing with the DCU is we are having animation tied directly into live-action television and movies and games all intertwined within the same universe. We're going to cast actors that are going to be able to play the characters in this as well as in other things.” This sets up a possible future where an actor cast in the DCU could potentially voice the same character in a video game. But incorporating video games into a cinematic universe is much easier said than done, considering not even Marvel and its Disney-backed power have attempted something similar.

So what games should we expect from the new DC Studios? So far, the details are not as concrete as the movie, TV, and animation projects that were announced. But it sounds like direct tie-in games are out, meaning whatever video game plan DC has will be for original stories, much like the already-announced movies and shows.

“I think what's very different about it for us, for DC is it's not like we're going to have Superman come out and then have the Superman game come out,” Gunn said. “It's more like we have the Superman [movie] come out and then two years later we have Supergirl coming out. So what's the story in between there? Is there a