Where Will The Batman Fit Into Warner's 10-Year DC Plan?
In the midst of Warner Bros.’ merger with Discovery, David Zaslav has taken over the studio and he has some big plans for Warner’s DC properties. His first controversial move as Warner’s new chief was to scrap a $90 million Batgirl movie that was near completion just for a tax write-off. To justify that write-off, the Batgirl movie – which Warner was recently considering switching from a streaming release to theatrical – will never see the light of day on any platform. Now that Batgirl has gotten the can, the Blue Beetle movie, starring a little-known C-list superhero, and The Flash movie, starring serial criminal Ezra Miller, are probably close behind.
James Gunn has assured fans that the second season of Peacemaker is still going ahead, but in-development projects like the Nightwing movie and the Black Canary spin-off and Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman threequel might not be so lucky. Right now, Zaslav is mercilessly gutting upcoming projects left and right as he settles into his throne and reimagines DC Films’ output. But he’s not just axing movies and streaming shows for the sake of it; he’s plotting to reshape and reconfigure the entire DC Extended Universe so that the franchise will finally have some coherence. According to his ambitious DCEU plans, Zaslav will start announcing new projects in their place soon enough.
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From the very beginning, the DCEU has been a failed attempt to emulate Marvel’s success with an interconnected movie franchise. Zaslav believes he has a solution: to start from scratch and try to copy the MCU all over again. He’s bringing in a team of executives to act as a sort of Kevin Feige collective to oversee the on-screen handling of
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