Wonder Twins Movie Officially Shut Down As Warner Bros Sets New Mandate For DC Films
DC's Wonder Twins film was set to start shooting this summer in July, with its release set to be on the HBO Max streaming platform. However, that is now a thing of the past, or at least very, very distant future.
The DC film has been paused for now according to multiple sources. This news is shocking to many because it comes just a month after the confirmation that Riverdale starKJ Apa and 1883 actress Isabel May were set to star in the film as the duo. The film studio had also hired Black Adam's Adam Sztykiel to write and direct the upcoming film, with Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey set to produce the film.
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The Hollywood Reporter notes that the decision to stop moving forward with the film was made a few weeks back, due to the heads of Warner Bros. Discovery setting a new mandate in place that all DC film projects going forward would be set with a “theatrical-first goal,” and the Wonder Twinsadaptation was “too niche” in retrospect. It has also been reported that the film's cost was too high for an HBO Max feature, with the Wonder Twins budget suspected to fall in the ballpark of about $75 million dollars, with the preferred budget for HBO Max films being around $35 million dollars. This also comes after the Warner Bros. Discovery merger and Discovery head David Zaslav's pledge to axe around $3 billion dollars at the freshly conjoined company.
Wonder Twins tells the tale of alien siblings Zan and Jayna, who come from the planet Exxor. The twins' power is something new compared to the recent releases within the DC universe. Jayna has the power to shape-shift into different animals and her brother Zan can shift into different moulds of water. These powers are activated as
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