James Gunn Teases The Future DCU Projects We Don’t Know About

In a recent interview to promote Superman, DCU boss James Gunn teases the future projects we know about and don’t know about. Gunn who is also writer/director of Superman, the first DCU film recently spoke to EW about his studios future.

Talking the immediate future Gunn said,

“I’m about to wrap Peacemaker. Peacemaker and Superman are both going to end up being sound mixed and color timed at about the same time in the next two weeks. We’re going to see early episodes of that soon. Lanterns is halfway through filming. We’re going to see early episodes of that soon.”

“Then there’s another TV show that’s my favorite thing in all of this, that is hopefully getting made soon. It’s just my favorite thing. And then there’s the movie…Oh s—! I don’t know what I’m allowed to say or not say, but there’s a couple of other movies that are being written, one of which is in pretty good shape, another which is kind of closer to the start, but we feel positive about. And then there’s a thing I’m writing, which I think it’s okay…. So what will be the next thing after Clayface is not 100 percent certain, but it’s pretty certain.”

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Gunn then went on to talk about what we don’t know and what we might know. Teasing a secret project that he doesn’t want anyone else (assumption, Marvel) to rip off before he has it ready.

“My favorite thing has not been announced at all. One of the scripts people kind of know about. My script people don’t know about. The other script people don’t know about. So it’s mostly stuff people don’t know about…. A couple of those things [announced in January 2023] are in pretty good shape in terms of coming up, but there was one thing that I knew about from the very beginning, that when I pitched to David Zaslav what the DCU would be, I pitched to him, but we did not announce in that first meeting because I felt like it was too easy to rip off by another company. And so that’s one of the main things.”

What this could be, who knows? Gunn is writing an unnamed project, which seems to include Superman, but isn’t a direct sequel to Superman.

“What I’m working on is in some way…I mean, yes, yes, yes, yes. But is it a straight-up Superman sequel? I would not say necessarily.”

“Well, I always leave saying I’m going to direct something till I’m actually done with the screenplay, and then I say, “Yeah, I want to do this.” But it’s probably what I will direct. Yeah, probably, to be totally realistic. Yes, probably.”

The Ones We Know About

He’s already told us Wonder Woman is being written, we know a Batman movie is in development. There’s also Sgt. Rock, a possible Teen Titans film and a rumored Bane and Deathstroke film. Clearly there’s something else we don’t know about as well.

As for Sgt Rock,

“I feel like we’re in a pretty good place. We’re still moving forward, but it’s not going to be…What would Peter want me to say here? … So it’s still moving forward, but, yeah, right now it wasn’t exactly where I wanted it to be creatively, and so it needs to change a little bit.”

On whether Paradise Lost is connected to the Wonder Woman film?

“Yes. Well, yes and no. Wonder Woman‘s a separate thing. We’re working on Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman‘s being written right now. So it’s different. I mean, not different. They’re connected. She’s from f—ing Themyscira, so…”

You can read what Gunn had to say about The Batman Part 2 in the link above. However, it amounts to, Matt’s writing it, get off his back and be patient.

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