The Brave and the Bold Gets Its Writer, but DC Reportedly in No Rush to Put Out Yet Another Batman Movie

A writer is present moving connected The Brave and the Bold, but DC Studios is reportedly successful nary unreserved to enactment retired yet different Batman movie into the marketplace.

The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Christina Hodson is penning The Brave and the Bold, which volition beryllium the archetypal Batman movie successful James Gunn and Peter Safran’s rebooted DC Universe. Hodson is champion known for penning 2018’s Transformers spinoff Bumblebee, 2020 DCEU movie Birds of Prey, and 2023’s ill-fated The Flash.

She whitethorn beryllium acceptable to reunite with The Flash manager Andy Muschietti, who THR said remains connected committee The Brave and the Bold but whose engagement is not acceptable successful chromatic fixed his commitments to Welcome to Derry Season 2. Either way, it sounds similar The Brave and the Bold is immoderate mode away. THR said “it would beryllium immoderate clip earlier a definitive draught comes successful arsenic the workplace is taking a measured attack to its development.”

Gunn indispensable besides navigate adjacent year’s merchandise of The Batman 2 and perchance The Batman 3. The Batman 2, starring Robert Pattinson successful the rubric role, is acceptable to motorboat five-and-a-half years aft The Batman, connected October 1, 2027. Writer-director Matt Reeves has said helium acceptable retired to marque a trilogy of Batman films arsenic portion of his Batman Epic Crime Saga, and arsenic of 2024 that program was inactive on. The Batman films beryllium successful a beingness abstracted to the ongoing DCU, and fixed Gunn has ruled retired Pattinson’s Batman crossing over, we’re acceptable for a caller histrion to play the Caped Crusader for The Brave and the Bold.

This week Gunn suggested fans won’t get an update connected The Brave and the Bold until aft The Batman 2 comes out, truthful we’re astir apt looking astatine 2028 astatine the earliest for news. “I'm babelike connected erstwhile there's an actionable publication acceptable truthful determination is nary mode of maine guessing this,” helium said. “Also, frankly, we're good into Batman 2, and I wouldn't privation to unreality the Batsphere until aft that.”

Gunn past committed to ne'er releasing 2 Batman movies successful the aforesaid year. “I deliberation some Batman and WW [Wonder Woman] are incredibly important,” helium said successful effect to different fan. “But I'm besides not going to person 2 Batman movies travel retired successful the aforesaid year.”

Reinforcing that sentiment, THR said DC is “giving Reeves’ task ample abstraction to respire and is successful nary unreserved to enactment distant different Batman diagnostic into the marketplace. It wants to marque definite that Brave and the Bold is chiseled capable successful code and look to basal apart, careless of erstwhile it gets made.”

While promoting the rebooted DCU kickstarter Superman past year, Gunn admitted: "Batman's my biggest contented successful each of DC close now." While fans hold for The Brave and the Bold to spot Gunn's Batman successful each his glory, Episode 6 of DCU canon kickstarter Creature Commandos showed Batman lasting connected a rooftop looking down astatine transgression brag Doctor Phosphorus. The representation beneath revealed a mega-stacked Caped Crusader successful his iconic costume, but determination was small other that could beryllium discerned astir Gunn’s instrumentality connected the superhero.

Batman successful Creature Commandos. Image credit: HBO Max.

Based connected comments Gunn issued to Rotten Tomatoes TV pursuing the merchandise of Episode 6, it’s casual to spot wherefore this little look astatine Batman was truthful generic. Gunn said helium asked for "more silhouette" aft the archetypal Batman connected amusement was much elaborate than helium was acceptable to perpetrate to astatine the time.

What this look astatine Batman did supply fans with, Gunn explained, was a wide denotation that Batman not lone already exists wrong the DCU during the events of Creature Commandos and the Superman movie, but that helium is well-known wrong the universe, and that’s wherefore there’s nary request to archer his well-documented root story.

Gunn past made an absorbing remark that suggested the DCU Batman volition squad up with Superman astatine immoderate point.

“This is the DCU Batman,” helium said of the Creature Commandos cameo. “Listen I gotta archer you, I conscionable emotion Batman. I emotion him. I've loved him since I was a small kid. He's 1 of my favourite characters. I've gone connected the grounds successful the past erstwhile I was astatine Marvel saying my favourite quality is Batman. I emotion him and we're going to bash large things with him. He's the astir fashionable superhero successful the satellite and I can't hold for radical to spot much of him, on with Superman, and together.”

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