Except for the Robert Pattison reboot The Batman, upcoming DC movies will be part of a strongly interconnected universe.
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a new report suggests the studio is going to attempt just that one more time – they intend for their upcoming slate of DC movies to be part of an interconnected universe.
According to THR, DC is “plotting its films and shows to share the same universe,” which includes upcoming projects like
Aquaman 2,
Black Adam, and
Shazam! Fury of the Gods. The one big outlier here is
Matt Reeves’
The Batman, which reboots the titular character with
Robert Pattinson filling out the role, but THR says this film is set on an alternate Earth known as Earth-2.
Indeed, key to this plan going forward is
The Flash, which finally begins production this month under director
Andy Muschietti with
Ezra Miller reprising the titular role. That movie
will introduce the idea of the multiverse – the notion that other versions of Earth exist with different realities. To that end, the film will find
Michael Keaton reprising his role as Batman from the
Tim Burton movies and
Ben Affleck reprising his Batman role from the Snyder films, exemplifying how two different Batmen can exist in two different realities at once.
So going forward, there will be outliers like
The Batman and
Joker which exist in different realities, and potentially that
J.J. Abrams-produced
Superman movie that
Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing that will introduce audiences to a Black Superman, but films like
Aquaman 2 and
Black Adam will occupy the same reality and will have stories that are interconnected.
Key to this plan is HBO Max, and Warner Bros. is keen on crafting TV spinoffs for each of their DC films.
James Gunn’s
The Suicide Squad – which will be part of this interconnected universe when it hits theaters in August – has an HBO Max spinoff called
Peacemaker starring
John Cena, and even
The Batman has an HBO Max spinoff in the works revolving around Gotham P.D.