Back in 2021, it was reported We spent eight years in power Author Ta-Nehisi Coates has been writing a new book Superman The script has been described as a “20th century piece” about a black version of the Man of Steel. While details about the project were thin at the time, J.J. Abrams as producer was attached to credence to the idea that it might actually come to fruition and be part of Warner Bros. Pictures. (Discovery wasn’t part of the picture yet) A vision of the DCEU’s complex future.
Between the merger of Warner Bros. Discovery, the company’s internal reorganization, and the debut of the new DC studios, it made sense for Gunn and co. They wanted to start the era of intellectual property stewardship with the projects they developed. But according to Gunn, the same way Matt Reeves used it Batman Phillips would like joker The films have managed to coexist in their own continuities outside of the studio’s core cinematic universe, something similar could be done for Coates and Abrams’ Superman if the circumstances are right.
In a recent interview with io9Gunn explained that even though they are based on the same character, Superman: Legacy and the potential Coates and Abrams film are “completely unrelated”, but he described the project as a “thriller” from what he heard internally.
“I know Chantal Nong, the executive director on this project, is very excited about it,” John said. So if it comes up and it’s great, which I didn’t read the script for, and if the timing is right, it definitely could. That’s absolutely unrelated. It would be a tale like Elseworlds. joker. “
Gunn’s “if” and the fact that he hasn’t read the script yet doesn’t exactly inspire the greatest confidence that there’s real momentum behind a Black Superman movie all together. But the name-dropping “Elseworlds” imprint outright – DC comics set in continuity and far-fetched realities – at a time when the studio was trekking into the multiverse by the light He feels noteworthy for what he can bring to DC Studios moving forward.
Up until this point, DC has really relied on fans to know which of its movies are meant to be canon and which aren’t. But creating an Elseworlds movie presence could be a way for the studio to more effectively telegraph to audiences how things like it Joker: Folie à Deux and max penguin The show is supposed to fit into the picture alongside a new, vacant Robert Pattinson Batman The DC movie is also working on.
The Elseworlds films could also be a way for The Rock and Henry Cavill to reprise their roles as Black Adam and Clark Kent in the way they’re indicated, but if this ends up being the case, one hopes Coates and Abrams’ Superman end up in the production slate as well.