{"id":145719,"date":"2025-06-17T02:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T02:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/james-gunn-says-batman-is-his-biggest-issue-in-the-dc-universe\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T02:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T02:45:26","slug":"james-gunn-says-batman-is-his-biggest-issue-in-the-dc-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/james-gunn-says-batman-is-his-biggest-issue-in-the-dc-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Says Batman Is His &#8216;Biggest Issue&#8217; In The DC Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/dc-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dc-studios\" data-tag=\"dc-studios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DC Studios<\/a> prepares for launch July 11, with the premiere of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/james-gunn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-gunn\" data-tag=\"james-gunn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Gunn<\/a>-helmed <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/superman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_superman\" data-tag=\"superman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Superman<\/a><\/em>, it\u2019s trying to not tread the errors of competitor Marvel. As such, the DC Universe should kind its personal cache of superheroes, together with the Caped Crusader, which the DC Studios co-CEO calls his \u201cbiggest issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn a sprawling Q&amp;A with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-features\/superman-director-james-gunn-dc-studios-interview-1235356450\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>, the <em>Guardians of the Galaxy <\/em>director mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matt-reeves\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matt-reeves\" data-tag=\"matt-reeves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Reeves<\/a>\u2018 followup to the Robert Pattinson-starring <em>The Batman<\/em>, explaining how there may be little likelihood that character might enter the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/dcu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dcu\" data-tag=\"dcu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DCU<\/a> quickly to be established by the David Corenswet-led <em>Superman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt would be a consideration,\u201d Gunn mentioned of pulling Pattinson\u2019s model of Bruce Wayne into the DCU. \u201cWe\u2019d have to think about it. We\u2019d have to think about it. It is not like we\u2019ve never discussed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tClarifying if there was a non-zero likelihood that might occur, he responded: \u201cI would never say zero, because you just never know. But it\u2019s not likely. It\u2019s not likely at all. I\u2019ll also say\u00a0<em>Batman Part II<\/em>\u00a0is not canceled. That\u2019s the other thing I hear all the time \u2014 that\u00a0<em>Batman Part II\u00a0<\/em>is canceled. It\u2019s not canceled. We don\u2019t have a script. Matt\u2019s slow. Let him take his time. Let him do what he\u2019s doing. God, people are mean. Let him do his thing, man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs a outcome, Gunn is engaged on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-brave-and-the-bold\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-brave-and-the-bold\" data-tag=\"the-brave-and-the-bold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Brave and the Bold<\/a><\/em>, a separate movie in regards to the Gotham City protector, alongside the (undisclosed) author. <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/andy-muschietti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Muschietti<\/a> is about to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/06\/batman-brave-and-the-bold-andy-muschietti-the-flash-1235418654\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">direct the pic<\/a>, nonetheless <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/02\/dc-gods-and-monsters-latest-1236299103\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in growth<\/a> as of February 2025; drawing from Grant Morrison\u2019s run of Batman within the comics, it can heart on the Dark Knight and his son, of whose existence he\u2019s unaware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cBatman\u2019s my biggest issue in all of DC right now, personally. And it\u2019s not \u2014 I\u2019m not writing Batman, but I am working with the writer of Batman and trying to get it right, because he\u2019s incredibly important to DC, as is Wonder Woman,\u201d Gunn informed <em>Rolling Stone.<\/em> \u201cSo outside of the stuff that I\u2019m doing in the projects that are actively going, our two priorities are finishing our Wonder Woman and our Batman scripts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe added, \u201cBatman has to have a reason for existing, right? So Batman can\u2019t just be \u2018Oh, we\u2019re making a Batman movie because Batman\u2019s the biggest character in all of Warner Bros.,\u2019 which he is. But because there\u2019s a need for him in the DCU and a need that he\u2019s not exactly the same as Matt\u2019s Batman. But yet he\u2019s not a campy Batman. I\u2019m not interested in that. I\u2019m not interested in a funny, campy Batman, really. So we\u2019re dealing with that. I think I have a way in, by the way. I think I really know what it\u2019s \u2014 I just am dealing with the writer to make sure that we can make it a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] As DC Studios prepares for launch July 11, with the premiere of the James Gunn-helmed Superman, it\u2019s trying to not tread the errors of competitor Marvel. As such, the DC Universe should kind its personal cache of superheroes, together with the Caped Crusader, which the DC Studios co-CEO calls his \u201cbiggest issue.\u201d In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7136,3702,1484,5952,457,1410],"class_list":{"0":"post-145719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-batman","9":"tag-biggest","10":"tag-gunn","11":"tag-issue","12":"tag-james","13":"tag-universe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}