{"id":86087,"date":"2023-03-22T15:37:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T15:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/nightwing-director-hopes-to-continue-work-in-james-gunns-dc-universe\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T15:37:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T15:37:16","slug":"nightwing-director-hopes-to-continue-work-in-james-gunns-dc-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/nightwing-director-hopes-to-continue-work-in-james-gunns-dc-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nightwing\u2019 Director Hopes To Continue Work In James Gunn\u2019s DC Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>For years, DC Universe followers have been hoping to see Dick Grayson, Batman\u2019s authentic Robin, make his large display debut as Nightwing in his personal movie. In a current interview, director Chris McKay says he hopes his <em>Nightwing<\/em> mission can come to fruition in James Gunn\u2019s DC Universe.<\/p>\n<p>Chris McKay\u2019s involvement in a possible <em>Nightwing<\/em> movie was first reported by <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/warner-bros-plotting-nightwing-movie-lego-batman-movie-director-978737\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em> again in 2017 after the success of <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/heroichollywood.com\/lego-batman-justice-league-sequel-details\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Lego Batman Movie<\/a><\/em>, which was additionally directed by the filmmaker and closely featured Grayson\u2019s early days as Robin. While it was reported that Bill Dubuque, finest recognized for his work on dramas like <em>Ozark<\/em>, would helm the script, growth of the movie shortly stalled on account of behind-the-scenes issues. Now with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/heroichollywood.com\/james-gunn-peter-safran-dc-studios-first-projects-official\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gunn and Peter Safran helming a brand new period of the DCU<\/a>, McKey reveals that he nonetheless hopes to make the movie: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I am still hoping to do something with it,\u201d McKay advised <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/chris-mckay-nightwing-movie-update-dc-james-gunn\/\" target=\"_blank\">SFX Magazine<\/a><\/em>. \u201cNow that James Gunn is involved\u2026 I haven\u2019t had any conversations with him or anybody over there, but I love that character. I hope I can do something with him. That would be amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McKay has been a constant advocate for the <em>Nightwing<\/em> movie regardless of growth on the movie stalling. He now could also be nearer than ever to it coming to fruition with the upcoming <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/heroichollywood.com\/james-gunn-debunks-grace-randolphs-dcu-batman-rumor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Batman: The Brave and the Bold<\/a><\/em> movie, which is about to function the reside motion debut of Damian Wayne, the fourth Robin, together with different members of the Bat-Family. <\/p>\n<h2>What We Know So Far concerning the DCU Batman<\/h2>\n<p>The recently-announced\u00a0<em>The Brave and the Bold<\/em>\u00a0film is about to revolve across the Bruce Wayne model of Batman and his son Damian, the fifth Robin. During\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heroichollywood.com\/james-gunn-peter-safran-dc-studios-first-projects-official\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the DC Studios presentation<\/a>\u00a0on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California, James Gunn and Peter Safran revealed that the film is about to introduce the principle Batman of the DC Universe.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Pattinson\u2019s Batman is anticipated to stay exterior of the DC Universe, as a part of the DC Elseworlds imprint, with Matt Reeves directing and co-writing his second film\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heroichollywood.com\/james-gunn-superman-movie-the-batman-sequel-release-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for an October 2025 relea<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/heroichollywood.com\/james-gunn-superman-movie-the-batman-sequel-release-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">se<\/a>. As such, Warner Bros. is casting a second model of the Dark Knight for its DC Universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The Brave and the Bold<\/em>. This is the introduction of the DCU Batman, Bruce Wayne, and also our favorite Robin, Damian Wayne,\u201d James Gunn teased throughout the 55-minute DC Universe presentation. \u201c[Damian] is a little son of a bitch, an assassin murderer, who [Bruce] unwittingly takes on, who is Batman\u2019s actual son that he doesn\u2019t know exists for the first eight to ten years of his life. It\u2019s a very strange sort of father and son story about the two of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DC Studios co-head added the next concerning the Batman and Robin film, which doesn&#8217;t but have a launch date: \u201cIt\u2019s based on Grant Morrison\u2019s run on the Batman. There\u2019s a couple of comic book writers that have been exceptionally influential on our stuff and Grant Morrison and Tom King are probably the two primary ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] For years, DC Universe followers have been hoping to see Dick Grayson, Batman\u2019s authentic Robin, make his large display debut as Nightwing in his personal movie. In a current interview, director Chris McKay says he hopes his Nightwing mission can come to fruition in James Gunn\u2019s DC Universe. Chris McKay\u2019s involvement in a possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86087","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=86087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}