With the arrival of a brand new Superman film later this yr, the brand new DC Universe continues to develop on movie and tv. But what concerning the video video games? In accordance with DC Studios co-chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran, DCU video games are nonetheless in improvement, however they’re nonetheless years away from being launched.
“We work extremely intently with [Global Streaming and Games CEO] JB Perrette, who runs that division, and it is actually the primary time it is ever been this fashion at Warner Brothers,” Safran mentioned to IGN. “James and I sit with actually the blokes that run the studios beneath JB, whether or not it is NetherRealm or whether or not it is Rocksteady, sit with them and discuss characters and tales that we’re eager about and that they are eager about.”
It is value mentioning that there’s a distinction between a DCU recreation and a recreation based mostly on the characters of DC Comics. The DC Universe is basically the umbrella time period encompassing the brand new shared universe overseen by Gunn and Saffran, which incorporates characters like the brand new live-action Superman, the Creature Commandos, and a brand new silver display screen incarnation of Batman who’ll be launched in The Courageous and the Daring. To make issues barely extra complicated, Matt Reeves’ The Batman is a part of its personal continuity, the, The Batman Epic Crime Saga, that features The Penguin and an upcoming Clayface venture.
Gunn–who directed the brand new Superman movie–added that the 2 co-chairs get to see these initiatives throughout their earliest phases whereas additionally advising the studios on the route that they might take with DC’s characters. “We discuss after they’re speaking about what the story could be, we are saying, ‘Properly, perhaps you need to go this fashion as a result of we’re planning on perhaps doing one thing with this character and so forth and so forth,’ and assist to take care of that,” Gunn defined, whereas Safran added that the primary DCU recreation shall be revealed a number of years from now.
“Yeah, it is a couple [of] years, however we have had some fairly energetic involvement in some stuff developing. It is actually attention-grabbing,” Saffran mentioned.
Issues have not been rosy for Warner Bros. Video games recently, as Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was a essential and monetary flop, MultiVersus added to the corporate’s monetary woes, and Monolith’s Surprise Girl recreation has reportedly price greater than $100 million thus far, with little or no progress to this point. The identical report from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier additionally talked about that Gotham Knights developer WB Video games Montreal unsuccessfully pitched a John Constantine recreation and a Flash recreation was additionally claimed to be in improvement till the live-action movie bombed, resulting in its cancellation.
The silver lining right here is that Rocksteady is alleged to be returning to its single-player Batman roots for its subsequent venture, as WB Video games is now focusing its efforts and sources on its greatest franchises.