Amidst a total shift in the DC Universe, DC's Black Superman movie is still in the works, but will just not be a mainline DC Universe film.
is still in the works. However, it won’t be part of the mainline DC Universe., filmmaker and co-CEO of DC Studios James Gunn was asked about the Black Superman movie. The project is said to be coming from writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and producer J.J. Abrams. According to Gunn, however, the project is not related at all to his upcoming. Depending on how the script looks, he says, the film could still happen as an Elseworlds project.
“Those two things are totally unrelated,” Gunn said. “That’s an exciting movie. I know that Chantal Nong, who is the executive on that project, is extremely excited about it. So if it comes in and it’s great, which I haven’t read the script, and if the timing is right, that could absolutely happen. That’s totally unrelated. It would be an Elseworlds tale like Joker.
When Gunn and Peter Safran took over as heads of DC Studios and revealed their slate of films in January, the pair said films that don’t fit into the shared DC Universe will be classified as “Elseworlds” projects. These include things like
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