With the arrival of a brand new Superman film later this yr, the brand new DC Universe continues to develop on movie and tv. However 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 carefully with [Global Streaming and Games CEO] JB Perrette, who runs that division, and it is actually the primary time it is ever been this manner at Warner Brothers,” Safran stated to IGN. “James and I sit with actually the fellows that run the studios beneath JB, whether or not it is NetherRealm or whether or not it is Rocksteady, sit with them and speak about characters and tales that we’re curious about and that they are curious about.”
It is price mentioning that there’s a distinction between a DCU sport and a sport primarily based on the characters of DC Comics. The DC Universe is actually 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 undertaking.
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 course that they may take with DC’s characters. “We speak about once they’re speaking about what the story is likely to be, we are saying, ‘Properly, perhaps you wish to go this manner as a result of we’re planning on perhaps doing one thing with this character and so forth and so forth,’ and assist to cope with that,” Gunn defined, whereas Safran added that the primary DCU sport can be revealed a number of years from now.
“Yeah, it is a couple [of] years, however we have had some fairly lively involvement in some stuff developing. It is actually attention-grabbing,” Saffran stated.
Issues have not been rosy for Warner Bros. Video games currently, as Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was a vital and monetary flop, MultiVersus added to the corporate’s monetary woes, and Monolith’s Surprise Girl sport has reportedly value greater than $100 million up to now, with little or no progress thus far. The identical report from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier additionally talked about that Gotham Knights developer WB Video games Montreal unsuccessfully pitched a John Constantine sport and a Flash sport 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 claimed to be returning to its single-player Batman roots for its subsequent undertaking, as WB Video games is now focusing its efforts and sources on its greatest franchises.
