2020 was a big year for animated DC movies. First, the DC Animated Movie Universe timeline wrapped up with Justice League: Apokolips War (although the Constantine: The House of Mystery epilogue followed in 2022), and a few months later, the Tomorrowverse timeline kicked off with Superman: Man of Tomorrow. The latest installment of that latter continuity, Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part One, is now out, and the next two parts are slated as upcoming DC movies for later this year. As it turns out though, not only is Crisis ending the Tomorrowverse, but producer Butch Lukic informed CinemaBlend that this has been “reluctantly” planned since the beginning.
When I recently interviewed Lukic alongside writer Jim Krieg and director Jeff Wamester following Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part One’s release on Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD and Digital, I started off our conversation asking the producer what made now the right time to adapt Crisis for the Tomorrowverse, which was only seven movies deep until now. He responded:
