
In the 2010s, there were various efforts to feature the Justice League Dark in live action, be in a movie or TV show. Regarding the film version, Guillermo del Toro wrote a screenplay focused on this team of magical and supernatural DC Comics characters, and for a while this movie was slated to be part of the DC Extended Universe franchise. Now that del Toro has revealed new details about his Justice League Dark, including how Batman fit into the story, I hope that James Gunn decides to revive it for the DC Universe slate of upcoming DC movies.
Justice League Dark, also known for a time as Dark Universe, came up while Guillermo del Toro appeared on Happy Sad Confused to talk about his latest movie, the Netflix subscription-exclusive and critically-acclaimed Frankenstein. When host Josh Horowitz asked the filmmaker to confirm if Colin Farrell had indeed been cast to play John Constantine in the DC movie, he started off by saying: