For all the great ideas coming out of DC Studios these days, not everything can come to fruition. About half the projects James Gunn initially announced when he first took on the daunting task of rebooting the DC Universe are now MIA; while Creature Commandos, Superman, and Lanterns have all made it through production, the same can’t be said for The Authority, the Suicide Squad spin-off Waller, or Booster Gold. Then there are relics of the old DCEU that Gunn and his creative co-chair, Peter Safran, tried to fit into the new, to no avail.
DC’s defunct Arkham series is one such relic. The Batman director Matt Reeves was once developing a series focused on Arkham Asylum — which would have been canon to the DCU, not his “Batman Epic Crime Universe” — but production stalled. Variety reported that the show was indefinitely shelved in 2024, and no official word has come from DC Studios since. Over a year after that Variety update, however, Gunn is finally breaking the silence, revealing (in his own coy way) why the project fell to the wayside.
