There’s a hefty amount of heroes and villains lined up to continue James Gunn’s vision of the DC Universe, but one hero that it would take an extra bit of magic to include would be Zatanna. The spell-casting hero might not be as well known as Wonder Woman or Batman, but she’s certainly held her own in the comics, earning a place in both the Justice League as well as a supernatural branch of supers, Justice League Dark. A few years back, when the DCEU was struggling to find its footing before being wiped clean, Warner Bros. approached Emerald Fennell -- the director of the half-remembered dream but fully divisive recent romance Wuthering Heights -- to make a film, which unfortunately never came to pass.
During an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Fennell spoke about her brief brush with the comic book world. "I just finished Promising Young Woman, and there was this huge thing in this world that I’d never operated in,” the director recalled. “It was a kind of superhero movie, and I was like, ‘Okay, how do I make the version of a superhero movie that I would connect to emotionally,’ which is sort of the woman in the middle of a nervous breakdown.”
