With the arrival of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom as one of the final 2023 movie releases, the DC Extended Universe era will come to an end, and from the ashes will rise the new DC Universe’s Chapter One slate. In the midst of this though, Matt Reeves’ The Batman saga, which takes place in its own universe, will continue running, with The Batman: Part II set to arrive in late 2025 and the spinoff TV show The Penguin headed to Max subscribers sometime in 2024. However, DC Studios co-president James Gunn has now revealed that Reeves is also contributing to the DC Universe, and I’m honestly surprised how it’s happening.
Those of you who’ve been following along with the goings on of The Batman saga will recall that in March 2022, the same time Robert Pattinson’s debut as the Caped Crusader was released, Reeves revealed that he was putting together an upcoming DC TV show about Arkham Asylum, the institution where many of Batman’s villains are incarcerated. Naturally it was assumed that this Arkham show would take place in The Batman world, but that’s not the case at all, with Gunn telling a fan on Threads who mentioned the series while inquiring about if Reeves had any other “Batverse” projects in the works:
