And Now Warner Bros. Has Put A Nightwing Movie Into Development

The DC Extended Universe currently comprises of three feature films, Man Of Steel, Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice and Suicide Squad. 2017 will bring two more entries into the cinematic universe, Wonder Woman and Justice League. After that, the schedule gets fuzzy, as the original plan for 2018 (which would have seen the release of three movies, The Flash, Aquaman and an untitled project that was presumed to be Ben Affleck's Batman movie) have been put into disarray following The Flash being shoved back into development and behind-the-scenes reshuffling of the new Batman movie. It's expected the original slate for 2019 and 2020 will also be changing, especially since Warner Bros, and DC Films have been adding a bevy of new projects into the pipeline for this cinematic universe.


The newest movie being added to the slate is a Nightwing movie to be directed by The LEGO Batman Movie director Chris McKay and written by Bill Dubuque. Nightwing is a persona taken up by Dick Grayson, the first Robin. You may remember Robin from his quasi-cameo in Batman v. Superman, where Batman stared at a suit of armor that was supposed to belong to Robin despite him never referring to it as Robin's and the suit not looking look like something Robin ever wore in the comics. Nightwing is just one of a number of recently announced DC projects (like the Black Adam movie, Suicide Squad 2 and Gotham City Sirens) being added to this universe's slate of movies.

Let's get organized for a second and allow me to list off all the upcoming DC Extended Universe movies currently in development for 2018 and beyond.

Aquaman (due out in October 2018)
Shazam (due out in April 2019)
Cyborg (this one is totally come out in April 2020)
Green Lantern Corps. (due out in June 2020)
The Batman
Untitled Superman Movie
Lobo
Black Adam
Untitled Deadshot Movie (wasn't that Suicide Squad?)
Suicide Squad 2
Gotham City Sirens
Dark Universe
Justice League Sequel
and now
Nightwing

That's, uh, that's a lot of movies, many of which even have directors attached to them. I sincerely doubt the majority of these actually come to fruition since I have no clue how Warner Bros. could sustain even half of these big franchises around at once. The future of the DC Extended Universe is in apparent state of flux at the moment, hopefully it gets itself reoriented with a more concrete schedule and some actually good movies (even tolerable would be an improvement at this point) to go with it.