After all this time, the DC Universe that kicked off with Creature Commandos and Superman still feels like it is trying to find its footing. With roughly one major film plus a TV to its credit each year, the reshaped universe is certainly off to a slow start, if not a deliberate one.
Late in 2024, the Commandos went on their first mission, which was the only DCU entry to boast about within that calendar. Then six months later in mid-2025 came James Gunn’s Superman and his second season of Peacemaker that was serendipitously fast-tracked. This year belongs to Supergirl, Lanterns, and the dark horse that is Clayface.
After that, we have the Superman follow-up Man of Tomorrow and The Batman: Part II coming in 2027. A year from then, in the summer of 2028, the avant-garde Dark Knight-adjacent adventure Dynamic Duo will be upon us. And beyond that, anything planned is either too early in development or a title on the board DC Studios might get to.
The next two years contain everything official, with nothing else at the moment announced for late ‘28 or 2029. Does this mean the DCU and/or DC Studios won't be around in four years? Let's be frank – no, not really. Can anything happen? If the last decade has taught us anything, it's this: The answer is always “yes, definitely.”
There are those counting on anything that can and will happen, and for good reason: things keep getting more interesting and tumultuous over at DC's parent company, Warner Bros., with each passing day, week, and month.
The legacy studio is a hot potato in the entertainment industry, and that status goes back years. They managed to keep the Warner name, but they were swallowed up and passed around in merger after merger for the last 30 years. It began in the mid-1990s with the Time Warner merger that led to the one with AOL a short time later. In the past decade they were acquired by AT&T who soon dumped WB and its heaps of debt on Discovery.
Now, Discovery and CEO David Zaslav are ready to cash out and hand the Warner assets off to Paramount-Skydance. Shareholders approved the deal, and despite the fact actors and filmmakers are standing against it, it will more than likely go through—creating a new age for Paramount, Warner, and the entire studio system.
This eventuality is sowing doubt about the future of James Gunn, DC Studios, and the DCU. Gunn, his post, and his place of business are all deemed safe for now, but channeling the spirit of “anything can happen,” some expect Paramount to wipe the table clean with their own plans. Those could include the restoration of Zack Snyder and his DCEU cast of characters and actors, particularly Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck.
Restore the Snyderverse?
Possibilities such as that are put forth by would-be insiders and anonymous sources most of the time. But this little wrinkle isn't stopping them from viewing the slightest shift internally at Warner/DC as validation of their hopes. The fact that official film announcements stop with Dynamic Duo in 2028 is only the latest sign.
A vocal crowd has not let go of the DCEU or Cavill’s Man of Steel. They want it back more than anything so Snyder can finish his story. They see Gunn and his DCU as the biggest obstacle to that even though Gunn and Snyder are friends and colleagues who collaborated when the latter first dabbled in the zombie-apocalypse subgenre with Dawn of the Dead.
Even if they want to revisit DC, the fact is Snyder and Cavill moved on and may never find the time. Cavill especially is busy building other film universes with Highlander, Voltron, and Warhammer 40K. His schedule is rather full.
While it is also true there isn't much movement on previously announced tentpoles such as Swamp Thing and The Authority, DC Studios hasn't so much canceled them as put them on the backburner and pivoted to what has real momentum.
This is where Dynamic Duo comes in. A collaboration between DC and the untested animation studio Swaybox, it's been in the works for years. The story is under wraps but reportedly focuses on mutual Boy Wonders Dick Grayson and Jason Todd. This adaptation of their saga will be brought to life with an inventive mix of puppets and animation, supposedly like nothing seen before.
The film is co-produced by James Gunn and Matt Reeves through his 6th and Idaho banner, which is also involved in The Batman and The Penguin. Despite this, Dynamic Duo is said to be standalone and not connected to the continuity of Reeves’s “Epic Batman Crime Saga” or the DCU. It opens in theaters on June 30, 2028.
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