B atman fans have been patiently waiting for any adaptation featuring Gotham's protector for a while. When James Gunn announced that the upcoming DCU movie featuring The Dark Knig

According to Bloody-Disgusting, the late Return of the Living Dead actors James Karen and Don Calfa will appear in Linnea Quigley’s meta-sequel, Trash’s Revenge, “with the magic of CGI.” In response to a fan on Threads (via Screen Rant ), James Gunn confirmed he’s now “pre-writing” his next DCU project after Superman and Peacemaker season two.

But rather than a weakness, the diversity of the DCU multiverse in projects ranging from The Batman to Creature Commandos to the newly released Harley Quinn season 5 points to the strength of DC Studios,

Creature Commandos kicks off James Gunn’s darker DCU vision, exploring moral ambiguity, shocking losses, and the human cost of superhero conflicts.

Both those projects were helmed by James Gunn, who also made Creature Commandos, has his Superman movie coming this summer on the 2025 movies schedule, and is running DC Studios with producer Peter Safran.

James Gunn has revealed his incredible workload in response to a fan on Threads. The DC Studios head was asked about how he was balancing work on Superman and Peacemaker season 2 with pre-production on a whole host of other DC projects.

James Gunn's Superman movie is still months away from its theatrical release, but the DC Studios boss already has a big update on his next DCU film.

James Gunn has offered an explanation as to how Peacemaker Season 1 and The Suicide Squad fit into the DCU's canon following the release of Creature Commandos. Creature Commandos is the first official project that is part of Gunn and Peter Safran's DCU.

While he is busy working on the post-productions on 'Superman' and 'Peacemaker', James Gunn is now "pre-writing [his] next DC Studios project".

For Superman, one of these baddies is Conduit, a villain who started with potential but fell out of the spotlight until a recent reappearance in Action Comics #1044. Created by long-time Superman talents Dan Jurgens and Louise Simonson,

Fans are especially curious about upcoming DC movies, which will take place in a brand new shared universe created by co-CEO James Gunn. That acclaimed filmmaker is already writing his post-Superman DC Project,