DC Studios has revealed its full slate of film and TV tasks coming quickly underneath the management of James Gunn and Peter Safran. The record contains 5 function movies and 5 tv sequence for HBO Max, headlined by two Batman films and a Man of Metal reboot, Superman: Legacy, in 2025.

The lineup contains a number of the comics writer’s most recognizable and well-known heroes and franchises, in addition to some offbeat selections — which shouldn’t shock anybody conversant in Gunn’s résumé, which incorporates the 2022 HBO Max present Peacemaker and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy.

Right here’s a have a look at all the brand new films and reveals coming to the DC Universe:

New DCU films

Superman: Legacy

That is the one mission with a launch date: July 11, 2025. Written by Gunn, Superman: Legacy will comply with Kal-El as he reconciles his extraterrestrial origins along with his human household and upbringing. It seems like a reboot of 2013’s Man of Metal (directed by Zack Snyder) with one essential proviso: Henry Cavill is just not coming again as Superman. So anticipate plenty of anticipation and hype as Gunn will get near discovering his lead.

The Authority

This superhero ensemble dates to a 1999 comedian e book sequence printed underneath DC’s WildStorm imprint. The Authority is a bunch of seven heroes with very high-concept tremendous powers (one, Jack Hawksmoor, is psychically bonded to cities, drawing his power from them). It will likely be the primary look of WildStorm canon within the DC Universe.

The Courageous and the Daring

Picture: Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, Philip Tan/DC Comics

The Courageous and the Daring is a silver-age DC Comics title that, for about 15 years (1967 to 1983) starred Batman and Robin in crossover tales with different DC characters. It was additionally the title of a three-season Batman animated sequence airing on Cartoon Community from 2008 to 2011. DC Studios’ information launch says “the DCU will introduce its Batman and Robin on this uncommon father-son story impressed by Grant Morrison’s comedian sequence.” That sequence was impressed by the animated present.

Supergirl: Lady of Tomorrow

DC Studios says this image, based mostly on Tom King’s award-winning comics tales, “presents a Supergirl viewers are usually not used to seeing.” In truth, they’re not used to seeing Supergirl on an enormous display screen in any respect. Her solely theatrical look thus far is 1984’s Supergirl, starring Helen Slater as Kara Zor-El, and Faye Dunaway as her nemesis.

Swamp Factor

Consider it or not, Swamp Factor (whose first look was in 1971’s Home of Secrets and techniques #92) appeared in two films again within the Nineteen Eighties, the primary one (1982’s Swamp Factor) directed by horror grasp Wes Craven. DC Studios’ lineup announcement says solely that this film “will examine the darkish origins of Swamp Factor.”

New DCU TV reveals

Creature Commandos

Gunn is the author for this sequence, already pegged at seven episodes. In it, Amanda Waller (the director of the Suicide Squad) varieties one other super-team out of “monstrous prisoners.”

Waller

If Creature Commandos wasn’t sufficient, this sequence devoted to Amanda Waller stars Viola Davis within the lead function. DC Studios says the present will function Workforce Peacemaker, and is written by Watchmen’s Christal Henry and Supernatural’s Jeremy Carver.

Booster Gold

Picture: DC Comics

DC Comics’ longtime comic-relief character is a time traveler who makes use of primary expertise and shopper home equipment from the longer term to make himself a superhero in current day.

Lanterns

The Inexperienced Lantern Corps have been the galaxy’s foremost regulation enforcement company since 1959, making Hal Jordan (the Silver Age Inexperienced Lantern) and John Stewart (first look, 1971) excellent for a buddy-cop team-up. DC Studios stated it is going to be an “huge TV occasion sequence” targeted on the 2 unraveling “a darkish thriller.”

Paradise Misplaced

It’s set in Themyscira, so you already know this present will contact Surprise Lady’s historical past and character arc. It’s not clear if she is going to star in it, although. “This drama focuses on the genesis and political intrigue of an island of all girls,” DC Studios stated, which sounds very Recreation-of-Thrones-y.

Gunn and Safran took over as heads of the DC Universe in October, once they had been each introduced as coequal chiefs of DC Studios. The 2 will lead all film, tv, and online game merchandise for the corporate, with Gunn prone to tackle the writing and directing of different tasks as effectively. 2023 can even see the discharge of a variety of pre-DCU movies, together with Shazam: Fury of the Gods, The Flash, and Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom.