Warner Bros., why couldn't you have done this five years ago?!
The hiring of James Gunn and Peter Safran to lead Warner Bros.' DC Films has caused some ripples in the already turbulent waters of DC movies. The third Wonder Woman film was put on hold ahead of Gunn and Safran's pitch to WB for their overall plan, and sequels to Superman and Black Adam may have been put on hold as well. Things are currently so uncertain that even movies you’d expect to be a sure thing are no longer going forward at the moment, like a Batman Beyond movie.
Yep, that was something in the works. Per the Hollywood Reporter’s recent Heat Vision news letter, a movie for the futuristic iteration of the Caped Crusader isn’t going forward at the moment. Booooooooooo. A script was in the works from Batgirl and The Flash writer Christina Hodson, one believed to have delighted executives, but Hodson has since apparently been instructed to cease working on it. According to the Reporter, Michael Keaton would've returned as an older Bruce, and the hope was to include a romance with Catwoman, possibly even bringing back Michelle Pfeiffer's version of the character from Batman Returns.
If you weren't born when Batman Beyond premiered on KidsWB in 1999, the elevator pitch is that Batman (voiced back then by Kevin Conroy) retired and punk teen Terry McGinnis (Will Friedle) took over. The show had a cult following back then, thanks in part to its connection to the DC Animated Universe, but its place in Batman history has been...complicated. Terry and his supporting cast were integrated into the main DC Comics canon, but that didn’t really mean anything until the aftermath of the New 52's “Futures End” event, and he’s headlined his own comic in the years since.
He’s still Bruce’s eventual son, but now the specialness of that is diminished by the existence of Damian Wayne and DC not really doing any time shenanigans to bring Terry in the relative DC present day.
With how well-liked Batman Beyond is and how much DC enjoys pulling the Batman trigger, a film feels like a no-brainer. Maybe it’ll still happen after Gunn and Safran’s pitch, but keep in mind that Gunn himself said that the duo would potentially make some moves that would piss folks off. It could just as well be that a Batman Beyond film is something we don’t ever get to see.
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