DC Head James Gunn Teases New Future for WB Games With ‘Some Larger Issues’ Now ‘in Early Phases’

DC Studios co-CEO and Superman Director James Gunn says huge issues are in retailer for Warner Bros. Games, but it surely’s going to take some time to see them come to fruition.

The comedian e-book bigwig spoke about his plans to develop the DC universe throughout an interview with GamesRadar+. As Gunn, co-CEO Peter Safran, and the remainder of the DC Studios crew plot a brand new course for DCU exhibits and films, the Superman moviemaker says he has no plans to depart gaming out of the equation.

“There’s been some slight movement on different things,” Gunn teased. “We have a couple of little DC games coming out. But we also have talked about – and in early stages of planning – some bigger things. One thing in particular I’m excited about, but it does take time. There’s been some changes in Warner Bros. Games, and so we’re dealing with new people.”

Those adjustments he’s referring to have unraveled all through the final yr or so and have seen WB Games shifting its focus to 4 key franchises: Mortal Kombat, Harry Potter, DC, and Game of Thrones. It’s a elementary change to how Warner Bros. is seeking to the longer term following large losses tied to Rocksteady Studios’ Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League, in addition to the underperformance and eventual shutdown of MultiVersus. WB Games head David Haddad left the corporate in January.

The studio additionally canceled its Wonder Woman recreation and shut down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego in February. Although WB Games has managed to ship profitable comedian book-based video video games just like the Injustice collection and Batman Arkham collection, DC gaming nonetheless has some work to do if it desires to make up misplaced floor.

Gunn teases issues are lastly in movement at WB Games however declined to share what sort of DC initiatives followers can anticipate to see sooner or later. However, GamesRadar+ provides that the director teased that there’s a good likelihood Superman star David Corenswet might reprise his function for a online game.

Gunn and Safran shared earlier this yr that will probably be “a couple of years” earlier than followers get their fingers on the primary DCU video games. Safran says they’ve been hands-on in relation to new initiatives at studios like Injustice studio NetherRealm and Batman Arkham developer Rocksteady as they steer DC in a contemporary course.

“We see designs for the projects in their very earliest stages,” Gunn added on the time. “We talk about those. We talk about when they’re talking about what the story might be, we say, ‘Well, maybe you want to go this way because we’re planning on maybe doing something with this character and so forth and so on,’ and help to deal with that.”

It shall be a while earlier than a brand new imaginative and prescient for WB Games involves fruition. In the meantime, the studio has been busy with Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, which it introduced as a part of gamescom 2025 earlier this week. Although followers are divided resulting from its restricted roster, many have already discovered themselves drawn to its recreation of traditional film moments and Batman Arkham-like fight.

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