Dark Universe
Here’s another that’s been long in the works. Hellboy‘s Guillermo del Toro completed a script for a DCEU movie about the Justice League Dark – the JLA’s supernatural counterpart – back in 2014. A year later, however, Del Toro left the project, presumably taking his script with him.
Since then, Edge of Tomorrow‘s Doug Liman has been snapped up as director (he left Fox’s Gambit movie to take hold of the project) with Michael Gilio writing the new screenplay. Now renamed Dark Universe, the movie is set to feature such characters as John Constantine, Swamp Thing, Zatann, The Spectre and Deadman.
Booster Gold
And now for something slightly different. The DCEU has up to now been known for its grim tone, but the upcoming Booster Gold film will apparently be more comedic – being touted as a “superhero buddy cop movie.”
It’s assumed, but not confirmed, that Booster Gold’s frequent crime-fighting partner Blue Beetle will also feature. DC TV supremo Greg Berlanti is on producing and possibly directing duties, with his Flash screenwriter Zack Stentz doing the script. Interestingly, the Booster Gold movie will apparently have no “connective tissue” with the DC Extended Universe, suggesting that it’ll take place in its own continuity, instead.