DC says that “if” Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Superman film is made, it’s going to be an Elseworlds

Again in 2021, it was reported that We Had been Eight Years in Energy writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was penning a brand new Superman script described as “a twentieth century interval piece” that may revolve round a Black model of the Man of Metal. Whereas particulars in regards to the mission had been skinny on the time, J.J. Abrams being hooked up as a producer lent credence to the concept it would truly come to fruition and be a part of Warner Bros.’ (Discovery wasn’t a part of the image simply but) imaginative and prescient for the DCEU’s complicated future.

Between the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, the corporate’s internal reorganization, and the debut of the brand new DC Studios, it made sense that Gunn and co. needed to kick off their period of IP stewardship with initiatives they developed. However in response to Gunn, in the identical means that Matt Reeves’ Batman and Todd Phillips’ Joker movies have been capable of co-exist in their very own respective continuities exterior of the studio’s main cinematic universe, one thing related may very well be labored out for Coates and Abrams’ Superman if the circumstances are proper.

In a current interview with io9, Gunn defined that regardless of their being primarily based on the identical character, Superman: Legacy and Coates and Abrams’ would-be movie “are completely unrelated,” however he described the mission as “an thrilling film” from what he’s heard internally.

“I do know that Chantal Nong, who’s the manager on that mission, is extraordinarily enthusiastic about it,” Gunn mentioned. “So if it is available in and it’s nice, which I haven’t learn the script, and if the timing is correct, that would completely occur. That’s completely unrelated. It will be an Elseworlds story like Joker.”

Gunn’s “if”s and the truth that he hasn’t learn the script but don’t precisely encourage probably the most confidence that there’s actual momentum behind the Black Superman movie coming collectively.  However his explicitly name-dropping the “Elseworlds” imprint — DC’s comics set in far-flung continuities and realities — at a time when the studio’s going all in on the multiverse by means of The Flash feels noteworthy due to what it might port for DC Studios’ going ahead.

Up till this level, DC’s actually simply relied on followers to determine for themselves which of its films are supposed to be canonical and which aren’t. However establishing an Elseworlds movie presence may very well be a means for the studio to extra successfully telegraph to audiences how issues like Joker: Folie à Deux and Max’s The Penguin present are supposed to suit into the image alongside the brand new Robert Pattinson-free Batman movie DC can also be engaged on.

Elseworlds films is also a means for The Rock and Henry Cavill to reprise their roles as Black Adam and Clark Kent the way in which they’ve implied may occur, but when that finally ends up being the case, one hopes that Coates and Abrams’ Superman finally ends up on the manufacturing slate as effectively.