‘Black Canary,’ ‘Green Lantern’ Still Safe Among DC Drama At WB

Games ‘Black Canary,’ ‘Green Lantern’ Still Safe Among DC Drama At WB Paul Tassi Senior Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. New! Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories.

Got it! Aug 10, 2022, 09:44am EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Black Canary WB The shockwaves of Batgirl being scrapped after being completed are still being felt, and for a minute there, it felt like there was no DC project that was actively safe from the new management at WB Discovery. Well, at least for now, it seems like the future plans for DC may not be quite as disruptive as initially predicted, at least for some already in-the-works projects. While rumors swirl that DC Films’ President Walter Hamada almost quit over Batgirl, and will likely leave after Black Adam, some old projects appear to be safe under the new regime, for now.

Those include Black Canary, which is Jurnee Smollett’s solo feature for the character first introduced in Harley Quinn’s Birds of Prey movie, making her technically part of the DCEU tracing its roots back to the original Snyder Man of Steel/Batman V Superman/Justice League trilogy. WB has confirmed that the HBO Max project is still in the works and that has not changed even in this post-Batgirl landscape. HOLLYWOOD, CA – NOVEMBER 12: Actor Finn Wittrock arrives at the AFI FEST 2015 Presented By Audi .

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(Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) FilmMagic Also still safe, apparently, is the long-gestating Green Lantern project from head of the almost-dead Arrowverse, Greg Berlanti, though it’s unclear what universe it may or may not be a part of when it arrives. Green Lantern recently cast Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine as Guy Gardner and Alan Scott respectively. This has drawn some measure of controversy given that we already did a Hal Jordan Green Lantern with Ryan Reynolds, and this is two more white guy iterations of the character, when John Stewart has yet to be realized, and was only teased in the Arrowverse and cut Snyder Justice League sequences.

Berlanti is “taking the time with the effects-heavy show in order to get it right,” which is probably a good idea, considering Berlanti also co-wrote the not-good Reynolds Green Lantern in 2011, and the effects were part of why that was considered a poor showing (and of course, the script). MORE FOR YOU ‘Demon Slayer’ Season 2 Finally Has An Actual 2021 Release Date Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Not A Sure Thing, Says Director ‘Genshin Impact’ Still Refuses To Increase Anniversary Rewards, Despite Fan Outcry As for what else is fully safe, that remains unclear, as projects like Blue Beetle and Supergirl don’t seem to quite have the level of “safety confirmation” as the above projects right now, and no doubt a lot remains in flux. We heard before this that the new season of Peacemaker was happening as expected, and supposedly Harley Quinn season 4 is already in the works, as is its Kite-Man spin-off.

But for the larger, longer term DC plans, it’s unclear what shift in direction we might get if Hamada leaves, when reportedly he was gearing up to attempt to do a Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline in the long term. The fate of the DCEU remains nebulous, even as projects within it continue to exist. It’s going to be a long road ahead for DC, but as of now, there does not appear to be any sort of terribly clear master plan as to where things are going under new management, even if they are extolling some sort of ten-year, MCU-like plan.

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