NEED TO KNOW
- The rebooted DC Universe is being known as “Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters”
- Superman is the primary film within the new universe, with Supergirl following in summer time 2026
- Batman might be launched in The Courageous and the Daring, that includes the superhero’s son, Damian
It is a chook, it is a aircraft, it is a new day for the DC Universe.
In January 2023, DC Studios co-chairs and co-CEOs, James Gunn and producer Peter Safran, introduced their plans for the primary a part of the brand new rebooted DC Universe, which they’re calling “Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters.”
“DC Studios is unprecedented,” Safran mentioned at a press convention, in accordance with Selection. “It’s a standalone manufacturing entity and studio. It’s the first time that the whole lot DC associated — movie, tv, live-action, animation, gaming — is all centralized beneath one artistic imaginative and prescient, that of James and myself.”
In a June 2025 interview with Leisure Weekly, Gunn elaborated on their “grasp plan” for “Gods and Monsters. “An important factor is the particular tales, however there’s additionally a a lot greater story that we’re telling that can take a little bit bit longer to inform,” he defined.
Technically, the primary installment within the “Gods and Monsters” chapter was the 2024 Max animated collection, Creature Commandos, however the newest Superman would be the first film within the new period.
Superman might be audiences’ introduction to the brand new DC Universe, however what in regards to the different DC motion pictures deliberate? Will Batman be reborn in a brand new movie, and which different traditional comedian e-book characters are headed for the massive display screen?
This is the newest on the DC Universe motion pictures within the works.
Superman
It is becoming for the primary superhero to kick off DC’s new period, with Superman flying into theaters on July 11.
The newest tackle the Man of Metal stars David Corenswet as Superman, Rachel Brosnahan as intrepid Day by day Planet reporter Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult terrorizing Metropolis as Lex Luthor.
Superman is not the one superhero featured within the candy-colored motion movie, written and directed by Gunn. The Final Son of Krypton might be joined by different superfriends, together with Nathan Fillion as Inexperienced Lantern, Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl, Edi Gathegi as Mister Terrific and Anthony Carrigan as Metamorpho.
In June 2025, Gunn informed EW he needed to inform a Superman story “about somebody who was really good in a world that does not worth goodness, in a world that makes enjoyable of fundamental kindness and fundamental human values.”
“The truth that he can fly and elevate buildings and shoot laser beams out of his eyes was actually secondary to who he was as an individual and what he stood for,” he added.
Supergirl
Superman will not be the one Kryptonian lighting up the sky. His cousin, Supergirl, might be starring in her personal story, the second film within the new chapter of the DC Universe.
Supergirl might be based mostly on the Tom King 2021 comedian collection, Supergirl: Lady of Tomorrow, with Milly Alcock because the titular superhero Kara Zor-El. Different solid members embrace Eve Ridley as Ruthye Mary Knolle and Matthias Schoenaerts because the villain, Krem of the Yellow Hills.
Final yr, in December 2024, it was introduced that Jason Momoa would be a part of the solid because the violent intergalactic bounty hunter, Lobo.
Most not too long ago, Gunn teased that though Superman and Supergirl are each from Krypton, they’d completely different childhoods.
“He had dad and mom who beloved him in an easy-going upbringing, and it makes him the least dysfunctional of superheroes in so some ways,” he defined in a June 2025 interview with ComicBook.com. “And Supergirl, particularly the DCU Supergirl, she’s form of a large number. I imply, she’s, she’s had an actual points rising up.”
Gunn continued, “And it’s based mostly on the comedian the place she watched individual after individual after individual dying in entrance of her as her piece of the planet disintegrated.”
Supergirl is scheduled to hit theaters on June 26, 2026.
Clayface
Tom Rhys Harries stars as Batman’s malleable menace, Clayface.
Director James Watkins will helm the film centered across the ugly Gotham Metropolis villain. Per The Hollywood Reporter, it’ll observe a “B-movie actor who turns into a strolling piece of clay after injecting himself with a substance in an try and hold himself related.”
Clayface is anticipated to premiere in theaters on Sept. 11, 2026.
Dynamic Duo
Dynamic Duo might be a Robin reunion, as two of Batman’s former sidekicks, Dick Grayson (who later fits up as Nightwing) and Jason Todd (who turns into superhero vigilante Purple Hood), group as much as battle some unhealthy guys.
The characteristic movie might be “a mixture of animation, puppetry, and CGI,” in accordance with an October 2024 social media publish by Gunn. “That is one thing particular.”
That very same month, Selection reported that it “will depict how the friendship between Grayson and Todd as youths turns into examined by their diverging concepts for what their future ought to be.”
Dynamic Duo might be launched in theaters on June 30, 2028.
The Authority
The Authority is a superhero group, and considered one of its members, the Engineer (María Gabriela de Faría), will seem within the new Superman film as considered one of Lex Luthor’s henchmen.
The mission was initially introduced by Gunn in January 2023, and it has been slowly shifting ahead since.
Extra not too long ago, Gunn was requested by Blavity TV in June 2025 in regards to the Engineer showing in Superman, to which he replied, “I simply actually just like the Engineer’s energy set.”
“I assumed her energy set was good for combating Superman,” he added.
When requested about de Faría reprising her Engineer function for The Authority movie, Gunn mentioned, “It may occur,” including that the film is “not one thing that’s going particularly shortly proper now, however it may occur for certain.”
The Courageous and the Daring
The Courageous and the Daring is predicated on the 2006 comedian e-book arc by Grant Morrison, the place Batman learns he has a son, Damian, whose mom is Batman’s former flame, Talia al Ghul, daughter of Ra’s al Ghul.
Damian joins his father to guard Gotham Metropolis as Batman’s latest Robin.
In a January 2023 interview with Collider, Gunn mentioned that The Courageous and the Daring “is the introduction of the DCU’s Batman. It’s not Robert Pattinson. It’s not Ben Affleck.”
“It is a story of Damian Wayne, who’s Batman’s precise son, who we did not know existed for the primary eight to 10 years of his life. He was raised as a little bit assassin and murderer,” he continued. “He is my favourite Robin, based mostly on the Grant Morrison comedian books run, which is considered one of my favourite Batman runs, and we’re placing that every one collectively proper now.”
Producer Safran teased that the movie would will “characteristic different members of the prolonged bat household. Simply because we really feel like they have been overlooked of the Batman tales within the theater for a lot too lengthy.”
