The DCU and Robert Pattinson’s Batman universe are separate (for now), but one of the stars of Peacemaker Season 2 has just proved why they should merge.
If James Gunn is to be believed, he’s “very involved” in the development of The Brave and the Bold, a movie that will introduce the flagship franchise’s version of the Caped Crusader. Crucially, it won’t be Pattinson.
However, between The Batman Part 2’s delays and how fans have embraced David Corenswet’s Superman, there is undoubtedly a hunger online to see the two heroes appear together on-screen.
Will that ever happen? It remains to be seen, but Sean Gunn has summed up exactly why it would work.
Peacemaker star’s favorite thing about the DCU makes it perfect for Batman crossover
Speaking to The Wrap, Gunn (who plays Maxwell Lord in the new season) explained why he’s so excited to join the DCU and where it could go in the future.
“What I get most excited about is the idea of all of these things living in the same world, but having freedom to be the unique vision of whatever storyteller is telling the story,” he said.
“So, all these different stories live in the same world, but they have different creators and they can be different genres even.”
Look at what’s next: Lanterns, a TV show said to be in the vein of True Detective; Supergirl, a dark, cosmic adventure that won’t just be like Superman; and Clayface, a full-on, R-rated horror movie written by Mike Flanagan.
These are all incredibly distinct projects that take place in the same universe – and, yet, people who don’t want Pattinson’s Batman in the DCU will argue that it’s too different. That’s exactly why their worlds should merge; synergy doesn’t make a crossover interesting.
“You may have something that’s a little more horror-bent or a little more dramatic-bent, in addition to the action movies and the more superhero kind of fare, and I love that,” Gunn continued.
“It makes it similar to comics, in that comics have the freedom to have their own unique voice within the series that they’re in, but also those characters have a center that you don’t always want to deviate. So I’m really excited to see how it all looks after a few years.”
Other fans have made the same observation. “And with that I renew the call to integrate Reeves’ Batman. It would fit in SO well,” one wrote, while several others have posted GIFs of Pattinson’s version of the character.
Remember, Reeves isn’t necessarily opposed to the idea. “It really comes down to whether or not it makes sense,” he earlier told MTV News.
Also, to everyone who says they can’t imagine Pattinson’s Batman fighting metahumans or handling Superman-level threats, we’ve seen him in one movie. As for Reeves’ Gotham, we also spent some time there in The Penguin, but there’s still a lot we don’t know about the people (villains, heroes, and otherwise) who live there.
James Gunn has repeatedly insisted that he wanted to give Reeves as much time as he could to write The Batman Part 2, almost like he’s giving him the “freedom to be the unique vision of the storyteller telling the story.”
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