“When James Gunn and Peter Safran took on the challenge of reinventing the DC cinematic universe, they inherited two curveballs.
“There were two franchises, at the time, that had established their own levels of success, and were deemed “Elseworld” projects – existing outside of the canon that Gunn and Safran were going to establish.
“One was Todd Phillips’ Joker, which effectively ended its run after the ending scene of Joker: Folie a Deux. But the other was Matt Reeves’ The Batman, which has a sequel on the horizon, and just expanded out with the critically acclaimed HBO series The Penguin. What is Gunn going to do with it?”
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