The Dark Knight Couldn’t Happen Under The DCU’s Elseworlds Plan

More than 15 years after it was released, it is safe to say that Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy still holds up as one of the greatest comic book movie franchises of all time – but it is one that could not happen with the new DC Universe Elseworlds plan. The DCU will finally get underway with the release of Creature Commandos, then on the big screen with Superman: Legacy, and with these projects comes a new shared universe of comic book movies. This isn’t unfamiliar ground for DC movies, as their first attempt with the DCEU comprised characters that all fed into each other’s stories – but The Dark Knight trilogy was not a part of this.