WBD’s Parallel Batman Projects Will Just Confuse General Audiences

Warner Bros. has confirmed that Robert Pattinson’s The Batman series will continue to run alongside the Batman movies in James Gunn’s rebooted DCU, meaning audiences will have to follow two separate Batman stories, which could get needlessly complicated. Matt Reeves is hard at work on The Batman Part II – or, at least, he was before the WGA went on strike for fairer wages and A.I.-era protections – while Gunn and his team at DC Studios are also developing a new Batman movie called The Brave and the Bold. Rather than integrating the Reeves-verse into the wider DCU, Gunn is allowing The Batman series to continue as a separate property under the “DC Elseworlds” label while he introduces his own take on Batman into the sprawling superhero-infested ensemble of the mainline DCU. Diehard comic book fans will be delighted to follow two concurrent Batman franchises, but general audiences might get confused by the simultaneous continuities.