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Every DC movie release fix for 2022 and beyond

A look ahead at the Wink, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and more

By Updated Oct 16, 2021, 5:17pm EDT

The world of DC comic books comes to life in Warner Bros. expansive slate of films, TV series, and blithe shows based on the legendary superhero setting, with more added each day. From Batman to Wonder Adult female, the Suicide Team to Aquaman, Shazam to the Flash, yous never know what the side by side premiere might bring you lot.

Some of these titles are actively in the works, with production wrapping up and trailers prepare to run. Others are are on the books but non the calendar, yet. Still, the next fourth dimension Curiosity snaps its fingers and puts xviii more movies on the MCU release agenda, look DC's listing to double. Starting in 2022, Warner Bros. plans to have 4 DC-based movies in theaters every year, with new television serial popping up on the regular. To quote DC Films president Walter Hamada: "With every moving-picture show that we're looking at now, we are thinking, 'What's the potential Max spinoff?'"

With that in mind, here'south the latest of what we know about every new DC comic movie and show.

[Ed. notation: This story only contains updates on Warner Bros.' DC projects, non the latest in CW/Arrowverse release dates, which is a whole other asunder can of worms.]

2022

DC League of Super-Pets: July 29

The CG-blithe DC League of Super-Pets movie will hit theaters in the summer of 2022. Starring Dwayne Johnson as Krypto the Super-Domestic dog and a slew of other celebrities as animals endowed with superpowers, the animated feature from directors Jared Stern (Dark-green Eggs and Ham) and Sam Levine (Wreck-It Ralph) should give kids something to chew on until they're old enough for the edgier stuff.

Blackness Adam: Oct 21

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has been fastened to the Black Adam proper noun since 2008 and fans have been eagerly awaiting Johnson'south take on the character. A Blackness Adam stand-alone motion-picture show was announced in Jan 2017. Black Adam is one of Shazam'southward arch-nemeses, but in recent comic developments, the grapheme has turned into more than of an antihero.

In 2020, Warner Bros. revealed that Black Adam will also be an introduction to several members of the Justice Society, and older incarnation of the Justice League, including Atom-Smasher (Noah Centino), Hawkman (Aldis Hodge), Cyclone (Quintessa Swindell), and Doctor Fate (Pierce Brosnan).

Shazam!: Fury of the Gods: Dec 21

LTR Jack Dylan Grazer, Meagan Good, Ross Butler, Zachary Levi, Grace Fulton, and D.J. Cotrona in costume as the Shazam family, on the set of Shazam! Fury of the Gods.

Shazam! screenwriter Henry Gayden will return to write the script for the project, with manager David F. Sandberg and producer Peter Safran too expected to return given the success of the beginning movie. Zachary Levi and Asher Angel, who played Shazam and Billy Breastwork, respectively, are expected to return along with the majority of the cast from Shazam!. And maybe even Sinbad? OK probably not, merely Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu are on board as the villains, a trio of aboriginal Greek goddesses.

Undated: Batgirl

After Joss Whedon gave up on script evolution for Batgirl, the production entered a kind of limbo, until Birds of Prey author Christina Hodson took a crack at it. Now the picture show has a star — Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon — and a abode on HBO Max. DC debuted a first look at the movie and its bandage and coiffure at DC FanDome in 2021.

Undated: The Sandman

Tom Sturridge as Dream in Sandman on Netflix

Netflix's TV adaptation of The Sandman, the legendary comics serial written by Neil Gaiman and brought to life past a variety of groundbreaking artists, is well on its way, starring Tom Sturridge as the eponymous lord of dreams, and, amid other actors, Gwendoline Christie as the literal devil.

2023

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom: Mar. 17

Jason Mamoa behind-the-scenes of Aquaman 2

With the success of the first Aquaman, it fabricated sense for a sequel to swim its mode into beingness. The start motion picture, while perhaps a bit cliché, was fun as hell and a stunning visual spectacle. A sequel was all only a foregone decision, and Aquaman ii was greenlit in Feb. 2019.

Director James Wan dropped a boatload of sequel teases for in Aquaman's mid-credits scene. Despite taking a nasty fall off of a cliff, Black Manta (a.m.a. David Kane) is surprisingly still okay. Dr. Stephen Shin, played by Randall Park (Always Be My Possibly) has secured Black Manta'south arrange. The two strike a deal — Shin volition assist Kane get his revenge on Aquaman if Kane leads him to Atlantis. While it's unclear if Park will return for Aquaman two, Wan told Polygon in Dec. 2018 that he hoped the histrion would return.

The Flash: June 23

Ezra Miller as The Flash of two dimensions and the new Supergirl Sasha Calle stand in the batcave

The solo Flash movie has seen its own share of speedy shifts betwixt directors, producers, and screenwriters and release dates. But at the moment, Ezra Miller is gear up to star in a film that takes some plot elements from DC Comics' Flashpoint storyline, bouncing betwixt different timelines in the DC Universe. It volition star both multiple Flashes and multiple Batmans, with Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton bot set to reprise their roles.

Blue Protrude: Aug. 18

DC'south first adaptation of Blue Beetle will bring the character'southward third incarnation, Jaime Reyes, to the screen, marking the comic volume outfit's start Latinx-lead film. Created by Keith Giffen, John Rogers, and Cully Hamner in the 2006 miniseries Infinite Crisis, Jaime Reyes is a Mexican-American teenager with a pretty gnarly superhero origin story: he finds an alien artifact called the Scarab that attaches itself to his spine while he sleeps, giving him creepy-absurd body armor and an array of superpowers that he is quite bad at using. His cinematic vehicle is expected to be directed past Puerto Rican filmmaker Affections Manuel Soto (Charm City Kings).

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An Amanda Waller-based Peacemaker spinoff

Peacemaker volition render for a 2nd flavor, but that isn't the only affair Warner Bros. has in the pipe for the extended group of Suicide Squad characters. James Gunn is developing an Amanda Waller-axial evidence, with Viola Davis in negotiations to return.

The Dead Male child Detectives

Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland, teen ghosts, observe the thieves they are trying to stop in Dead Boy Detectives #1 (2014).

Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland are dead, they're boys, and they're detectives. Together with their friend Crystal, a teenage medium, they are the Dead Male child Detective Bureau, recurring characters from DC's Vertigo comics line who originated in The Sandman. After a guest appearance in the third season of Doom Patrol, Warner Bros. has ordered an 8-episode full season of a Dead Boy Detectives TV series for HBO Max.

Wonder Woman 3

Gal Gadot as Diana flipping her lasso of truth in the White House in Wonder Woman 1984

Wonder Adult female has spent a significant time in the past; betwixt her get-go DC Extended Universe solo film, Wonder Woman taking identify during Earth War II and Wonder Woman 1984 taking place in ... well, the 1980s. Wonder Adult female manager and co-author Patty Jenkins has stated that the tertiary film in the serial volition bring the heroine into the present.

"I have pretty clear plans for Wonder Woman iii," Jenkins told Vanity Fair in January. "Whether I [direct] it or non, I see how her arc should end in my incarnation of Wonder Woman. I take great passion for that."

And it's definitely happening: Later the first weekend on HBO Max, Warner Bros. Pictures immediately greenlit the threequel. Jenkins appear that she's actively at work at the film during a conversation with Idiot box'south Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, at the 2021 DC FanDome.

The Batman 2

Robert Pattinson as Batman in The Batman.

The success of The Batman made a sequel inevitable, and Warner Bros. signed Matt Reeves and the remainder of the acting crew for The Batman ii in 2019. Reeves has mentioned a number of possibilities for the villains and plot of the film, but as far as we know, nothing is yet set in rock.

The Penguin

In the meantime, Reeves is working on 2 The Batman spin-off TV serial for HBO Max, the most adult of which is The Penguin, a series all nigh Colin Ferrell's hook-nosed mobster. An untitled series about Arkham Aviary is also in the planning.

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Source: https://www.polygon.com/movies/22352001/new-dc-movies-release-schedule