Despite James Gunn 's expansive DCU slate coming down the line, as spearheaded by his Superman feature with David Corenswet , excitement has yet to wane — or would it be Wayne? — for Matt Reeves' still developing universe surrounding Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader. While its extensive delay was reported earlier this year, The Batman: Part II is still on the way, as is Max’s Penguin series with Colin Ferrell. This version of Gotham City’s future became slightly more limited, however, with the news that the Arkham Asylum streaming series is no longer part of DC’s upcoming TV slate .
But while many fans quickly took that update as an indication that The Batman sequel won’t happen , I came away from that somewhat disappointing news with quite a bit of excitement. Not because I’m hoping for this non-DCU canon to fail or anything; on the contrary, I’m now fully ready to accept upwards of 12 different Batman iterations existing at the same time, and sincerely hope Reeves’ universe continues expanding. Rather, I’m more grateful that this specific avenue of Arkham-focused development is being retooled, and we’ll get into those reasons below.
When news first broke that Max would be the future home of TV spinoffs from Matt Reeves ' The Batman franchise, the first project was set to focus on Gotham City PD, with or without Jeffrey Wright's James Gordon at the helm. One of the major influences for this project would have been Gotham Central , the comic series cr.
