Warner Bros. has moved up the release date of “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” from May 6, 2016 to March 25, 2016, as reported Wednesday by Variety. Along with that announcement, Deadline reports that WB has a slate of 9 films that could be all or majority (we’re thinking two of these could potentially be the new JK Rowling Potter franchise), DC Comics based. Check below for the lineup, including where rumored Aquaman and Wonder Woman movies may fall.
“Batman v Superman” has taken the release date of the Gerard Butler movie “Geostorm,” which now has an unspecified 2016 release date.
The DC movies that are expected to fill this ambitious pipeline include Zack Snyder‘s “Justice League,” standalone spinoffs for Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman and Jason Momoa’s Aquaman, as well as a “Shazam/Black Adam” movie starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and a “Sandman” movie that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is producing and may star in.
Meanwhile, Warner Bros. has traditionally seen November as a launch pad for its “Harry Potter” movies, and it’s possible that the two “event films” referenced below are sequels to J.K. Rowling‘s spinoff “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” which WB will release on Nov. 18, 2016. Several months ago, the New York Times reported that Warner Bros. wanted to turn “Fantastic Beasts” into a trilogy of “megamovies.”
Later on Wednesday, Warner Bros. announced it will release untitled animated movies on May 25, 2018 and May 24, 2019.
The rest of the slate looks like this:
Untitled DC Film – 08/05/16
Untitled DC Film – 06/23/17
Untitled DC Film – 11/17/17
Untitled DC Film – 03/23/18
Untitled Warner Animated Film – 05/25/18
Untitled DC Film – 07/27/18
Untitled WB Event Film – 11/16/18
Untitled DC Film – 04/05/19
Untitled Warner Animated Film – 05/24/19
Untitled DC Film – 06/14/19
Untitled DC Film – 04/03/20
Untitled DC Film – 06/19/20
Untitled WB Event Film – 11/20/20
Above coverage courtesy of TheWrap. Surely one of these slots is for the rumored Flash/Green Lantern movie right? Or perhaps we’ll only see a lantern in a Justice League movie like Hulk in Avengers? I think we could learn to live with that.