Matt Reeve’s Arkham Asylum Spinoff Series Is Set in the New DCU: James Gunn

In 2022, it was announced that The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson, will have its very own cinematic universe. Following this claim,The Penguinseries, following Colin Farrell’s Oswald Cobbleplot, was announced to expand into the world ofThe Batman.Another news came to light talking about how Matt Reeves, the director behind The Batman (2022) and the upcoming Batman 2 is also working on an Arkham Asylum series. Not a lot of information was available about this spinoff at that time. However, now, James Gunn has confirmed that the Matt Reeves’ Arkham Asylum spinoff series will be set in the new DCU.James Gunn says Matt Reeves'#ArkhamAsylumseries is now set in the DCUpic.twitter.com/yjLkWGaqXg— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave)December 17, 2023

James Gunn says Matt Reeves'#ArkhamAsylumseries is now set in the DCUpic.twitter.com/yjLkWGaqXg— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave)December 17, 2023

Earlier, the speculations for this series assumed that it might revolve around the inmates of Arkham Asylum along withThe Riddlerseen inThe Batmanand may have a possible appearance ofBarry Keoghan’s Joker.

Recently, some DC fans took some questions to James Gunn viaThreads.Gunn responded to these questions and confirmed that theArkham Asylum Series will be a part of the DCU along with Superman: Legacy and Creature Commandos.Source: Threads/James Gunn

This simply means that a lot of new characters are coming our way. This also pretty much confirms the fact that the villains in Matt Reeve’s universe can make their way to DCU. Now, the other possibility is that we might see characters such as Poison Ivy or Mr. Freeze in this series. I highly doubt that they would bring in characters from The Batman Universe because that would break the boundary between DC Elseworld and the DCU.

However, there is not a lot of information available about this series so we can’t say anything for sure. TheArkham Asylumseries does not have a release date yet but it will surely be afterThe Penguin’srelease in 2024.

Shashank Shakya

Shashank Shakya is an Entertainment Writer and has completed his Bachelors(Honours) with English Literature. He is a published writer. He boasts incomparable knowledge about the Marvel and DC universes along with other branches of entertainment with substantial experience in the field of writing.

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