The Next Batman Movie Has Found Its Director

Is the film world prepared for one more Batman?

It’s already obtained Robert Pattinson enjoying the Batman of The Batman, which is getting a sequel in just a few years. It’s additionally obtained Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton in The Flash, which is simply out in theaters. And it’s about to get a brand new Batman and a brand new Robin, in a movie titled The Brave and the Bold, which will probably be a part of the brand new DC Movie Universe that’s being overseen by James Gunn and Peter Safran.

The movie will supposedly be drawn from latest Batman comics about Bruce Wayne and his son Damien, who turns into the 5 particular person to say the mantle of Robin, the Boy Wonder. (Damien is a bit completely different from the opposite 4, as a result of he was raised from beginning to be a lethal ninja, and he’s additionally the grandson of Ra’s al Ghul.) The movie continues to be in early improvement and doesn’t have a script or a author. It does, nonetheless, have a director — one with some important Batman expertise of late.

According to Variety, The Flash director Andy Muschietti will helm The Brave and the Bold. Here was what Gunn and Safran needed to say concerning the information:

We noticed The Flash; even earlier than taking the reins at DC Studios, and knew we had been within the fingers of not solely a visionary director however a large DC fan. It’s a powerful movie – humorous, emotional, thrilling – and Andy’s affinity and fervour for these characters and this world simply resonates by each body. So, when it got here time to discover a director for ‘The Brave and the Bold,’ there was actually just one alternative. Luckily, Andy stated sure. Barbara signed on to provide with us and we had been on our manner.

 

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Prior to The Flash, Muschietti directed each components of the latest big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s It. He additionally directed the horror movie Mama in 2013. But The Flash not solely offers him some DC credibility — it offers him loads of follow directing Batmen. Which would seemingly serve him effectively right here.