6 Upcoming DC Movies That Are Bringing Comic Book Storylines to the Big Screen, From 'Clayface' to 'Dynamic Duo'
Superman is the first movie in the new universe, with Supergirl following in summer 2026
Batman will be introduced in The Brave and the Bold, featuring the superhero's son, DamianIt's a bird, it's a plane, it's a new day for the DC Universe.
In January 2023, DC Studios co-chairs and co-CEOs, James Gunn and producer Peter Safran, announced their plans for the first part of the new rebooted DC Universe, which they are calling "Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters."
'DC Studios is unprecedented,' Safran said at a press conference, according to Variety. 'It is a standalone production entity and studio. It is the first time that everything DC related — film, television, live-action, animation, gaming — is all centralized under one creative vision, that of James and myself.'
In a June 2025 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Gunn elaborated on their "master plan" for "Gods and Monsters. "The most important thing is the specific stories, but there is also a much bigger story that we're telling that will take a little bit longer to tell," he explained.
Technically, the first installment in the "Gods and Monsters" chapter was the 2024 Max animated series, Creature Commandos, but the latest Superman will be the first movie in the new era.
Superman will be audiences' introduction to the new DC Universe, but what about the other DC movies planned? Will Batman be reborn in a new film, and which other classic comic book characters are headed for the big screen?
Here's the latest on the DC Universe movies in the works.
It's fitting for the first superhero to kick off DC's new era, with Superman flying into theaters on July 11.
The latest take on the Man of Steel stars David Corenswet as Superman, Rachel Brosnahan as intrepid Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult terrorizing Metropolis as Lex Luthor.
Superman isn't the only superhero featured in the candy-colored action film, written and directed by Gunn. The Last Son of Krypton will be joined by other superfriends, including Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern, Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl, Edi Gathegi as Mister Terrific and Anthony Carrigan as Metamorpho.
In June 2025, Gunn told EW he wanted to tell a Superman story "about someone who was truly good in a world that doesn't value goodness, in a world that makes fun of basic kindness and basic human values."
"The fact that he can fly and lift buildings and shoot laser beams out of his eyes was really secondary to who he was as a person and what he stood for," he added.
Superman won't be the only Kryptonian lighting up the sky. His cousin, Supergirl, will be starring in her own story, the second movie in the new chapter of the DC Universe.
Supergirl will be based on the Tom King 2021 comic series, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, with Milly Alcock as the titular superhero Kara Zor-El. Other cast members include Eve Ridley as Ruthye Mary Knolle and Matthias Schoenaerts as the villain, Krem of the Yellow Hills.
Last year, in December 2024, it was announced that Jason Momoa would join the cast as the violent intergalactic bounty hunter, Lobo.
Most recently, Gunn teased that even though Superman and Supergirl are both from Krypton, they had different childhoods.
"He had parents who loved him in an easy-going upbringing, and it makes him the least dysfunctional of superheroes in so many ways," he explained in a June 2025 interview with ComicBook.com. "And Supergirl, especially the DCU Supergirl, she's kind of a mess. I mean, she's, she's had a real issues growing up."
Gunn continued, "And it is based on the comic where she watched person after person after person dying in front of her as her piece of the planet disintegrated."
Supergirl is scheduled to hit theaters on June 26, 2026.
Tom Rhys Harries stars as Batman's malleable menace, Clayface.
Director James Watkins will helm the movie centered around the gruesome Gotham City villain. Per The Hollywood Reporter, it will follow a "B-movie actor who becomes a walking piece of clay after injecting himself with a substance in an attempt to keep himself relevant."
Clayface is expected to premiere in theaters on Sept. 11, 2026.
Dynamic Duo will be a Robin reunion, as two of Batman's former sidekicks, Dick Grayson (who later suits up as Nightwing) and Jason Todd (who becomes superhero vigilante Red Hood), team up to battle some bad guys.
The feature film will be 'a mix of animation, puppetry, and CGI," according to an October 2024 social media post by Gunn. "This is something special."
That same month, Variety reported that it "will depict how the friendship between Grayson and Todd as youths becomes tested by their diverging ideas for what their future should be."
Dynamic Duo will be released in theaters on June 30, 2028.
The Authority is a superhero team, and one of its members, the Engineer (María Gabriela de Faría), will appear in the new Superman movie as one of Lex Luthor's henchmen.
The project was originally announced by Gunn in January 2023, and it has been slowly moving forward since.
More recently, Gunn was asked by Blavity TV in June 2025 about the Engineer appearing in Superman, to which he replied, "I just really like the Engineer's power set."
'I thought her power set was good for fighting Superman,' he added.
When asked about de Faría reprising her Engineer role for The Authority film, Gunn said, "It could happen," adding that the movie is "not something that's going especially quickly right now, but it could happen for sure."
The Brave and the Bold is based on the 2006 comic book arc by Grant Morrison, where Batman learns he has a son, Damian, whose mother is Batman's former flame, Talia al Ghul, daughter of Ra's al Ghul.
Damian joins his father to protect Gotham City as Batman's newest Robin.
In a January 2023 interview with Collider, Gunn said that The Brave and the Bold "is the introduction of the DCU's Batman. It is not Robert Pattinson. It is not Ben Affleck."
"This is a story of Damian Wayne, who is Batman's actual son, who we didn't know existed for the first eight to 10 years of his life. He was raised as a little murderer and assassin," he continued. "He's my favorite Robin, based on the Grant Morrison comic books run, which is one of my favorite Batman runs, and we are putting that all together right now."
Producer Safran teased that the film would will "feature other members of the extended bat family. Just because we feel like they've been left out of the Batman stories in the theater for far too long."
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