In James Gunn we trust (at least, most of us do), but he has quite the road ahead of him if he wants to square up with the DCU’s biggest comic film rival that isn’t the MCU. Indeed, Matt Reeves’ The Batman was far and away the best DC adaptation we got in 2022, and fans all over the world are waiting patiently to see where the filmmaker takes the franchise next.
We already know a bit about the next venture, which will be an HBO Max limited series titled The Penguin, in which Colin Farrell will reprise the eponymous character that he first portrayed in The Batman. The soon-to-be crime boss played a relatively minor role in the grand scheme of things, but that didn’t prevent Farrell from putting out a particularly eye-catching performance relative to his screentime.