Whereas there was a time when Zach Cregger was greatest identified for his comedic work, notably on the TV present The Whitest Children U’ Know, lately he’s churning out extra intense fare as a filmmaker. I’m after all referring to his motion pictures Barbarian and Weapons, the latter of which opens on the 2025 launch schedule in July in only a few weeks, to not point out him helming the Resident Evil reboot. Now there’s a rumor circulating that Cregger is seeking to make a particular type of upcoming DC film, and I’m down for the concept he’s allegedly provide you with.
Again in 2022, Zach Cregger talked about that he’d written a film that “takes place within the DC Universe” and is a “Batman-adjacent factor,” even though he’s not “usually” into superhero motion pictures. He later described this script because the “neatest thing” he’s ever written, and now scooper Daniel Richtman (by way of ComicBookMovie) is claiming that Cregger has written a Joker and Harley Quinn film. Richtman added that whereas he’s undecided if Cregger has pitched his facet to DC Studios co-head James Gunn, he intends to take action.
I don’t even have to know any particular plot particulars proper now, I’m completely sport to see what sort of story Zach Cregger has crafted for the Clown Prince of Crime and his cheery moll. Admittedly, it’s ironic for me to say contemplating that I really feel like The Joker has been overdone in movie and TV as of late. I’m not a fan of the Joaquin Phoenix-led Joker motion pictures, and it’s anticipated that we’ll see extra of Barry Keoghan’s Joker in Matt Reeves’ The Batman saga.
However with the proper of imaginative and prescient, even a personality like Joker can have recent life breathed into them, and I feel Zach Cregger could make that occur. That stated, I do hope that no matter he’s written can match inside the DC Universe shared continuity somewhat than The Batman franchise. I need to see a extra comics correct Joker and Harley Quinn paired collectively following the extra life like take that Joker: Folie à Deux delivered.
Assuming that James Gunn meets with Zach Cregger and decides to greenlight the undertaking, this may be the second DCU film centered on a Batman villain. Clayface is about as one of many 2026 film releases and can star Tom Rhys Harries because the shapeshifting antagonist. That film has been described as an R-rated “Hollywood horror story,” and with Zach Cregger having written the script, it’s a robust wager it’s additionally going to be an R-rated horror story.
After which, after all, there’s the DCU’s Batman film, titled The Courageous and the Daring, which was introduced as a part of the franchise’s opening Gods and Monsters slate in early 2023. It nonetheless doesn’t have a launch date although, so there’s a world the place we might see a Joker and Harley Quinn film earlier than The Courageous and the Daring. In the meantime, Weapons opens in theaters on August 8.