Every DC Studios Movie and HBO Max Series Announced Through 2028

On HBO Max: August 21, 2025

Superman may be the paragon of the DC Universe. But where does that leave Peacemaker? John Cena returns for season 2 of the hit DC series that Gunn created after The Suicide Squad and wrote through the pandemic. Three years after its 2022 premiere, Peacemaker season 2 picks up with Christopher Smith trying to be a proper superhero despite the world not accepting his talents.

In a video interview with ScreenRant, James Gunn said the DCU is leading to a major event that will be teased in Peacemaker season 2.

On HBO Max: 2026

In brightest day, in blackest night ... two men solve a murder.

Following the reintroduction of the Green Lantern mythos through Nathan Fillion's comical Guy Gardner in Superman, two other Green Lanterns will partake in an entirely different story: Lanterns.

Slated for streaming on HBO Max in 2026, Lanterns is a mystery series that follows Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) and Jon Stewart (Aaron Pierre)—two of the most popular characters to have held the mantle of Earth's Green Lantern—as they investigate a murder in Nebraska.

While Green Lantern stories are typically imaginative sci-fi, Lanterns is taking direct inspiration from crime shows like True Detective and Slow Horses. How Lanterns fuses science-fiction action with murder-mystery thrillers will be one of the most intriguing parts of the show.

In theaters: June 26, 2026

Look up? Look out. After her buzzy cameo at the end of Superman, all eyes are on Milly Alcock (House of the Dragon) as Kara Zor-El, the messy Girlfailure of Steel and cousin to Kal-El. In a dramatic change from all other live-action incarnations of Supergirl—including the 1984 bomb, the millennial-oriented 2015-2021 TV series, and her portrayal in the 2023 film The Flash by Sasha Calle—Alcock's Kara is a wondrous woo-girl whose movie is set to be a big science-fiction epic. Spiritually, the movie is based on Tom King and Bilquis Evely's comic-book series Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.

Said Gunn in an interview with Deadline: "In our series we see the difference between Superman who was sent to Earth and raised by loving parents from the time he was an infant, versus Supergirl who was raised on a rock, a chip off Krypton, and watched everyone around her die and be killed in terrible ways for the first 14 years of her life, and then came to Earth when she was a young girl. She's much more hardcore, she's not exactly the Supergirl we're use to seeing."

In theaters: September 11, 2026

One of Batman's most unusual enemies will star in his own movie—and given the backstory of the character, the irony is quite hilarious.

Based on the villain created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane in 1940, Clayface is a fading Hollywood actor turned shapeshifter named Basil Karlo who uses his powers for a life of crime. He obtains his powers to keep his matinee looks and star power, only to end up a monstrosity. The movie is being described as a body horror in the vein of David Cronenberg.

While a Clayface movie predates Gunn's ascension at DC—with filmmaker Mike Flanagan talking openly about a Clayface movie as a sort of dream project of his—Gunn's stewardship of DC has made Clayface take on more importance.

By 2024, Clayface was formally green-lit for production with a script by Mike Flanagan. James Watkins, director of Speak No Evil, will direct the project, with Tom Rhys Harries set to star.

In theaters: October 1, 2027

It's been a few years since The Batman blew everyone away. It will be several more years until The Batman: Part II hits theaters, but the wait will be worth it. An "Elseworlds" project—meaning the movie's continuity is not shared with James Gunn's unified DC—The Batman: Part II is still an important piece of the DC Studios puzzle as the sequel to a monster hit.

While Gunn has plans for his version of Batman, director Matt Reeves's self-contained movies prove that alternate takes on famous characters can exist independently from the shared DC Universe, so long as the movie is good enough.

In theaters: June 30, 2028

If you think this is just another animated movie, think again. First reported in October 2024, Dynamic Duo is a new animated feature under DC Studios that is set to tell the early years of two different Robins: Dick Grayson and Jason Todd.

What's special about Dynamic Duo is that it will hail from the New Orleans–based studio Swaybox, which uses a signature style of animation it dubs "Momo." It is a hybrid style combining puppetry, CGI, and live-action performances. Swaybox's cohead Arthur Mintz is directing the movie.

The movie is being produced under Matt Reeves's 6th & Idaho, though it has no other relation to Reeves's Batman movies. "I have wanted to make a film with Arthur and Swaybox for many years, and for that film to be Dynamic Duo, an incredibly special and unique Batman and Robin story for families, is a dream," Reeves told Deadline in an October 2024 statement.

On HBO Max: TBA

No matter what masked heroes and genetic freaks come and go in the DCU, there is always Amanda Waller to set them straight. Surviving the regime change is Viola Davis, whose stalwart bureaucrat Amanda Waller has already appeared in Gunn's DC. But in 2023, Gunn announced a stand-alone TV series, simply titled Waller, with Davis reprising her role.

While little has been heard about the project since, Gunn talked about it as "the story of Amanda Waller," in which she "teams up with Team Peacemaker" for a yet-unknown plot.

In theaters: TBA

Described as James Gunn's "passion project," The Authority is an upcoming film adaptation of the superheroes from Wildstorm, which folded into DC Comics in 1998. Created by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, the Authority are a group of ultra-secret superheroes who save the world by any means necessary. In 2023, Gunn teased that these former Wildstorm characters are entering the DCU and will "interact" with the familiar heroes of DC in a big way.

"The Authority are a group of superheroes who think the world is broken and they want to fix it by any means necessary," summarized Gunn.

In Superman, María Gabriela de Faría's character the Engineer originates from the Authority, and her appearance plants the seed for their eventual cinematic debut.

On HBO Max: TBA

Billed as a Wonder Woman prequel, Paradise Lost is set to tell the beginnings of the Amazons of Themyscira. In 2023, Gunn described it as Game of Thrones, only set on Paradise Island. In 2025, Gunn provided an update on the series to Entertainment Weekly, saying that it's "moving along."

In theaters: TBA

When James Gunn said that a new DC Universe is taking shape, he meant it. Case in point: The studio is working on a brand-new Wonder Woman movie, one that will see the character rebooted and the role recast after Gal Gadot's take on the character. In June 2025, Gunn told Entertainment Weekly that a new Wonder Woman movie was "being written right now."

In 2023, Gal Gadot said in different interviews that a third Wonder Woman movie was going to enter development and that she was "invited to a meeting" with both James Gunn and studio cochair Peter Safran. She told Flaunt magazine, "What they told me, and I'm quoting: 'You're in the best hands. We're going to develop Wonder Woman 3 with you. [We] love you as Wonder Woman— you've got nothing to worry about.' So time will tell." Shortly after, Variety ran an exclusive citing sources that no promises were made to Gadot.

On July 16, Variety reported that the success of Superman has inspired the studio to "fast-track" the new Wonder Woman movie.

In theaters: TBA

While Matt Reeves's Batman universe remains part of the Elseworlds, James Gunn's stamp on the Dark Knight will be seen in The Brave and the Bold.

The movie, which does not yet have a release date, will feature the debut of yet another Batman, played by a new actor, who will be both the mentor and father to his son, Damian Wayne, the most reckless sidekick to ever hold the name Robin. In 2023, Gunn said that the movie will be based on Grant Morrison's lengthy late-2000s run on various Batman comics. Gunn summarized the movie as Batman trying to train Damian into a proper superhero after Damian has learned to become an assassin (presumably by the League of Assassins, if Gunn's movie adheres to the comics at all).

"This is the story of the two of them, and the beginning of the Bat-Family in the DCU," said Gunn.

On HBO Max: TBA

The DC Universe is about to get a whole lot shinier—and dimmer.

Announced by James Gunn back in 2023, Booster Gold will center on the title character, a "loser" time traveler from the distant future who uses his era's technology in our present to become a celebrity superhero. Gunn says the HBO Max series will be about "impostor syndrome."

One of the last projects James Gunn revealed in January 2023 is a new Swamp Thing movie. A popular horror superhero with cult appeal, Swamp Thing has received several film and TV adaptations, including an acclaimed but short-lived streaming series that premiered in 2019.

The new Swamp Thing reboot, Gunn says, is "a very dark horror story" that will tell the origins of the character. "Although it's tonally outside the rest of the DCU, it will feed into the rest of the stories."

Filmmaker James Mangold is overseeing Swamp Thing as director. In June 2023, he told Variety, "While I'm sure DC views Swamp Thing as a franchise, I would be viewing it as a very simple, clean, Gothic horror movie about this man/monster." He added that he envisions it as "a kind of Frankenstein movie."