James Gunn Confirms DC’s Dynamic Duo Film, About Dick Grayson And Jason Todd

As we head in direction of 2025, we’re getting nearer and nearer to the daybreak of James Gunn’s all-new DCU. The Suicide Squad filmmaker and producer Peter Safran are on the helm of the re-jigged DC Studios, going huge with subsequent summer time’s Gunn-directed Superman, however technically launching this December with animated sequence Creature Commandos. And now, Gunn has introduced one other animated challenge for the DCU slate – this one a big-screen launch, titled Dynamic Duo. Make method for the story of Robin.

Or, as Gunn himself put it on social media, ‘Robins’. As a result of as its title suggests, there’ll be a pair of characters at play right here – the movie will concentrate on each Dick Grayson and Jason Todd, who’ve every taken the Robin mantle below Batman at varied factors of continuity. Grayson was the unique Robin, and later went on to imagine the title Nightwing; Todd was the second Robin, and later popped up in additional villainous kind as Purple Hood. “Over the moon excited to announce the most recent DC Studios/Warner Bros Photos Animation greenlit movie for theaters, Dynamic Duo, the story of Robin… or ought to I say, Robins, as in Dick Grayson and Jason Todd,” Gunn wrote.

Notably, Gunn additionally expanded on the animation model for the movie – which sounds prefer it gained’t be the standard studio fare. The filmmaker named Swaybox because the staff behind the manufacturing – a New Orleans-based artistic staff who work primarily in puppetry. In consequence, Dynamic Duo will probably be “a mixture of animation, puppetry, and CGI,” Gunn says. The DC Studios boss additionally confirmed Coco and Lightyear author Matt Aldrich as the person behind the script, whereas Matt Reeves’ sixth & Idaho can also be on producing duties. Don’t take that as an indication, although, that it’s in any method associated to The Batman universe – which sits individually to the DCU.

Elsewhere, the DCU slate is steadily coming collectively – Superman will probably be adopted by Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl: Lady Of Tomorrow in 2026, HBO sequence Lanterns is gearing as much as shoot in 2025, and subsequent yr also needs to see the discharge of Peacemaker Season 2. Right here’s hoping the dynamic duo of Gunn and Safran can pull all of it off.