Weapons director Zach Cregger has confirmed that he has a completed script for a DC-based challenge able to go, however he hasn’t truly pitched it to DC Studios but.
Whereas showing on Bloody Disgusting’s podcast again in 2022, Cregger spoke about his “Batman- adjoining” script for the primary time, revealing that he would love the chance to convey it to the display.
“The factor I would like to do subsequent… I’ve truly written a film that takes place within the DC Universe. Which is so not usually my factor; I am not a superhero man – I simply could not cease desirous about this one story that type of takes place in a Batman-adjoining factor. And so I wrote it, and I am totally obsessive about it.”
Cregger did not share any specifics on his story on the time, however throughout a more moderen interview with Discussing Film, he described the script because the “smartest thing I’ve ever written,” and addressed the chance of it being dropped at the eye of DC Studios now that James Gunn and Peter Safran are in cost.
“If I obtained the decision, I might drop the whole lot and go make that film in a heartbeat,” he stated. “It’s my favourite factor I’ve ever written. I adore it, and I’m dying to make it. I’ve not talked to James Gunn in my complete life. I don’t know him however I will surely love to fulfill him and have the dialog. Who is aware of man?”
Daniel Richtman lately reported that the script is definitely a Joker and Harley Quinn film, and we now have some extra particulars to go on.
Based on THR, the challenge is titled Henchmen, and focuses on “a low-degree henchman within the Gotham crime world who beneficial properties notoriety after managing to incapacitate Batman by way of a stroke of luck.” The commerce provides that “The Darkish Knight may seem briefly within the film, whereas Harley Quinn and Joker are within the challenge as nicely.
Cregger has not but pitched it to DC Studios, although the corporate is claimed to pay attention to his curiosity.”
If Gunn and Safran are conscious of Cregger’s curiosity in getting the film into manufacturing, there’s an opportunity we’ll get to see Henchmen sometime, however it sounds just like the filmmaker goes to be busy for the following couple of years.
“I’ve Resident Evil, after which I’ve a sci-fi film proper after that that’s unique. And then I’ve one other completed script that I need to do after that. It truly takes place within the DC Universe, however it’s a very unique and it’s not a superhero film. I wrote that earlier than I wrote Barbarian.”