James Gunn Says Joker Isn’t The Batman Saga’s Next TV Star

The Penguin comes to a adjacent this weekend, and folks are wondering what’s next for Oz Cobb—as good arsenic which baddie successful Batman’s rogues’ gallery volition get a amusement of their ain next. Matt Reeves has hinted that could happen, and since this is an Epic Crime Saga, there’s plentifulness much viable villains to physique a bid around.

Recently, rumors started circulating online that a imaginable TV campaigner would beryllium everyone’s favourite execution clown, the Joker. In Reeves’ The Batman, Barry Keoghan portrayed the clown prince successful a reduced role that teased a precise antithetic new look and imaginable team-up with Paul Dano’s Riddler sometime down the line. The Penguin‘s meant to acceptable up The Batman Part II, and you could spot however that aforesaid logic would use for nevertheless agelong this sub-franchise continues. But according to DC Studios co-head James Gunn, nary specified Joker amusement is successful the cards.

“No information to this, sorry,” helium said to a remark connected Threads linking him to the archetypal rumor. Then, successful a separate post, helium said: “Everyone is asking maine astir this. No, determination is perfectly nary information to this. A Joker bid is not being discussed, nor has adjacent travel up astatine this time. Sorry.” Since helium took implicit DC Studios, Gunn’s utilized societal media to debunk rumors astir imaginable projects, specified arsenic a video game acceptable within The Batman’s universe.

Whether oregon not Gunn’s being legit astir Keoghan’s Joker not being up for spinoff potential, it’s improbable Reeves doesn’t instrumentality him retired of the asylum astatine immoderate point: Batman stories can’t assistance but loop Joker into things, and it’d beryllium a hellhole of a happening to ticker Keoghan and Robert Pattinson out-weirdo each different for 2 hours.

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