James Gunn Teases His “Favorite” DCU Project Has “Not Been Announced”

With the new DCU kicking off its Gods and Monsters phase, James Gunn is teasing his next superhero passion project.

As he prepares to release Superman, Season 2 of Peacemaker and the new series Lanterns, the DC Studios boss teased that he hopes to make his “favorite thing” in his newly formed cinematic universe next, which “has not been announced at all.”

“Then there’s another TV show that’s my favorite thing in all of this, that is hopefully getting made soon,” he told Entertainment Weekly of what’s next. “It’s just my favorite thing. And then there’s the movie…Oh s—! I don’t know what I’m allowed to say or not say, but there’s a couple of other movies that are being written, one of which is in pretty good shape, another which is kind of closer to the start, but we feel positive about. And then there’s a thing I’m writing, which I think it’s okay…. So what will be the next thing after Clayface is not 100 percent certain, but it’s pretty certain.”

Gunn noted that the “favorite” project he’s hinting at “has not been announced at all” due to fears that other companies will “rip off” the idea.

“One of the scripts people kind of know about,” he explained. “My script people don’t know about. The other script people don’t know about. So it’s mostly stuff people don’t know about…. 

“A couple of those things [announced in January 2023] are in pretty good shape in terms of coming up, but there was one thing that I knew about from the very beginning, that when I pitched to David Zaslav what the DCU would be, I pitched to him, but we did not announce in that first meeting because I felt like it was too easy to rip off by another company,” added Gunn. “And so that’s one of the main things.”

Premiering July 11 in theaters, Gunn’s Superman will launch a new DCU after he and DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran were hired by Warner Bros. Discovery in 2022.