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DC Comics

May 2023

  • The caped cameo … Nicolas Cage as Superman.

    Week in geek
    Is Nicolas Cage finally getting his turn in the Superman suit?

    He lost out when 1989’s Tim Burton-helmed Superman Lives was canned, but The Flash, Warner DC’s first venture into the multiverse, could see the actor finally do his thing in the red cape

April 2023

  • Lady Gaga and Joker: Folie à Deux film still

    Week in geek
    Can the Joker musical or Superman save the world from ‘superhero fatigue’?

    DC supremo James Gunn has admitted superhero fatigue is ‘very real’ and ‘just watching things bash each other’ is not much fun. What will that mean for his high profile projects?

March 2023

  • Brad Pitt stars as Achilles in Troy.

    Week in geek
    Hits and myths: why has Hollywood abandoned ancient Greece?

    Tolkien-inspired mythology has taken over our screens while a treasure chest of epic fantasy tales lies unused
  • The definitive take … Christopher Reeve in Superman, 1978.

    Week in geek
    James Gunn must usher in nothing less than Superman’s big-screen second coming

    The Guardians of the Galaxy writer-director and DC Studios CEO has turned his focus to the company’s ultimate hero. But will anyone ever fill Christopher Reeve’s 45-year-old red boots?
  • Power couple … Zachary Levi and Helen Mirren in Shazam! Fury of the Gods.

    Shazam! Fury of the Gods review – second dose of DC’s impostor-syndrome superhero

    Zachary Levi returns as the hapless, self-involved crime-fighter in a zesty sequel that, though funny, doesn’t entirely shatter the superhero-movie template

February 2023

  • James Gunn, with a beard and glasses and wearing a T shirt with a rainbow and fangs, holding a microphone

    Week in geek
    James Gunn’s plans for DC are brave, bold and bereft of Batfleck – apparently

    Can the film-maker revolutionise DC with a slate of five movies, with new and old actors, that will interconnect superhero stories?

January 2023

  • MICHAEL SHANNON as General Zod in Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures action adventure MAN OF STEEL, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. film still

    Week in geek
    Multiverse mania: can DC replicate Marvel’s blueprint for success?

    DC Studios will take a leaf out of its rival’s book with The Flash’s alternate-reality plot. Cheap gimmick – or smart path to revival?

December 2022

  • Henry Cavill, right, and Ben Affleck in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

    Week in geek
    After ditching Henry Cavill’s Superman, can James Gunn really turn DC around?

  • HENRY CAVILL as Superman in Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures action adventure MAN OF STEEL film still

    Henry Cavill dropped as Superman weeks after announcing return to role

November 2022

  • Artwork by Tula Lotay, the pen-name of English comic book writer Lisa Wood, who also founded the comics convention, Thought Bubble.

    Pow! Why female writers are a top draw in the world of comics

    As 15,000 fans gather in Yorkshire this weekend, authors tell how the male domination of the genre was broken

October 2022

  • Marvel Cinematic Universe Mega-Panel, Comic-Con San Diego, California, USA - 23 Jul 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by John Salangsang/REX/Shutterstock (13040985bs) James Gunn Marvel Cinematic Universe Mega-Panel, Comic-Con San Diego, California, USA - 23 Jul 2022

    Week in geek
    Bound for the reload: how DC’s new maestro James Gunn rebuilt his career

  • Black Adam

    Now you've seen it
    Black Adam: Dwayne Johnson’s new kind of superhero and a DC reset – discuss with spoilers

  • Gotham Knights, action role-playing game. Screenshot

    Gotham Knights review – a promising spin-off that wilts in Batman’s shadow

  • Black Adam - film still

    Black Adam review – the Rock is back in Spandex for surrealist superhero comedy

  • Batgirl axed, The Flash floundering – can Black Adam turn things round for DC’s troubled superheroes?

  • Week in geek
    Dwayne Johnson is wrong: a Marvel/DC crossover would be disastrous

September 2022

  • Joaquin Phoenix dances down a flight of steps in Joker.

    Week in geek
    Stop laughing at the back: why shouldn’t Joker 2 be a musical?

    With Lady Gaga and Brendon Gleeson in the cast, director Todd Phillips sequel project would sit fine with the nuttiness of the current DC universe

August 2022

  • Leslie Grace as Batgirl in the cancelled DC film

    ‘Secret’ screenings of cancelled Batgirl movie being held by studio – reports

    It remains unlikely the public will ever see the scrapped $90m film, with the directors saying ‘it cannot be released in its current state’
  • FILE: Ezra Miller Arrested For Disorderly Conduct In Hawaii<br>FILE - MARCH 29: Actor Ezra Miller was arrested for disorderly conduct in a bar in Hawaii. He has been released on bond. HOLLYWOOD, CA - NOVEMBER 13: Actor Ezra Miller arrives at the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures' 'Justice League' at Dolby Theatre on November 13, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

    Ezra Miller breaks silence to apologise ‘to everyone that I have alarmed’

    In their first statement since legal issues began, non-binary actor says they have begun treatment for ‘complex mental health issues’
  • Tim Burton’s Superman Lives with Nicolas Cage will never be seen.

    Forget Batgirl, where’s Superman Lives? The inside stories of Hollywood’s biggest abandoned films

    Eliot Ness hunts a killer, Nicolas Cage plays the Man of Steel and Marilyn Monroe is The Girl in Pink Tights in films that were never released. A writer, a producer and a film expert tell the movies’ hidden histories
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