Final week, information broke that Warner Bros. is growing a movie primarily based on Nightwing, Batman’s authentic Robin all grown up and along with his personal vigilante id.

Since then, fantasy casting for the function of Dick Grayson has run rampant. Potential candidates have included Supernatural lead Jared Padalecki and The Vampire Diaries actor Steven R. McQueen, who appeared to be campaigning for the function previously. However, followers appear to favor the return of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who performed Batman’s protege in The Dark Knight Rises.

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Now fan artist BossLogic has thrown one other contender into the world, and that is Zac Efron, star of such movies as Mike and Dave Want Wedding ceremony Dates, Neighbors, and the upcoming Baywatch reboot with the Rock.

BossLogic put collectively a brand new picture depicting what Efron would possibly seem like as Nightwing in a DC Prolonged Universe film. You possibly can see it and much more of BossLogic’s work within the gallery beneath.

Nightwing already has a 4.02 out of 5 ComicBook.com consumer anticipation score, making it the eleventh most anticipated upcoming film amongst ComicBook.com readers. Tell us how excited you might be concerning the Nightwing film by giving it your personal anticipation score.

Nightwing would be the live-action directing debut of The LEGO Batman Film director Chris McKay. Invoice Dubuque, who wrote Ben Affleck’s The Accountant, is engaged on the script.

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The Nightwing film announcement has led to important hypothesis about the way forward for Ben Affleck’s Batman within the DC Prolonged Universe. Having debuted within the function in final 12 months’s Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice, Affleck made a cameo look in Suicide Squad and can lead DC Comics’ premiere superhero workforce in Justice League.

Affleck is signed on for the subsequent Batman solo film and was even going to direct the movie himself at one level. He has since dropped out of directing The Batman, ceding the director’s chair to Warfare for the Planet of the Apes director Matt Reeves.

This sequence of occasions has led to some hypothesis that Affleck’s Batman is being phased out as Affleck loses curiosity within the function, and that the Nightwing film could also be a part of a plan to interchange Bruce Wayne because the Dark Knight of the DC Prolonged Universe. Warner Bros. has not commented on such plans, so this stays simply hypothesis for now. It’s price declaring that there was a preferred Batman comedian ebook run involving Dick Grayson changing Bruce Wayne as Batman after Wayne’s obvious demise within the mid to late 2000s.

To see when Justice League, The Batman, and different films will hit theaters, go to ComicBook.com’s film launch schedule.