Titans star Brenton Thwaites addressed the potential for a Nightwing film and whether or not or not he’d prefer to star in it.
“It is positively potential,” Thwaites mentioned in an interview with Fox 5 Information. “You realize, I really like the speak, I really like the rumors, I might like to do a Nightwing film. I feel the character is, you understand, he is bought a lot content material on the market on him. There’s a whole lot of tales. So, it will be a beautiful film, however to be trustworthy I do not know about that.”
Thwaites, who is ready to reprise his function as Dick Grayson/Nightwing within the upcoming fourth season of DC’s Titans on HBO Max, has beforehand mentioned his curiosity in a film primarily based on the character. In a Might 2022 interview, Thwaites said that he could be most focused on a solo Nightwing movie that explored both a a lot youthful, or a lot older, model of Dick Grayson.
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“Somebody who’s like Bruce Wayne’s age, you understand… or 45 or 50,” the actor mentioned. “So like an actor 15 years my senior to type of painting the character and what it’s been like preventing crime for therefore lengthy. Or a youthful teenager and also you undergo the storyline of shedding his dad and mom, and what meaning for him, and coaching with Bruce, and type of psychological trauma that he faces.”
Whereas Warner Bros. tapped The LEGO Batman Film director Chris McKay to helm a DC Prolonged Universe movie in regards to the Batman character in 2018, there hasn’t been a lot motion from Warner Bros. on the venture. There was hypothesis from followers that Dylan O’Brien had been solid as Nightwing in HBO Max’s now-canceled Batgirl film, although this was by no means confirmed and solely remained hypothesis. Regardless of an absence of updates from the studio — which has undergone vital content material shifts for the reason that merger between Warner Bros. and Discovery Inc. — the director said in a June 2021 interview that there’s nonetheless hope for a Nightwing film.
“I hope that we nonetheless get to make that film. So far as I am involved, it isn’t misplaced but,” McKay mentioned. “It’s clearly one thing that… [Warner Bros. and DC have] had different priorities, they’ve had different challenges. They’d had issues that they wanted to do, and I feel that they discovered their manner, with their current successes, and the stuff that they’re planning on doing now. I feel it opens the door for us to nonetheless be capable of do a Nightwing film.”
For now, Thwaites stars as Nightwing in Season 4 of Titans, which is ready to premiere on HBO Max someday in 2022. Created by Akiva Goldsman, Geoff Johns and Greg Berlanti, Titans follows the titular superhero group and stars Thwaites as Dick Grayson/Nightwing, Ryan Potter as Gar Logan/Beast Boy, Anna Diop as Starfire and Teagan Croft as Raven. Later seasons have launched characters like Superboy, Hawk and Dove, Wonder Girl and Barbara Gordon.
Titans Seasons 1-3 are presently streaming on HBO Max. Season 4 doesn’t but have a premiere date.
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