Director Chris McKay, recent off The Lego Batman Film, is in negotiations to reprise his activate among the DC Universe’s most well-known characters. The Hollywood Reporter introduced in the present day that McKay is negotiations to helm a stand-alone, live-action movie about Nightwing, the superhero previously often known as Robin.

There have been many Robins over time, however there is just one Nightwing (typically talking): Dick Grayson, the primary teenager to make up the youthful half of Batman’s Dynamic Duo. Grayson was Robin from 1940, a yr after Batman’s personal debut, till 1984, when he was aged up a bit and branched off on his personal underneath the code identify Nightwing.

Warner Bros. has already tasked screenwriter Invoice Dubuque (The Accountant, The Decide) with crafting a script for the as-yet unnamed movie. The Nightwing film would be a part of a Suicide Squad sequel, a Harley Quinn spinoff, a stand-alone Batman movie starring Ben Affleck and films for Shazam, the Flash and Cyborg on the checklist of DC Comics properties that Warner Bros. is in some stage of preproduction on in the meanwhile.

It’s arduous to not see McKay’s involvement in a Batman-related DC Expanded Universe movie as an endorsement of The Lego Batman Film’s extra character-focused, optimistic and comedy oriented tackle the Batman mythos. Maybe Warner Bros. is studying a factor or two.