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DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran affirm the animated sequence Teen Titans Go! falls underneath their new DC Elseworlds banner.
DC Studios co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran have confirmed that Cartoon Community’s long-running animated sequence Teen Titans Go! falls underneath their newly-established DC Elseworlds banner.
Gunn and Safran not too long ago introduced the primary 10 initiatives that can make up Chapter 1 of the brand new DC Universe. Whereas talking with The Hollywood Reporter, the duo additionally reaffirmed that initiatives set exterior the shared cinematic universe will live on underneath the Elseworlds banner — together with none apart from Teen Titans Go!. “The bar goes to be very excessive for initiatives to be exterior the DCU, the Elseworlds initiatives,” Safran stated. “However once in a while there will likely be one thing that lives as much as that.”
Different Elseworlds initiatives embody Joker: Folie à Deux, the upcoming sequel to Todd Phillips’ Oscar-winning 2019 movie Joker; Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Superman film, which stays in lively growth at DC after being green-lit underneath the earlier regime; and the upcoming sequel to Matt Reeves’ 2022 movie The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson. Reeves can also be growing two Batman spinoff sequence for HBO Max, with the director beforehand teasing plans for a full-blown Batman franchise set exterior Gunn and Safran’s DCU.
DC Studios’ Elseworlds banner will get its title from DC Comics’ Elseworlds imprint, which was launched in 1989. For years, the Elseworlds imprint was house to quite a few titles set in alternate realities, exterior DC’s essential comedian e book continuity. A number of the most well-known Elseworlds comics embody Kingdom Come, Gotham by Gaslight, Superman: Red Son and Batman: The Doom That Got here to Gotham. The imprint additionally impressed The CW’s 2018 Arrowverse crossover occasion “Elseworlds,” which set the stage for the even larger “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover the next 12 months.
Teen Titans Go! Is Nonetheless Going Sturdy
Teen Titans Go! initially premiered on Cartoon Community in 2013 as a comedic spinoff of the DC animated sequence Teen Titans, which itself aired on the community for 5 seasons from 2003 to 2006. Like the unique sequence, the spinoff stars the voices of Scott Menville, Tara Sturdy, Hynden Walch, Khary Payton and Greg Cipes as Robin, Raven, Starfire, Cyborg and Beast Boy, respectively. Teen Titans Go! is at the moment within the midst of its eighth season, with the present having a whopping 367 episodes underneath its belt on the time of writing.
Along with the sequence itself, Teen Titans Go! has spawned a lot of animated function movies. The primary, Teen Titans Go! To the Motion pictures, launched in theaters in 2018. Cartoon Community and Warner Bros. have additionally put out a lot of made-for-TV and direct-to-video motion pictures, corresponding to Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go! See House Jam and Teen Titans Go! & DC Tremendous Hero Women: Mayhem within the Multiverse.
The New DC Universe Begins to Take Form
As for Gunn and Safran’s new DCU, the Chapter 1 slate at the moment consists of 5 movies and 5 tv sequence, with extra bulletins nonetheless to return. The movies are Superman: Legacy, The Authority, The Courageous and the Daring (starring Batman and Robin), Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and Swamp Factor. The TV reveals are Creature Commandos, Waller, Booster Gold, Lanterns and Paradise Misplaced. Superman: Legacy is scheduled to kick issues off when it hits theaters on July 11, 2025. Gunn and Safran have a two-chapter plan for the DCU spanning eight to 10 years.
Within the meantime, the outdated DC Prolonged Universe is gearing up for one final 12 months of cinematic releases earlier than giving technique to Gunn and Safran’s reboot. In complete, 4 DCEU movies are set to hit theaters this 12 months: Shazam! Fury of the Gods on March 17, The Flash on June 16, Blue Beetle on Aug. 18 and Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom on Dec. 25.
Supply: The Hollywood Reporter