Titans star Brenton Thwaites addressed the opportunity of a Nightwing film and whether or not or not he’d prefer to star in it.
“It is positively potential,” Thwaites stated in an interview with Fox 5 Information. “You understand, I really like the speak, I really like the rumors, I might like to do a Nightwing film. I feel the character is, you recognize, he is bought a lot content material on the market on him. There’s a number of tales. So, it will be a beautiful film, however to be trustworthy I do not know about that.”
Thwaites, who is about to reprise his position 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 can be most interested by 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 recognize… or 45 or 50,” the actor stated. “So like an actor 15 years my senior to sort of painting the character and what it’s been like preventing crime for thus lengthy. Or a youthful teenager and also you undergo the storyline of dropping his dad and mom, and what which means for him, and coaching with Bruce, and sort of psychological trauma that he faces.”
Whereas Warner Bros. tapped The LEGO Batman Film director Chris McKay to helm a DC Prolonged Universe movie concerning 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 important content material shifts because the 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 stated. “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 to do a Nightwing film.”
For now, Thwaites stars as Nightwing in Season 4 of Titans, which is about to premiere on HBO Max someday in 2022. Created by Akiva Goldsman, Geoff Johns and Greg Berlanti, Titans follows the titular superhero staff 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 at present streaming on HBO Max. Season 4 doesn’t but have a premiere date.
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