{"id":92813,"date":"2026-11-09T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T20:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92813"},"modified":"2026-11-09T16:36:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:36:55","slug":"batman-video-game-fans-are-feeling-the-pain-too-after-todays-james-gunn-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92813","title":{"rendered":"Batman Video Game Fans Are Feeling the Pain Too After Today&#8217;s James Gunn News"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Batman fans are eating\u2026well, bad. Or not much at all. We\u2019re actually starving. Across both video games and movies.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve no doubt seen today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/james-gunn-and-peter-safran-are-stepping-down-from-dc-studios-in-shock-development-that-sparks-all-sorts-of-questions-about-the-dcu\">shocking news<\/a> that DCU bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran are out at Warner Br\u2026er, Skydance. And thus, the DCU Batman might not even happen. Or rather, there definitely will be a new big-screen Batman eventually, but Gunn\u2019s entire DCU plan may very well be out the window and we might be starting over. Again. Sigh\u2026 <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"the-batman-2-halts-production-as-director-matt-reeves-steps-away-ign-daily-fix\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>Batman has always been my favorite superhero, and so today\u2019s Gunn news has been bumming me out a little more than expected, because I realized that when you account for what\u2019s going on with the Dark Knight in games and movies \u2013 or maybe more specifically, what\u2019s <em>not <\/em>going on, it\u2019s time to accept that we\u2019re in a proper Batman drought. To zoom out on the movies for a moment, the last time we saw Batman on the big screen was four years ago, via Matt Reeves\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-batman-review-robert-pattinson\">brilliant<\/a> Robert Pattinson-led The Batman. Prior to that, the Caped Crusader showed up in live-action form in The Snyder Cut of Justice League in 2021 \u2013 though obviously that was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batman fans are eating\u2026well, bad. Or not much at all. We\u2019re actually starving. Across both video games and movies. You\u2019ve no doubt seen today\u2019s shocking news that DCU bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran are out at Warner Br\u2026er, Skydance. And thus, the DCU Batman might not even happen. Or rather, there definitely will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":92815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92817,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92813\/revisions\/92817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}