DCEU'S Nightwing Movie: 10 Mistakes It Must Avoid

Can we please get away from the whole 'badass' thing? Please?

by Ewan Paterson
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Justice League may only be a month away from hitting theatres, but it's the future of the DCEU that has us most concerned.

After a stellar solo feature in Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman, the qualitative future of Warner Bros. shared superhero universe is almost impossible to gage. One moment, Justice League looks like the coolest comic book team-up ever - the next, it looks like the CGI-blended typification of all that's wrong with the Warner's world. There's literally no consistency to speak of and, as the universe gears up for its next stage, talk of a Joker-Harley rom com has intimated bluntly that we're not out of the woods yet.

Should fans of Nightwing - the next superhero in line for a solo feature - be worried? Perhaps, but at least they have something to look forward to in Chris McKay's direction, with the director having already completed one Bat-related project in the Lego Batman Movie. Irrespective of your thoughts on that particular feature, past statements from his camp give cause for encouragement, even if the language hasn't always been as on point as we'd have liked.

Dick Grayson is a special character and one who means a great deal to plenty of comics fans. It needs to be a different kind of comic book film though - one that must navigate a plethora of pitfalls along the way.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.