According to Forbes, Dick Grayson is in with a shout of appearing in either The Batman or a sequel released further down the line.
If Reeves is taking inspiration from Loeb and Sale's Batman comics, with The Long Halloween a particular point of reference, then it would stand to reason that a film depicting Grayson's origins would pool inspiration from Dark Victory.
It would certainly help in distinguishing Reeves' vision from Nolan's (as said previously, TDK borrowed heavily from Long Halloween already), and the Boy Wonder is long overdue an accurate big screen portrayal.
As for Dark Victory - that book provided a modern update to Grayson's origins as Robin, and happened to feature a lot of villains too...
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 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 the Golden Age of Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled.
