11 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Batman: Arkham
2. A Suicide Squad Arkham Game Was THIS Close To Happening
Warner Bros. Montreal
It finally looks as though Warner Bros. Montreal are close to realising their next Arkham title, but for years it seemed as though the studio were left frustrated in development hell.
Arkham Origins' ending set up a Suicide Squad spin-off, or at least a title that would've utilised Task Force X in one form or another. They already had Deathstroke nailed to appear, CCH Pounder reprised her role as Amanda Waller from 2003's Justice League cartoon, and an animated spin-off centred around the premise called Assault on Arkham even released too.
But whatever became of Montreal's game? Given they're thought to be working on a sequel to Origins spotlighting the Court of Owls it should come as no surprise to hear it was binned off.
According to Kotaku's Jason Schreier, Montreal stopped working on Suicide Squad late 2016 to focus on a Damian Wayne game, which in turn seems to have fallen to the wayside. The title was meant to be co-op oriented, so here's hoping the studio figure out a way to make that feature work with their new Batman title - whenever it releases.
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.
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