6 Reasons Why Warner Bros. Cancelling DC Universe Would Be A HUGE Mistake

Picture the scene. The year is 2023. Matt Reeves' Battinson has been and gone. Warner Brothers are reticent to try to build another cohesive movie universe after the stink of 2018's Justice League movie still lingers in the nostrils. They've shown TV and movie versions of The Flash, Superman, Cyborg, Deathstroke and Lex Luthor to name a few, without those character brands feeling too diluted. The next logical step?

A new Batman live-action TV show.

Everyone knows superhero stories work best in the television format. You can easily map whole comic book story-arcs into seasons, and issues into episodes. Yet for some reason, since we said goodbye to the Adam West days, a live-action Caped Crusader has only ever been given less than three hours to solve a mystery and catch the bad guy. The TV Batmen we get at the moment mostly consist of hallucinated glimpses (Titans), fan-service-y nods and winks (the Arrowverse), or a prequel series so desperate to make you forget the main character isn't Batman yet, it trips over itself with more references than it knows what to do with (Gotham). Warner Brothers currently seems scared to give Batman too much TV screen time, opting instead to wring out every last possible bit of excitement from mere mentions just to bolster the ratings of tangentially connected shows.

But given enough time, and fan outcry, DC Universe would be the only logical place for a long-term, detective-style Batman series.