"For all the great ideas coming out of DC Studios these days, not everything can come to fruition. About half the projects James Gunn initially announced when he first took on the daunting task of rebooting the DC Universe are now MIA; while Creature Commandos, Superman, and Lanterns have all made it through production, the same can't be said for The Authority, the Suicide Squad spin-off Waller, or Booster Gold."
"DC's defunct Arkham series is one such relic. The Batman director Matt Reeves was once developing a series focused on Arkham Asylum - which would have been canon to the DCU, not his "Batman Epic Crime Universe" - but production stalled. Variety reported that the show was indefinitely shelved in 2024, and no official word has come from DC Studios since."
"Gunn recently sat down for an interview with BobaTalks, where he finally addressed the fate of DC's Arkham show. While there's "hope" the studio will someday revisit the project, it may not be any time soon. "That isn't something that is being developed by anyone right now," Gunn said."
Production on the Arkham Asylum television series stalled and the project was reported indefinitely shelved in 2024, with no official updates from DC Studios since. The series went through multiple evolutions, originally greenlit in 2020 as a Gotham police procedural tied to Matt Reeves' Epic Crime Universe before shifting focus toward Arkham Asylum itself. The concept ultimately proved incompatible with the reorganized DC Universe and is not being developed at present. The studio expressed hope the idea could be revisited someday, but no active development is underway.
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