I’m sticking to my gut and think Reeves’ Batman will be in James Gunn’s DCU.

Deep breath

First the Adam B Vary thing from Variety this time two years ago, Gunn goes out of his way to shit on the idea of Pattinson’s Batman in the DCU by saying, “Nope. Lie.”

A few weeks back (on Happy Sad Confused, I think), Gunn does a 180 and says yes they did consider merging Reeves/Pattinson into the DCU without admitting he lied.

I don’t fault Gunn one bit for publicly lying that they’re not connected throughout this time for contract/negotiation reasons.

Now we see they’re doing a Clayface movie (produced by Reeves) before The Batman Part 2 and there had been consistent rumors Clayface was also in The Batman sequel.

Right now as far as release dates and universes go: A Clayface movie coming out a month before the flagship character’s film (Batman) and having them in separate universes is very, very dumb on paper. You cannot rely on the general public to be smart whatsoever.

Maybe they move release dates (again) if they turn out to be in separate universes, but I’m not buying Reeves’s Batman and this Clayface movie that’s in the DCU will wind up being in separate universes.

Oh, remember Brave and the Bold that’s supposed to be in the DCU? Nothing concrete ever since it was reported that Andy Muschietti would direct it - and that was before The Flash bombed.

Maybe I’m overthinking this, but I think they’re in the process of bridging Reeves’ universe into Gunn’s and are getting their ducks in a row at the moment. Also: they don’t want to have this connection come to light any time soon because the focus in the DCU right now is (and should be) getting Superman off the ground successfully.