Well, huh: DC announces a live-action Teen Titans movie

In a move that made us literally say “Huh!” out loud, to ourselves, in our otherwise empty office, DC Films announced today that it’s making a live-action movie version of the long-running Teen Titans franchise. The film will be written by Ana Nogueira, who’s already in pretty deep with the James Gunn/Peter Safran-run studio, where she’s currently writing the upcoming Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow film.

As to that “Huh!”, well…It’s not like the Titans aren’t a well-known or successful brand at this point, or anything: They had a 4-season live-action TV series as recently as last year, are made up of a number of popular DC characters like Robin, Raven, and Starfire, and (not to put too fine a point on it) already starred in one of the funniest superhero movies ever made. (We will die on this hill, Teen Titans Go To The Movies is great.) It’s just that the history of teen-based superhero movies is pretty dire (sorry, New Mutants fans)—and that, given that the Titans are, almost by default, made up of sidekicks and younger heroes, it feels like a weird step to take this early on, given that Gunn and Safran are still in the midst of establishing what the hell this new superhero universe even looks like.

But who are we to get in the way of a live-action cinematic version of Deathstroke The Terminator, huh? (Who will almost certainly not be played by Joe Manganiello, who played the character for like 5 whole seconds in 2017's Justice League, and who has said that his buddy James Gunn has told him to “let go” of dreams of reprising his take on the character.) No word yet on when a potential Titans movie could actually get made, meanwhile; Gunn’s superhero universe doesn’t even kick off proper until mid-2025, when Superman finally flies into theaters, and the furthest the studio’s schedule currently goes is the October 2026, out-of-continuity release of The Batman Part II.

[via The Hollywood Reporter]