The Arkham Asylum TV collection, which was in improvement for the Max streaming service, is not shifting ahead.
Per Selection, the Arkham Asylum TV collection has been scrapped. The collection, which was in improvement for Max, had been within the works for a lot of years, with a handful of creatives coming and going.
When the collection was introduced 4 years in the past, it initially didn’t deal with Arkham Asylum. As an alternative, it was imagined to revolve across the Gotham Metropolis Police Division. Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire) was set to put in writing and government produce the spin-off of Matt Reeves’ The Batman, however Winter left the collection because of inventive variations. Joe Barton (The Lazarus Mission) then boarded the collection, solely to depart as properly when the main target shifted to Arkham Asylum. The studio then tapped Antonio Campos (The Staircase) to take over, however evidently the collection simply wasn’t meant to be. Nonetheless, a person with information of the state of affairs did inform Selection {that a} new Arkham Asylum undertaking may reemerge down the street.
Matt Reeves confirmed in 2022 that the GCPD collection had developed to focus extra on Arkham Asylum. “The GCPD factor, that story has form of developed,” Reeves stated. “We’re really now shifting extra into the realm of precisely what would occur on this planet of Arkham coming off our film and among the (villain) characters, once more of their origins. Virtually leaning into the thought of, it’s like a horror film or like a haunted home that’s Arkham. The concept of, the way in which that Gotham is a personality within the film, I actually need Arkham to exist as a personality so that you’d go into this atmosphere and encounter these characters in a approach that feels actually contemporary. So in our work on Gotham, that story began to evolve and it began feeling like, ‘Wait, we must always actually lean into this.’ And that’s form of the place that’s gone.” The collection was developed earlier than James Gunn and Peter Safran took management of DC Studios, and Gunn later took to social media to say that whereas the undertaking was nonetheless within the works, it could be a DCU present somewhat than a direct spin-off of The Batman.
Arkham Asylum could also be locked away for now, however we do have a Batman-related TV collection on the way in which with The Penguin. Set within the aftermath of the occasions of The Batman, the upcoming collection finds Colin Farrell reprising his function as Oswald Cobblepot. The collection will debut on Max on September eighth. As for The Batman Half II, the movie is slated for an October 2, 2026 launch.
