The Arkham Asylum TV collection, which was in improvement for the Max streaming service, is now not transferring 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 various years, with a handful of creatives coming and going.
When the collection was introduced 4 years in the past, it initially didn’t concentrate on Arkham Asylum. As an alternative, it was speculated 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 as a result of inventive variations. Joe Barton (The Lazarus Undertaking) then boarded the collection, solely to go away as nicely 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. Nevertheless, a person with data of the state of affairs did inform Selection {that a} new Arkham Asylum challenge might reemerge down the highway.
Matt Reeves confirmed in 2022 that the GCPD collection had developed to focus extra on Arkham Asylum. “The GCPD thing, that story has kind of evolved,” Reeves stated. “We’re actually now moving more into the realm of exactly what would happen in the world of Arkham coming off our movie and some of the (villain) characters, again in their origins. Almost leaning into the idea of, it’s like a horror movie or like a haunted house that is Arkham. The idea of, the way that Gotham is a character in the movie, I really want Arkham to exist as a character so you’d go into this environment and encounter these characters in a way that feels really fresh. So in our work on Gotham, that story started to evolve and it started feeling like, ‘Wait, we should really lean into this.’ And that’s kind of where 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 challenge was nonetheless within the works, it might be a DCU present fairly 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 position 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.
