Warner Bros. Details DC Movies Release Schedule

Leslie Cheung about 10 years ago

At a Time Warner investors meeting yesterday (October 15, US time), Warner Bros.' Chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara announced detail release schedule of its studio's DC Comics, Lego and Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them films from 2016 to 2020.

Here is the release schedule for DC Comics films:

2016-03-25 Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice
2016-08-05 Suicide Squad

2017-06-23 Wonder Woman
2017-11-12 Justice League Part One

2018-03-23 The Flash
2018-07-27 Aquaman

2019-04-05 Shazam
2019-06-14 Justice League Part Two

2020-04-03 Cyborg
2020-06-19 Green Lantern

Zack Snyder directs Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice and both Justice League films and Fury director David Ayer will direct Suicide Squad, which is a US government top secret super-villain black-ops team. The 2020 Green Lantern film will be a reboot which fits in the current DC Cinematic Universe. Warner Bros. also reveals that solo films for both Superman and Batman are in development but no release date is scheduled.

Moreover, Tsujihara also announced plans for Lego films:

2016-09-23 Ninjago
2017-05-26 Untitled Lego Batman Movie
2018-05-25 The Lego Movie 2

 and the Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them films:

2016-11-18 Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them
Late-2018 Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them 2
Late-2020 Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them 3

Here is part of the press release:

As part of his presentation, Tsujihara announced a bold expansion of the industry’s broadest theatrical slate, built around the largest, most important global franchises. Warner Bros. Pictures will release three LEGO-branded films over the next four years, building upon the enormous success of this year’s “The LEGO Movie” ($468 million worldwide box office), starting with “Ninjago” in 2016, directed by Charlie Bean and produced by Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Batman will take a star turn in “The LEGO Batman Movie” in 2017, directed by Chris McKay, and the sequel, “The LEGO Movie 2,” will debut in 2018.

The Studio will release three pictures, in 2016, 2018 and 2020, based on best-selling author J.K. Rowling’s original story and screenwriting debut, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” Set in an extension of her familiar wizarding world, featuring magical creatures and characters inspired by Harry Potter’s Hogwarts textbook and its fictitious author, Newt Scamander, “Fantastic Beasts” will be directed by David Yates, who directed the last four Harry Potter movies, and reunite the filmmaking team of David Heyman, J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram.

And, in a massive expansion of the Studio’s DC Entertainment-branded content, Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema will release a slate of at least 10 movies—as well as stand-alone Batman and Superman films—from 2016 through 2020 that expands this prized universe of characters:

• “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” directed by Zack Snyder (2016)
• “Suicide Squad,” directed by David Ayer (2016)
• “Wonder Woman,” starring Gal Gadot (2017)
• “Justice League Part One,” directed by Zack Snyder, with Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill and Amy Adams reprising their roles (2017)
• “The Flash,” starring Ezra Miller (2018)
• “Aquaman,” starring Jason Momoa (2018)
• “Shazam” (2019)
• “Justice League Part Two,” directed by Zack Snyder (2019)
• “Cyborg,” starring Ray Fisher (2020)
• “Green Lantern” (2020)

This certainly looks exciting, but what we are missing here are the previously announced or teased Sandman and Justice League Dark movies. Are they now in development limbo?