With 2025’s upcoming Superman film set to kick off the DCU in earnest, James Gunn has explained how the new universe might co-exist with the world established in Matt Reeves’ The Batman. The Batman’s “Epic Crime Saga” universe introduced fans to several new versions of iconic villains from the comics,

So outside of the stuff that I’m doing in the projects that are actively going, our two priorities are finishing our Wonder Woman and our Batman scripts.” He went on to say that there’s an issue of differentiating the DCU Batman from Reeves’ Batman,

DC Studios co-head James Gunn recently clarified how villains can appear in both the main DC Universe (DCU) and Matt Reeves’ separate Batman films. According to Gunn, there are no strict rules preventing the same bad guys from showing up in both worlds.