Arkham Asylum TV series will no longer continue with the Maximum (EXCLUSIVE)

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The planned Arkham Asylum television series is no longer making progress at Max, diversity have learned.

As diversity As exclusively reported in October 2022, Antonio Campos had come on board as writer and showrunner of the series, which was originally supposed to be set in the world of Matt Reeves’ “The Batman.” But according to a person with knowledge of the situation, Campos’ version will not continue. However, it is still possible that a new project set in Gotham City’s notorious asylum will be developed in the future, the person noted.

This ends (at least for now) the show’s complicated path to the big screen. A series commitment was originally announced in July 2020, but at the time it was supposed to focus on the inner workings of Gotham PD as shown in “The Batman.” Terrence Winter was set to serve as a writer and executive producer, but left the project in November 2020 due to creative differences. “Giri/Haji” creator Joe Barton was then hired as a writer, but Warner Bros. ultimately parted ways with Barton as well.

Reeves then said in a 2022 interview that the Gotham PD show did not happen, but that the story “started to evolve” and became the Arkham Asylum show, which he described as “a horror movie or a haunted house that is Arkham.” Campos then joined, but not long after, it was announced that James Gunn and Peter Safran would take over DC Studios and launch a rebooted film and television universe. In a series of social media posts in December 2023, Gunn said the show was still in development and clarified that it would be set in the new DCU and not in the same world as The Batman.

But that doesn’t mean the world Reeves built in “The Batman” will go dormant. “The Penguin,” a crime drama starring Colin Ferrell as the titular supervillain, is set to premiere on Max in September. Reeves is also working on “The Batman Part II,” though the film’s release date was recently pushed back from October 2025 to October 2026.

Gunn and Safran, meanwhile, are in the midst of rebooting DC’s interconnected film and television universe. Production is currently underway on a new Superman film starring David Corenswet, and several more films are in the works. It was also recently announced that a Green Lantern television series has been greenlit, but it will be branded as an HBO original rather than Max due to a new content demarcation revealed to HBO and Max boss Casey Bloys. diversity in June.