Max ends the planned Batman series set in Arkham Asylum

It is no secret that the world of Warner Bros. Discovery’s various DC Comics-based films and shows is a bit of a madhouse. With projects featuring the company’s major superheroes not Only The projects are divided into those that were created before James Gunn and Peter Safran took over the brand a few years ago, and the material that is still in development and will come afterward – but also those projects that are isolated in their own little universes, such as the joker Films or the various spin-off attempts of Matt Reeves’ The Batman—the whole thing has become incredibly unwieldy since the entire building was demolished as a result of 2017 Justice League. Is it any wonder that even a well-known Batman project can fall through the cracks?

This is per diversitywhich reports that a planned Max series, which began as a spin-off of The Batmanbefore focusing on the workings of the infamous supervillain warehouse Arkham Asylum, has now been canceled by the streamer. The series was originally developed by Terence Winter (who was immediately withdrawn from the project due to “creative differences”) and was originally supposed to revolve around the workings of the Gotham Police Department in Reeves’ Bat-verse, similar to Colin Farrell’s upcoming penguin show. But it mutated over the course of a few years, and with the arrival of new showrunner Anthonio Campos (The stairs), into an Arkham show that Gunn said would actually be part of her upcoming DC Universe reboot in 2023, because why not say it, it was free and basically meant nothing.

Especially if the show is canceled completely, which is the case here: diversity says today that Max has decided not to move the series forward. There is no word on Why the Arkham series will not move forward – the basic premise is fascinating enough, with potential for plenty of supervillain drama – but at the same time it is not in total It’s a shock to see a series that had such a convoluted path to the screen (and that runs on a streamer that dumps series with Arkham-style sociopathy) sent to an early grave.