Showrunner confirms Fate at Max for Arkham Asylum series

July 7, 2024

After four years in development hell, a planned Arkham Asylum Series has been canceled. Recently, it was reported that the series, which was planned as a streaming release on Max, has been officially canceled.

Originally a spinoff of Robert Pattinson’s The BatmanThe series was produced by director Matt Reeves. It was originally conceived as a series focusing on the officers of the Gotham Police Department, but evolved into a show set in Arkham Asylum. In December 2023, DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn announced that the project would now take place in the DCU and not in the same world as The BatmanNow showrunner Joe Otterson has reacted to the news and confirmed with a post on X that production has failed.

Greg Capullo's Batman fights a swarm of villains in Arkham Asylum.

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“To clarify, James Gunn said months ago that the Arkham Asylum Show would be part of the DCU and not Reeves’ world of The Batmansaid Otterson. “But there is now NO Arkham show in active development at DC. They could always repeat it later with a new author, but the original project that Max committed to in 2020 is dead. That was the Gotham PD show, which Reeves said had “kind of evolved” into a Arkham Show. Anything that is being developed now would be completely new and separate from that.”

“You could always repeat it later with a new author, but
the original project that Max committed to in 2020 is dead
.”

As Otterson suggested, it’s always possible that a new series will be made for the DCU set in Arkham Asylum, but it would be developed completely from scratch. In the meantime, there will be more exploration of the world of The Batman. A spin-off series starring Colin Farrell as the Penguin is coming to Max in September, and Robert Pattinson’s Batman is rumored to make a special appearance. A sequel to The Batman is also in development.

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“Currently Matt (Reeves) is producing Arkham as a DCU series,” Gunn said on social media in December, clarifying the status of the project. “Yes (it is set in the DCU). We love Matt as a director and producer, so he will tell stories both within his The Batman Universe and within the DCU.”

Arkham Asylum loses its Max series

Arkham Asylum is an iconic place in Batman Stories. It is very well known as the setting of the successful video game Batman: Arkham Asylumone of the most popular games featuring the Dark Knight. The facility was first introduced in the comics in 1974 and was imagined as a super-prison designed to house criminals with superhuman abilities.

Source: X