Warner Bros announce two untitled DC movie release dates

Possible release dates for Gotham City Sirens, Wonder Woman 2, and Batgirl

Tuesday 18 July 2017 12:13

Thanks to the success of Wonder Woman, Warner Bros. are storming forward with their DC universe, the studio currently developing over a dozen films.

So far, only five of those features actually have release dates: Justice League (17 November), Aquaman (21 December 2018), Shazam (5 April 2019), Cyborg (3 April, 2020), and Green Lantern Corps (24 July, 2020).

Matt Reeves’s The Batman also has a speculative 2018 date, although there’s no certainty regarding when to expect the “neo-noir" adaptation.

Warner Bros. has since announced two new as-yet-untitled DC films for release in 2020, with planned releases on the 14 February and 5 June that year.

Films to get excited about in 2017

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1/13Films to get excited about in 2017

Director: Rian Johnson

Cast: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, and Lupita Nyong'o

Plot: No details yet, but it will continue directly on from Rey coming face-to-face with Luke at the end of The Force Awakens.

Release Date: 15 December 2017

Director: Taika Waititi

Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Tessa Thompson, Jeff Goldblum, Karl Urban, and Mark Ruffalo

Plot: Story details are minimal as of now, but Thor's third return to screen has already been teased to feature a loose adaptation of the famous 'Planet Hulk' storyline.

Release Date: 27 October 2017

Director: Lynne Ramsay

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Alessandro Nivola

Plot: A war veteran's attempt to save a young girl from a sex trafficking ring goes horribly wrong.

Release Date: Unknown

Director: Alex Garland

Cast: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, and Oscar Isaac

Plot: A biologist's husband disappears. She thus puts her name forward for an expedition into an environmental disaster zone, but does not quite find what she's expecting. The expedition team is made up of the biologist, an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor.

Release Date: Unknown

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Director: Todd Haynes

Cast: Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, and Amy Hargreaves

Plot: The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

Release Date: Unknown

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Director: Darren Aronofsky

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, and Ed Harris

Plot: A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

Release Date: Unknown

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Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, and Alicia Silverstone

Plot: A surgeon forms a familial bond with a sinister teenage boy, with disastrous results.

Release Date: Unknown

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Cast: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, and Jared Leto

Plot: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Release Date: 6 October 2017

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Director: Greta Gerwig

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, and Lucas Hedges

Plot: The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year.

Release Date: Unknown

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Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Mark Rylance, Oscar Isaac

Plot: The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara recounts the story of a young Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy in 1858 who, having been secretly baptized, is forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents' struggle to free their son becomes part of a larger political battle that pits the Papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.

Release Date: Unknown

Director: John Cameron Mitchell

Cast: Elle Fanning, Ruth Wilson, and Nicole Kidman

Plot: An alien touring the galaxy breaks away from her group and meets two young inhabitants of the most dangerous place in the universe: the London suburb of Croydon.

Release Date: Unknown

Director: Nikolaj Arcel

Cast: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, and Tom Taylor

Plot: Gunslinger Roland Deschain roams an Old West-like landscape in search of the dark tower, in the hopes that reaching it will preserve his dying world.

Release Date: 28 July 2017

Director: George Clooney

Cast: Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Josh Brolin, and Oscar Isaac

Plot: A crime mystery set in the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, where the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and betrayal.

Release Date: 24 November

Possible blockbusters to take those two positions currently include Justice League Dark, Suicide Squad 2, Gotham City Sirens, Batgirl, Wonder Woman 2, Nightwing, Black Adam, Man of Steel 2, The Flash and Justice League 2.

Chances are the studio are looking at either Gotham City Sirens, Wonder Woman 2, and Batgirl, to take those positions, each film having a confirmed director — David Ayer, Patty Jenkins, and Joss Whedon, respectively.

Meanwhile, Reeves has been talking about his upcoming film with Ben Affleck, confirming they have ditched the actor’s initial script treatment, instead, deciding to start from scratch.

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