To write a Batman movie one must be brave and bold — just ask Matt Reeves and Mattson Tomlin, who only finished The Batman Part II's script a few short months ago. To write DC Studios' upcoming The Brave And The Bold Batman movie then surely requires even more bravery, even more boldness... and today, two and a half years on from learning that Andy Muschietti would be directing Batman and Robin's DCU debut, we now who's bravely and boldly taking on that task. Per THR's reporting, Birds Of Prey and The Flash scribe Christina Hodson has officially been tapped to write The Brave And The Bold.
One of the first movies announced when DC Studios head honchos James Gunn and Peter Safran revealed their 'Gods And Monsters' slate three years ago, The Brave And The Bold — an adaptation of Grant Morrison's acclaimed comic book run — is expected to introduce the 'Bat-family' to the DCU. For those less familiar with the comics, TBATB chiefly centres around Damian Wayne, a Robin who is in fact Bruce Wayne's actual son — albeit a son Bruce didn't know about for the first decade of his life, and a son who's a highly proficient murder-slash-assassin. It's a duo dynamic for the Dynamic Duo quite unlike anything we've seen in live-action Batman movies before, and as such THR notes both that Hodson has been working on the project since last year, and also that a proper draft may be some way off yet as DC's top brass take 'a measured approach' to bringing the comics to cinematic life.
With IT: Welcome To Derry having proven a bit of a mega-hit for Andy Muschietti at the tail end of last year, we can't be 100% certain that the scheduling gods will still allow for The Flash director to helm The Brave And The Bold — a movie that, by all accounts, has proven a bit of a tough nut to crack for Gunn and co. But with Hodson — a writer with real genre nous and proven DC bona fides — now officially aboard as writer, we're hopeful that The Brave And The Bold's bat-signal will be getting (green)lit very soon (and, dare we dream, some concrete Batman and Robin casting news to follow it.) In the meantime, hit the books Bat-fans and read the comics: they're absolutely superb.
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