In fact, there’s already an example of this in the DCU. Batman appearing in Creature Commandos is exactly this. They don’t know who is playing Batman yet, nor what the specific story of his film will be, but they know they are going to make a Batman film. Batman is out there. So that’s why that got a tease.

James Gunn recently gave a group of reporters a status update on the DCU at a DC Studios presentation. Among many other tidbits revealed, we learned that Gunn is already hard at work scripting the next DCU movie he’ll direct after Superman. He’s certainly keeping very busy these days.

Fans are eager for the DCU to match the scale and Marvel Cinematic Universe, but DC Studios co-chairmen James Gunn and Peter Safran are just taking it one movie at a time. They spoke about their plans at a recent press event attended by ComicBook,