DC universe

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  Polygon

  

  7 hours ago

  Every DC movie and TV show scheduled for 2026 and beyond

  Polygon - Michael McWhertor

  Since taking over the DC cinematic universe in 2022, DC Studios co-chairmen and CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran have overhauled Warner Bros.' comic book-to-screen strategy. The new DCU officially launched in 2024 with the animated series Creature Commandos, and Gunn and Safran have since built out …

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  1 day ago

  Lanterns just did a bonkers rewrite of John Stewart’s comics backstory

  Polygon - Sam Nelson

  Episode 2 of HBO’s Lanterns ended with a cliffhanger: the traitorous former Green Lantern Sinestro (Ulrich Thomsen) warns his former protégé Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) that the greatest threat he’s facing is his new trainee John Stewart (Aaron Pierre). That’s a dramatic assessment, given Hal visited …

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  1 day ago

  Lanterns hides a major Batman villain Easter egg in plain sight — possibly two

  Polygon - Corey Plante

  John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) has already spent two months training to become a Green Lantern when HBO’s Lanterns begins, but episode 3 flashes back to the strange interview that led to him landing the job. Inside an abandoned shopping mall, a Guardian of the Universe played by Laura Linney questions …

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  5 days ago

  The Joker just became the new lead of 2026's near-perfect Batman game

  Polygon - Willa Rowe

  Lego and Batman goes together like peanut butter in jelly in a way that shouldn't work as well as it does. 2017's Lego Batman Movie turned out to be one of the best films about the Caped Crusader ever made. The same is true for video games. Just look at this year's Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark …

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  HBO officially changes a fundamental rule of DC superhero canon

  Polygon - Corey Plante

  In 2014’s Justice League: War, heroes including Superman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash unite to defend Earth from an invasion led by Darkseid. Batman and Green Lantern are among the first to stumble into an uneasy partnership. As they pursue an alien through Gotham’s sewers, Hal Jordan spends much of …

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  The HBO miniseries that inspired Lanterns is also a perfect weekend binge

  Polygon - Brian VanHooker

  The first episode of Lanterns is now on HBO Max and it's unlike anything we’ve seen before in the superhero genre. While 2017’s Logan has Western elements just like Lanterns does, the HBO Max series is more of a rural detective story/crime thriller. This is entirely new and surprising, especially …