DC: ‘Superman: Legacy’ and ‘The Penguin’ Will Not Be Affected by the Ongoing WGA Strike

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If you’re following the news, you probably know that all the members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) are currently on strike. We’re talking about around 20,000 screenwriters who are on strike after WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) didn’t negotiate an acceptable new contract. Many movie and TV productions are expected to be delayed because of this strike, and it’s unknown how long the strike will last.

But, some projects that are currently in development will continue their production regardless of the strike. DC fans will be glad to hear that the upcoming movie Superman: Legacy and the upcoming TV series The Penguin will continue their production since James Gunn, writer/director of Superman: Legacy, has already turned in the movie’s script last week, and all the episodes of The Penguin have already been written, and the filming will continue as planned.

The Wrap had exclusively learned that James Gunn turned in the first draft of the script for Superman: Legacy last week, just a few days before the strike began. The Wrap has also learned the fate of many TV productions that are currently underway. The Penguin and the second season of HBO’s House of the Dragon are continuing filming as planned, and the second season of Amazon’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will also continue but without any writers and showrunners present on the set.

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DC Studios is currently working on developing their new cinematic universe, DCU, which will kick off in July 2025 with Superman: Legacy, written and directed by James Gunn. What is known is that Gunn has been actively working on the movie for the last few months, although we still don’t know who will play the next Man of Tomorrow.

The Batman movie, written and directed by Matt Reeves, was released last year, and the movie will get a sequel separated from DCU in 2025. But before the sequel, next year we will watch the spin-off series The Penguin starring Collin Farrell, who reprises the role of Oswald “Oz” Cobblepot he played in The Batman. The series is set to follow the titular character’s rising to a criminal kingpin in his own right.

Superman: Legacy is set to be released on July 11, 2025. The Penguin is expected to premiere on Max in 2024.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.

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