David Dastmalchian recently spoke about the possibility of joining James Gunn’s rebooted DCU either as his Polka-Dot Man from 2021’s ‘The Suicide Squad’ or in a new role.
“I have not had any conversations with James about coming back,” the actor told ComicBook. “We so rarely get to connect. He’s the busiest person. He’s busier than even Todd McFarlane. He’s the busiest person I know in storytelling, so when we do connect, it’s mostly just talking about personal, life stuff.”
“But that being said, getting to become Abner Krill was one of the great greatest roles of my career. I don’t know how he would exist in the post events. But maybe some kind of, maybe, ‘How is Polka-Dot Man born?’ That’s a fun story. I don’t know. But no, I would love to find my way back onto a James Gunn set. I don’t know how it will happen or where, but working with him was one of the most incredible experiences of my acting career. For sure.”
James Gunn and Peter Safran took over as co-CEOs of DC Studios in October 2022, and began laying the groundwork for a rebooted cinematic universe with a team of writers right away.
“A lot of people think it’s going to be Marvel 2.0, and definitely I learned a lot of stuff at Marvel. I think that we have a lot of differences,” Gunn explained at a press event in 2023.
He continued, “We are telling a big, huge, central story that is like Marvel, except for, I think that we’re a lot more planned out than Marvel from the beginning because we’ve gotten a group of writers together to work that story out completely. But we’re also creating a universe that is like ‘Star Wars,’ where there’s different times, different places, different things, or ‘Game of Thrones,’ where characters are a little bit more morally complex.”
The first lineup for DC Studios includes ‘Superman’ in 2025 and ‘Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow’ in 2026. The slate also features undated projects like ‘The Brave and the Bold,’ ‘Swamp Thing,’ and ‘The Authority.’
Additionally, several HBO Max TV shows are in development, including ‘Waller,’ ‘Booster Gold,’ ‘Lanterns,’ ‘Paradise Lost,’ and an animated ‘Creature Commandos’ series.
