DC Films' future plans will be more radical, with DC Extended Universe and Multiverse

Recently, DC Films President Hamada Walter said in an interview with The New York Times that DC Films will adopt a more aggressive strategy in the future. Starting from 2022, it plans to release four movies in theaters each year and launch one or two exclusive movies on HBO Max.

Hamada Watt said that DC will have two movie universes: the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) and the DC Movie Multiverse. The multiverse will consist of individual stories based on DC characters and will not participate in a larger narrative linkage. The 2019 "Joker" was not in the DC Extended Universe, but it was unexpectedly successful. Now "Joker" and the new "Batman" movie will be part of the DC Movie Multiverse.

Wonder Woman, Shazam!, Aquaman, The Flash, and future Superman and Green Lantern movies will still belong to the DC Extended Universe. They will have their own independent movies and then get together again in the story of Justice League.

Whether the complexity of the multiverse can be understood by the audience is a question. Hamada Watt admitted that no one has tried it in the film yet. Comics and TV series have longer stories, so there is more narrative space for people to understand. "But the audience is mature enough to understand," Hamada Watt said. "If we make a good movie, they will keep up."

In addition, the storyline of Zack Snyder's version of "Justice League" was described as a "dead end with no way out", and the film was not included in the new blueprint of DC Films.