Galvanized by his work on The Lego Batman Movie, writer-director Chris McKay has come into Warner’s Nightwing movie guns blazing.
Casting is said to be well underway – for the record, Josh Gad, Colton Haynes (Arrow) and The Maze Runner‘s Dylan O’Brien have all been linked with the Dceu spinoff hitherto – and McKay has already championed the standalone movie as a “badass actioner” with a heavy dose of heart and emotion.
It’s the classic underdog story, really, as the filmmaker is of the belief that, while Dick Grayson is a world-renowned comic book character, he hasn’t been given an awful lot of screentime – particularly after Batman V Superman and Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy nudged Nightwing onto the sidelines. But that’s all about to change, as Chris McKay is actively developing his own take on the industry’s greatest side-kick. Not only that, but...
Casting is said to be well underway – for the record, Josh Gad, Colton Haynes (Arrow) and The Maze Runner‘s Dylan O’Brien have all been linked with the Dceu spinoff hitherto – and McKay has already championed the standalone movie as a “badass actioner” with a heavy dose of heart and emotion.
It’s the classic underdog story, really, as the filmmaker is of the belief that, while Dick Grayson is a world-renowned comic book character, he hasn’t been given an awful lot of screentime – particularly after Batman V Superman and Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy nudged Nightwing onto the sidelines. But that’s all about to change, as Chris McKay is actively developing his own take on the industry’s greatest side-kick. Not only that, but...
- 2/20/2018
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
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