Rumor: Four live-action Batman movies may release in 2019; DC plans leaked

Batman is arguably DC's most popular/profitable character. He's had dozens of movies, shows, video games, and thousands of comic book appearances. He's become so popular since his creation in 1939 that DC created several younger characters that Batman has taken under his wing. They've gotten their own comics and have appeared on screen with The Dark Knight, becoming just as iconic as Batman.

Nightwing and Batgirl are set to receive their own films helmed by The Lego Batman director Chris McKay and The Avengers director Joss Whedon respectively. While no plans for these movies have officially been confirmed, a leak indicates those two movies, Matt Reeves' standalone Batman film, and the female-led Gotham City Sirens will all release on Batman's 80th birthday in 2019.

The films will be spread out throughout the year starting with Gotham City Sirens in February and ending with The Batman in November. In addition to these live action films, two animated Batman films will be released in 2019 as well.

The plan for 2019 is to release four Batman related films. Gotham City Sirens around Valentine’s Day weekend, Nightwing on Memorial Day weekend, Batgirl in August and The Batman in November. The studio is doing this to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of Batman.

The Batman film will still have Deathstroke but not as a main villain. Matt Reeves wants to do a larger scale Batman film that will include the Bat family as well as most of Batman’s rogues.

In addition, two Batman animated films are also planned for 2019. One will be an adaptation of The Long Halloween.

Grant Wilson might be the villain for the Nightwing solo film. He is hired by Roland Desmond to take out all the mob bosses in Blüdhaven.

In addition to all this, some details about the overall plans for the DC cinematic universe have also leaked. Mel Gibson appears to have declined the offer of directing Suicide Squad 2, Justice League Dark may be coming very soon, and Warner Bros. plans to not make every DC movie a big budget Hollywood blockbuster. You can view the details below.

Suicide Squad 2 or Dark Universe will most likely be taking Aquaman’s previous release date.

Mel Gibson is no longer the front runner to direct the Suicide Squad sequel. Jaume Collet-Serra and Ruben Fleischer are now the top candidates. The script is currently being written with a story pitch given by Ayer. Killer Frost will be the new female lead to replace Harley Quinn.

The Dark Universe script is going through final rewrites. Guillermo Del Toro’s old treatment was used as a base and was rewritten to connect to the universe. If Liman is ready, filming could start as early as summer.

Four movies are also planned for 2020. Warner Bros wants to do two low budget/smaller scale films and two big budget/larger scale films per year.

Jonathan Levine is in talks to direct The Flash. The film will most likely release in 2020.

Matthew Vaughn will most likely write the Man of Steel sequel if he takes on the directional duties.

As always, take these rumors with a grain of salt. They could be completely fake but with the number of projects DC has in the works, it wouldn't be a complete surprise if they wanted to release all of their Batman related projects in one year.

The next DC movie will be Wonder Woman which releases on July 2nd, 2017. It'll be followed up by Justice League on November 17th.

[Reddit]