We’re glad we’re not the ones that have to organise all this (pic: DC Comics)



The next time there’s a new Superman or Batman game, they’ll have the same actors providing the voices as in the movies and shows.



As you may already know, DC Comics and owners Warner Bros. have announced a major new wave of movies and TV shows, as a result of Guardians Of The Galaxy director James Gunn becoming joint head of everything DC-related – in an equivalent role to Marvel’s Kevin Feige.



This has led to the announcement of new Superman and Batman films, which will form the basis of a new connected movie and TV universe following the events of the upcoming Flash film, which will reset the existing Snyderverse.



The idea is that the same actors will play the same versions of each character in movies, TV shows, and animation, but it’s also been confirmed that this will be the case for video games – although which ones isn’t yet clear.



The whole situation is confusing because it’s not until the new Superman movie in 2025 that the new version of the DC Universe will really take off and until then there’ll still be new movies that are technically part of the Snyderverse, such as Aquaman 2, that will come out after The Flash film.



Given the fact that there’ll be at least two Batman actors – Robert Pattinson for standalone movies and whoever they get for the connected ones – DC is already having to use the term Elseworlds to indicate films that are part of the main continuity and those that are not.









This will be true of games as well, since obviously there’s no time to change anything about the constantly delayed Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League , which is finally due out in May.



The only other confirmed DC Comics game at the moment is an open world Wonder Woman title by Shadow Of Mordor developer Monolith Productions, although nothing has been seen or heard of it since it was first announced via nothing but a logo and a character render.



That was a while ago now, so it wasn’t started with the idea of fitting into the new DC Universe, but there’s a chance it could be retrofitted to be part of it. Especially as there’s a new Amazon themed TV show on the way – although whether it will feature Wonder Woman, and whether she’ll be played by Gal Gadot, is unclear.









No new games were announced as part of this week’s revelations but Gunn (who worked as a scriptwriter on 2012’s Lollipop Chainsaw ) did address them in a subsequent blog :



‘It’s not like we’re going to have the Superman movie come out and have this Superman game come out. It’s more like we’ll have the Superman film come out, then maybe two years later, we have the Supergirl movie coming out. So, what’s the story in between there? Is there a Krypto game that we can play that comes in between them? Something that’s still set in the world with these characters, but is its own thing. We want to give the prominence to games that they deserve.’



Given how much else he and co-DC head Peter Safran have had to do in the last few months it’s not clear how seriously either has really thought about games, especially given how difficult it will be to organise any of this.



It’s not unknown for the same voice actor to voice the same character in multiple games, the most obvious example being the late, great Kevin Conroy as Batman, as well as many of his peers in the old DC Animated Universe.



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The idea of getting major movie stars to record dialogue at the drop of a hat, whenever needed for a video game, sounds like a logistical nightmare though, especially if you want to avoid them just phoning in the performance.



Surprisingly, though, it has happened before. The 2005 tie-in to Batman Begins features almost the entire cast of the movie, including Christian Bale and Michael Caine (Gary Oldman is the only notable absentee but he has done voice work before, most famously for Call Of Duty).



The game wasn’t very good, and they probably spent most of their budget on the actors, but it proves the concept Gunn and Safran are promoting is not impossible.









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