Nightwing Movie Will Feature Major Nod to Dick Grayson’s Past

The upcomingNightwingmovie will boast several nod to Dick Grayson ’s past , according to the moving picture ’s music director . The iconic DC Comics character will be headlining his own film sometime in the near hereafter as part of Warner Bros. ' DC Extended Universe . regrettably , details on the production are scarce at this stage . So far , The LEGO Batman Moviedirector Chris McKay has signed on to helm the project based on a handwriting fromThe Accountantscreenwriter Bill Dubuque .

The moving-picture show was noticeablyabsent from the studio apartment ’s DCEU slatethat was divulge at San Diego Comic - Con earlier this summer . DC Films steer honcho Geoff Johns has previously state that they will onlyreveal motion picture when they are ready , and that ’s a opinion that McKay has also express . He has stated before that he wants to make certain everything is proper before he jumps into production . Of of course , in addition to finding someone subject of portray Grayson , that means exquisitely - tuning the story so that it does the character and the fans justice - and that may intend work up the superhero ’s past .

McKay has been officious promoting the upcoming release ofThe LEGO Ninjago Movie , and in an audience withCinemaBlend , the filmmaker reveal that his DCEU film , Nightwing , will curb nod to Dick Grayson ’s past , presumptively when he ferment alongside Batman as his chum , Robin , as well as when he was in the first place a circus performer . Here ’s what he say when he was asked about Grayson ’s past come up in the picture : " Yes . In some form . There will be lots of nod . spate of nods . "

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For those that do n’t know , Dick Grayson was originally an acrobat , the youthful performer from the circus family know as the Flying Graysons . Sadly , his parents were murdered , and Bruce Wayne eventually take in Dick and trained himto become his very first sidekick , Robin . He burst onto the scene in 1940 , shortly after Batman had made his debut in Detective Comics the twelvemonth prior . After spending twelvemonth working alongside Batman , agitate crime in Gotham City and defending the satellite from extraterrestrial menace , Dick eventually grow up and proceed to Bludhaven , where he maneuver under the name Nightwing and tends to lick with the Titans .

Although the character has yet to make his unveiling in the DCEU , audiences know that he ’s out there somewhere . After all , the studio has already confirmed that theRobin courting seen in the Batcavein Zack Snyder’sBatman V Superman : Dawn of Justicebelonged to Jason Todd , the 2d Robin , who was viciously murdered by the Joker . Perhaps , in add-on to Grayson ’s time as an acrobat , his fourth dimension make for with Batman , as well as the event Todd ’s death had on him , will also come up in theNightwingmovie .