Zach Cregger’s Saving His DC Movie ‘Henchman’ For the Proper Time

Final month, we discovered Zach Cregger had one other challenge on his fingers: Henchman for DC. As soon as once more written and directed by him, the film would star a low-level goon that strikes up within the crime world after apparently taking down Batman, just like the Batman: The Animated Sequence episode “The Man Who Killed Batman.”

Henchman was only a script on the time, however you possibly can think about Cregger would get to truly pitching it as soon as he had some free time. Now, it seems like we’ll be ready some time, as he informed ScreenRant he’d preserve it to himself for now. His reasoning comes all the way down to the rising quantity of Batman tasks, which incorporates The Batman Part II and Clayface. “I really like that script, however Gotham Metropolis IP is probably the most coveted,” he defined. “Proper now, there’s lots of people which have their very own type of taste. It’s a really type of crowded taking part in area, and my film, I don’t suppose it actually matches into any of that.”

Cregger assured he’s not put out by fellow creators like Matt Reeves and James Gunn. However with so many “hurdles” round Batman in the intervening time, he’s going to “go away [things] to the universe” earlier than approaching Gunn and DC with Henchman. Optimistically, he known as the script “an important story, I believe it’s superior. When that door opens, I’ll fortunately step by it.” Simply perhaps don’t count on it for no less than two or three years.

Till then, we’ve obtained Weapons, which just lately came to digital, and his Resident Evil film on September 18, 2026.

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