Of course, Dick Grayson’s Robin has appeared in movies and television previously, with Burt Ward famously playing the character opposite Adam West’s Bruce Wayne in the 1960s TV series Batman and its subsequent spinoff film.

As Safran told us at the event, “It’s going to feature other members of the extended Bat-Family just because we feel like they’ve been left out of the Batman stories in the theater for far too long.” The prospect of adapting these comics, if even only loosely, should be tantalizing for Batman fans, because for the first time in live-action cinema, filmmakers are going to attempt to seriously adapt the one aspect of the Batman character that’s gone otherwise ignored: his Bat-Family. Morrison would go on to oversee some of the most popular Batman stories of the 21st century, including Batman and Robin which started in 2009 as the story of Damian taking up Robin’s mantle while Dick Grayson, the original Robin, claimed the Batman’s utility belt as his own. Gunn is alluding to comic book maestro Morrison’s seven-year run of writing Batman comics across multiple titles in the 2000s and 2010s, beginning with Batman #655 (2006) where Morrison and artist Andy Kubert introduced the world to Damian Wayne, the son of Bruce and Talia al Ghul. And we are putting that all together right now.” It’s based on the Grant Morrison comic book run, which is one of my favorite Batman runs. “He was raised as a little murderer and assassin.

“This is the story of Damian Wayne, who is Batman’s actual son, who he didn’t know existed for the first eight to 10 years of his life,” Gunn explains.

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