Gunn’s Elseworlds initiative brings bold, standalone DC stories to life but faces the challenge of balancing fan excitement ...

The concept of Elseworlds, which was used in Suicide ... succeeding in killing some of DC's most beloved heroes. Flash, Green Lantern, Batman, and Superman all fell under Brainiac's mind control ...

In fact, the live-action DC properties have already connected Keaton’s Batman to Ezra Miller’s The Flash when 1989’s Batman movie was tied to the Crisis on Infinite Earth’s crossover event ...

with Elseworlds referring to standalone projects like The Batman that exist independently of the DCU. “I want the freedom to tell Elseworld stories,” he said. The Batman director Matt ...