A Nightwing movie is currently in development by Chris McKay, the director of LEGO Batman.
McKay recently offered up he wants his Nightwing movie to blow the fans away, and now he teases to Collider that it’s bad ass!
“It’s gonna be a f-cking badass action movie with a lot of heart and emotion. It’s gonna be a crazy, fun ride. Whoever gets cast as Nightwing, and any of the other actors around, are gonna go through a f-cking boot camp experience because it’s gonna be a lot. I’m not gonna do a lot of CG. It’s gonna be all real sh-t. It’s gonna be real stuntwork, and they’re gonna need to do all of the stuff on camera and do it credibly. For the cast and the crew, it’s gonna be a visceral experience, and for the audience. It’s not gonna be like a lot of these movies where there’s a lot of CG and flying, and things like that. Everything he does is gonna have to be real. His superpower is being really f-cking good, as a human being, at fighting and gymnastics and sh-t like that, so you’re gonna see that on screen. It’s gonna be fun!”
Chris McKay also offers up what appeals to him about Nightwing, noting Nightwing is a good gateway character to the DC Universe and one that is rather unique as Nighting ages.
“You always thought Robin was the dork and were like, ‘I don’t want to be like Robin. I don’t want to play with Robin. I wanna play Batman.’ But Robin was there as a window character for little kids like me to understand Batman’s world and see into Batman’s world. There’s no other character in comics that went through this real-time transition. Every other character lives in a rough version of the age that they’re in. Very few characters actually grow up in the comics and become something else, and go from being a boy to being an adult, and have their own life and become their own thing.”
We see Chris McKay mentions casting hasn’t taken place as of yet. Who would be a good Nightwing for the DCEU?
On a side note, Dick Grayson has been cast for the live-action Titans series (not a part of the movie universe) with Brenton Thwaites playing the character.
