The future of the live-action DC Universe is continuing to grow and evolve, especially amid the recent news surrounding the creation of the newly-minted DC Studios. The division of Warner Bros. Discovery, which will be run by James Gunn and Peter Safran, will oversee a majority of film and television projects inspired by DC’s comics. That news has raised a lot of questions about the future of various in-development projects— including Black Canary, a spinoff of 2020’s Birds of Prey. The project, which would see Jurnee Smollett reprise her role as Dinah Lance / Black Canary, was first announced to be in the works as an HBO Max-exclusive movie in August of 2021, and official updates have been few and far between ever since. When asked about Black Canary “coming up next year” during a recent appearance on The Cut’s In Her Shoes podcast, Smollett played coy — even about the hypothetical time table of when the film will become a reality.
