Weapons studio New Line would like to stay in the Cregger business, but up next he's got
Resident Evil for Sony, which he will shoot in Prague this fall. He also wrote a secret sci-fi movie he's hoping to go after that.
Then there's the one that's been getting attention online:
Henchmen, a potential DC Studios movie that he's called the favorite script he's ever written, and which he penned before his 2022 breakout,
Barbarian.
According to sources,
Henchmen would center on a low-level henchman in the Gotham crime world who gains notoriety after managing to incapacitate Batman through a stroke of luck.
The Dark Knight could appear briefly in the movie, while Harley Quinn and Joker are in the project as well. Cregger has not yet pitched it to DC Studios, though the company is said to be aware of his interest.
But even with Cregger being one of the most in-demand filmmakers in town, like any IP swing,
Henchmen faces several hurdles.
DC Studios hasn't yet cast a Joker or a Batman. (Harley Quinn, theoretically but probably not, could still be played by
James Gunn's
The Suicide Squad star
Margot Robbie.)
And DC bosses Gunn and
Peter Safranlikely want to be careful with anything Batman-related while they allow
The Batman filmmaker
Matt Reeves to make
The Batman Part II, and perhaps even a
Batman Part III. There's no telling what villains would factor into that one, so Gunn and Safran don't want to step on his toes and double up on villains for their universe. (A fun aside:
The Batman II is now gearing up
for a spring shoot. But first,
Robert Pattinson plans on filming a role in
Dune: Part III.)
