Zach Cregger’s Saving His DC Movie ‘Henchman’ For the Proper Time

Final month, we discovered Zach Cregger had one other undertaking on his fingers: Henchman for DC. As soon as once more written and directed by him, the film would star a low-level goon that strikes up within the crime world after apparently taking down Batman, much like the Batman: The Animated Sequence episode “The Man Who Killed Batman.”

Henchman was only a script on the time, however you may think about Cregger would get to truly pitching it as soon as he had some free time. Now, it seems like we’ll be ready some time, as he informed ScreenRant he’d hold it to himself for now. His reasoning comes right down to the rising quantity of Batman initiatives, which incorporates The Batman Part II and Clayface. “I like that script, however Gotham Metropolis IP is essentially the most coveted,” he defined. “Proper now, there’s lots of people which have their very own form of taste. It’s a really form of crowded enjoying discipline, and my film, I don’t suppose it actually matches into any of that.”

Cregger assured he’s not put out by fellow creators like Matt Reeves and James Gunn. However with so many “hurdles” round Batman in the mean time, he’s going to “depart [things] to the universe” earlier than approaching Gunn and DC with Henchman. Optimistically, he known as the script “an important story, I believe it’s superior. When that door opens, I’ll fortunately step by way of it.” Simply possibly don’t anticipate it for at the very least two or three years.

Till then, we’ve acquired Weapons, which just lately came to digital, and his Resident Evil film on September 18, 2026.

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