DC Head James Gunn Says Ta-Nehisi Coates's Superman Movie Could Still Happen

In February 2021, Shadow and Act revealed that Coates would be writing the script for the new feature. "To be invited into the DC Extended Universe by Warner Bros., DC Films and Bad Robot is an honor," Coates said in a statement to the online publication at the time. "I look forward to meaningfully adding to the legacy of America's most iconic mythic hero." That May, The Hollywood Reporter reported that the script was due December 2021, but there's been no major update on what stage the project is in (and Gunn says he hasn't read a script).

Coates is best-known for penning the nonfiction books "The Beautiful Struggle," "We Were Eight Years in Power," and "Between the World and Me," and the novel "The Water Dancer." In the comic-book world, he's written issues of Black Panther and Captain America comics.