Arkham Asylum TV Series Not Moving Forward at DC Studios

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The highly anticipated DC TV series Arkham Asylum is no longer moving forward at Max / DC Studios.

In October 2022, Antonio Campos came onboard to serve as writer and showrunner of the series, which was originally meant to be set within the world of Matt Reeves’ ‘The Batman.’ However, insiders now report a new project set within the infamous Gotham City asylum could be developing in the near future without Campos. The project will likely be re-imagined.

The show was announced back in July 2020 with a multiple season commitment, and focused on the inner workings of Gotham PD as featured in ‘The Batman.’ At the time, Terrence Winter was attached to write and executive produce, but he left the project in November that year due to creative differences.

Director of ‘The Batman’ Matt Reeves in a 2022 interview said that the Gotham PD show was not happening but that the story had “started to evolve” into what became the Arkham Asylum show, in which he described as a “horror movie or a haunted house that is Arkham.” That’s when Campos joined the project, and shortly after, James Gunn and Peter Safran were announced to take over DC Studios and confirmed a rebooted DC universe.

Last year, Gunn said that the show was still in development and clarified that it was meant to be set within the new DCU rather than in the same world as ‘The Batman.’

Gunn and Safran are currently relaunching DC’s interconnected film and TV universe, as production on 2025’s ‘Superman’ in full throttle. It was also recently announced that a Green Lantern TV series has been greenlit, but it will be branded as an HBO original rather than Max due to a new content strategy.