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Writer and showrunner Terrence Winter has exited HBO Max’s The Batman spinoff series, The Hollywood Reporter reveals. According to sources close to the situation, Winter and director Matt Reeves had different creative visions for the series, which is designed as a companion project to go alongside The Batman film.
When contacted, WarnerMedia and HBO Max declined to comment further.
HBO Max handed down a straight to series order for The Batman spinoff in July, with Winter, the creator of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, and Reeves attached as executive producers. The still-untitled series will continue the Batman franchise’s focus on corruption in the Gotham City Police Department, and WarnerMedia hopes that it will launch a new Batman universe across HBO Max, Warner Bros., DC Comics, and other properties within the portfolio.
While the new series, which THR reports has been going by the working title of Gotham Central, is connected to Reeves’ The Batman, the studio has not addressed whether Robert Pattinson (the franchise’s new Bruce Wayne) and Jeffrey Wright (Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon) will appear. The Batman is currently filming in the UK, but production has been shut down multiple times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of now, Warner Bros. has the film slated for a March 4, 2022 theatrical debut.
The Batman series is the first title to be produced under Reeves’ overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group. The veteran director will executive producer under his 6th & Idaho banner alongside the company’s Daniel Pipski and Adam Kassan. Dylan Clark will also serve as an executive producer with 6th & Idaho’s Rafi Crohn co-executive producing.
When the series was first announced, Reeves praised Winter as a co-collaborator, but sources tell THR that Warner Bros. has already begun searching for a new showrunner. “This is an amazing opportunity, not only to expand the vision of the world I am creating in the film, but to explore it in the kind of depth and detail that only a longform format can afford,” said Reeves at the time. “Getting to work with the incredibly talented Terence Winter, who has written so insightfully and powerfully about worlds of crime and corruption, is an absolute dream.”
