DC Studios is reportedly developing an animated Jurassic League movie.
According to Jeff Sneider’s The InSneider, James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios and Sam Register’s Warner Bros. Animation are developing an animated movie based on the Jurassic League limited comic series.
Brian Lynch — who previously wrote 2015’s Minions and 2016’s The Secret Life of Pets, among other titles — is reportedly writing the script for the movie. Gunn and Safran will both produce.
What is The Jurassic League?
Published in 2022, The Jurassic League was co-written by Daniel Warren Johnson and Juan Gedeon, while Gedeon also illustrated the six-issue series. The Jurassic League is set in an alternate reality (Earth 27) where major DC Comics heroes and villains are all anthropomorphic dinosaurs.
Superman, for example, is a Brachiosaurus, while Batman is an Allosaurus, the Joker is a Dilophosaurus, and Wonder Woman is a Triceratops.
Along with the limited series, the Jurassic League made an appearance near the end of DC’s Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths 2022 storyline event; more specifically, they were one of several realities that Barry Allen and Wallace West visit when trying to find the Anti-Monitor in Dark Crisis: Big Bang. Dark Crisis: Big Bang comes from Mark Waid, Dan Jurgens, Norm Rapmund, Federico Blee, and Troy Peteri.
There’s no word yet regarding a release date for The Jurassic League. While not confirmed, the movie will presumably be an Elseworlds-type project similar to 2023’s Merry Little Batman. Gunn confirmed in December 2023 on Threads that animated Elseworld projects that exist outside of the main DCU timeline will continue to be made once his and Safran’s new shared universe gets up and running.
The DCU officially begins later this year with an animated Creature Commandos series (which is canon to the new shared universe) before Superman: Legacy then releases in 2025.
