WB Slates ‘Dynamic Duo’ Animated Film for 2028; Confirms ‘Clayface’

Warner Bros. Photos Animation has formally set the discharge of DC Studios’ animated Batman-verse film Dynamic Duo, spotlighting the origins of two Robins: Dick Grayson (later often called Nightwing) and Jason Todd (Pink Hood). The primary joint challenge of the 2 refabbed studios will launch to IMAX on June 30, 2028.

Produced in partnership with L.A.-based puppet animation outfit Swaybox Studios (its debut characteristic movie) and Matt Reeves’ sixth & Idaho, the film will likely be a blended media actioner — “a mixture of animation, puppetry, and CG,” as beforehand revealed by DC Studios head James Gunn. The story penned by Matthew Aldrich will present how younger Grayson and Todd’s friendship turns into examined by their diverging visions of their respective futures.

Aldrich’s credit embrace the unique story and screenplay for Pixar’s Coco, for which he gained an Annie Award (shared with Alfred Molina) and was nominated for a Humanitas Prize, and the studio’s Toy Story spinoff Lightyear.

Dynamic Duo is being directed by Swaybox co-founder Arthur Mintz. Producers are Swaybox co-founder Theresa Andersson, and sixth & Idaho’s Reeves and Lynn Harris.

Warner and DC have additionally signaled that the standalone live-action Clayface characteristic goes forward, assigning horror grasp Mike Flanagan to jot down the screenplay and setting a theatrical launch for September 11, 2026.

The reported “horror-thriller-tragedy” will likely be produced by Reeves and Harris as properly, and can precede an anticipated look by the crusty mutated villain in The Batman Half II (Oct. 6, 2026).

The DC Studios launch slate additionally contains Gunn’s Superman (July 11, 2025), Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl: Girl of Tomorrow (June 26, 2026) and two untitled films (Could 29, 2026 and March 5, 2027).