UPDATE: Latino Review is hearing that this is a completely separate screenplay that just happens to share the same title, which makes a lot more sense than my explanation. So read everything below with that in mind.
When we checked in with David S. Goyer a month ago, he was assuring fans that the DC villains movie Supermax was still happening, hinting the Warner Bros. might be interested because they're trying to mine the DC properties they own.
But based on the news over at Bloody Disgusting, the project has changed a whole lot in a month, and one of the key elements, the hero Green Arrow, won't even be part of it at all. They're reporting that Sony-- not Warners-- has picked up the spec script from writers Christopher Allen Nelson and Mitch Rouse, and that it's a horror action movie set in a maximum security prison, but making no mention of DC characters villainous or otherwise.
So what happened? Did the whole Green Arrow/DC rogues element get dropped entirely? It seems unlikely that Sony would be able to get their hands on a script featuring all the DC villains, given that WB owns the company. It seems pretty clear that this is essentially a completely different project than the one Goyer talked up a month ago. Whether or not that's a bad thing, well, that's for you to decide.
