Steven Spielberg Is Heading to the DCEU With ‘Blackhawks’

A WWII ace fighter pilot focused comic book movie is a perfect fit for the director.

Warner Bros., which co-produced Ready Player One, must be happy about their relationship with Steven Spielberg. The studio just announced they will once again team up with Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment to adapt the DC Comics title “Blackhawks.”

The announcement suggest that Spielberg might also direct, but you never know how that will shake out, especially since he’s slated to do Indiana Jones 5 and the West Side Story remake next. He’s a busy man.

The property is an older one. The comic series started in 1941, created by Chuck Cuidera, Bob Powell, and Will Eisner. Basically, the Blackhawks were a team of pilots who operated from a hidden base and fought against tyranny of all stripes.

Now, it just so happens that we might have already gotten a small bit of Blackhawks on the big screen. There’s been speculation that some of the characters from Wonder Woman were actually potential members of that organization. Said Taghmaoui, who played Sameer, even tweeted this out last year:

Coming soon.! pic.twitter.com/IImydGJXB0

— Said Taghmaoui (@SaidTaghmaoui) May 9, 2017

Wonder Woman is a World War I film. The Blackhawks are a World War II team. It isn’t out of the realm of possibility for some good old fashioned DCEU world building to let some of those characters evolve into their own properties. I mean, that’s the idea of creating an extended universe, right?

Wonder Woman was a big winner for Warner Bros. It makes a ton of sense that they would want to expand their classic war film footing with something like the Blackhawks. But, what brings Spielberg to the table?

The project is clearly a fit for him. World War II. Action. Adventure. Good Guys versus Bad Guys. All his favorite elements are there. WWII ace pilot throwback? That’s pure Spielberg Home Run Territory. Granted, he wouldn’t have called this kind of flick a comic book movie. But, maybe that’s exactly what the DCEU needs.

His passion will inject something personal into the universe that it doesn’t quite have. He’s got a connection with that type of film. Back in 1952, there was a film serial adaptation of the Blackhawks property that certainly could have caught his eye. After all, serials were a major inspiration for Indiana Jones.

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