Nightwing director Chris McKay gives casting and filming update…

When it was recently revealed that The LEGO Batman Movie director Chris McKay was set to direct a Nightwing movie, there was a flurry of excitement.

McKay certainly knows his stuff, having recently said of the character: “All of Robin/Nightwing’s successes and failures (in the comics) we were along for the ride. And people that underestimated Robin or dismissed him perhaps had their opinions changed as we watched him “grow up” right in front of us. His relationships, his conflicts with Batman et al felt real to me because he was the window character with which we experienced Gotham City.”

But now McKay has taken to Twitter to reveal some cool details about the movie. Or rather about the casting and filming.

He revealed that the casting will begin soon, it will be an open casting and, so long as the script is ‘crazy great’ filming could begin next year.

We reckon the comments on the casting could be tied to Power Rangers and Stranger Things 2 star, Australian Dacre Montgomery teasing on Instagram that he’s up for/interested in/likes Nightwing.

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So is Sandberg basically telling us that no-one has been cast so don’t be jumping to conclusions? We think so…

He also showed he’s a BIG comic nerd… Danny the Street? How many of you would catch that reference?

Anyway, check out how it all unfolded below and let us know your thoughts or, even better, who you’d cast as Dick Grayson/Nightwing for the DC Cinematic Universe.

Here’s the breakdown of the reveals:

We haven’t started the process of casting NIGHTWING yet but when we do you’ll hear something because our search will be far and wide

— Chris McKay (@buddboetticher) November 5, 2017

When pressed by a fan, he also said that, providing the script is ‘crazy great’, production should start next year:

Yes I think it can provided the script is crazy great

— Chris McKay (@buddboetticher) November 5, 2017

When one fan asked about an obscure character from Doom Patrol called Danny the Street, a living street (yes, really) who movies around towns and cities appearing solely to make people happy by creating drag strips, theatres, shops, whatever he thinks people would like – oh, and he’s apparently a cross-dressing street who likes dressing his shops in frilly awnings and curtains on gunshops etc. You need to read this page because Danny also becomes Danny the World and Danny the Brick. For the record, we’d watch the heck out of a Danny the Street movie… anyway:

By crazy, you mean time travelling Nightwing fighting Gorilla Grodd and Danny the Street pic.twitter.com/PEQv3RqHS0

— CinematicBanter (@CinematicBanter) November 5, 2017

Proving that he knows his stuff, McKay replied:

Doom Patrol reference? My man! You know I’m a huge Doom Patrol fan. Someday….

— Chris McKay (@buddboetticher) November 5, 2017

Then when asked if Nightwing would be an open casting (rather than an actor already in mind for the role):

If you do an open casting call I will actually cry tears of joy. Nightwing needs an open casting.

— Pumpkin King 🎃 (@ImJesseDavis) November 5, 2017

McKay replied:

I hope you have lots of Kleenex

— Chris McKay (@buddboetticher) November 5, 2017