News The Authority James Gunn Confirms The Authority Movie Won’t Be Entering the DC Universe Anytime Soon According to James Gunn, the morally ambiguous superheroes didn’t have the best script By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 27, 2026 Photo: DC Comics Comment 0 Share New Share Photo: DC Comics James Gunn confirmed on Threads today (per Variety) that The Authority film—one of the ten projects he and Peter Safran announced when they first took over the DC Universe—isn’t currently in development. “The script wasn’t quite there but more importantly it didn’t work in terms of the larger DCU both in terms of the story and practical concerns. Maybe some day. Not soon,” he wrote. Gunn had previously described the movie adaptation as “one of my real passion projects.” In the comics, The Authority are a morally complex group of superpowered individuals who, as Gunn explained back in January 2023 when the ten projects were announced, are “basically good-intentioned, but they think that the world is completely broken and the only way to fix it is to take things into their own hands. Whether that means killing people, destroying heads of state, changing governments […] whatever they want to do to make the world better….” María Gabriela de Faría played one member of The Authority, The Engineer, in 2025’s Superman. Other characters include The Doctor, Swift, Midnighter, and Jack Hawksmoor. We don’t know what storyline DC Studios was tackling. Whatever it was, that story has gone back on the shelf, at least for the near future. Other films announced as part of those ten DCU projects, however, are almost here. We’ve already got Superman, of course, and Supergirl is set to premiere in theaters on June 26. Lanterns is heading our way soon, as well as the Clayface horror flick, which wasn’t even on Gunn and Safran’s first ten. Plenty of comics content to keep us chugging along, though The Authority will be missed. [end-mark] The post James Gunn Confirms <i>The Authority</i> Movie Won’t Be Entering the DC Universe Anytime Soon appeared first on Reactor.