At The Game Awards 2021, Warner Bros. had a huge surprise announcement — we were finally getting a Wonder Woman game. But now, it looks like that Wonder Woman game could be in big trouble, even having a full reboot in January 2024.
A new report from Bloomberg details the financial woes currently felt by Warner Bros. Games and some of the projects it currently has in the works. The Wonder Woman game has apparently “struggled to coalesce,” and despite it already costing the company more than $100 million, Bloomberg says it was rebooted early last year and is likely still years out from release. That means we could be seeing an entire decade, or more, between announcement and release.
It’s also seemingly the only game developer Monolith Productions has been working on. At the same time, the studio’s trademark Nemesis System, used in the Middle Earth games, was originally supposed to be in Wonder Woman, but has now been entirely removed in favour of a “more traditional action-adventure game”
Seeing Woman Woman pushed so far out is bad enough, but it’s especially grim in light of the financial performance of some of WB’s games. 2023’s Hogwarts Legacy was obviously a tremendous success, but after that, the company took a $200 million hit on the catastrophic failure of 2024’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Games like Quidditch Champions and MultiVersus have also failed to turn a profit, with WB announcing this week that MultiVersus is getting shut down. All of this has led to the head of WB Games, David Haddad, stepping down from his role in the near future.
The rest of Bloomberg’s report covers what each of WB’s major studios are currently working on. WB Games Montreal was, at different points, pitching a game around Constantine and The Flash, but both never got off the ground. At the moment, Montreal is apparently helping on other projects while trying to pitch a Game of Thrones game. But Bloomberg reports a source close to the matter says most of the leadership of the studio has resigned, because of both a lack of games and frustration at management.
Avalanche Software continues to work on new content and a sequel for Hogwarts Legacy. But the other surprise is that Rocksteady Studios, coming off the failure of Suicide Squad, is apparently working on a new single-player Batman game. Though, like Wonder Woman, that’s likely years out.
