{"id":179121,"date":"2025-12-07T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/179121\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:15:09","slug":"mason-thames-reveals-most-exciting-aspects-of-new-dc-universe-and-possibility-of-robin-big-screen-return-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/179121\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason Thames Reveals Most Exciting Aspects Of New DC Universe And Possibility of Robin Big Screen Return (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

DC Studios got their new era of DC films off to a stellar start with James Gunn\u2019s Superman, which has already been green-lit for a sequel in Man of Tomorrow<\/a>. While the Man of Steel is set, there are still plenty of questions regarding Wonder Woman and Batman. Whenever Batman does get brought into the mix, he will likely join the universe alongside a Robin, and How to Train Your Dragon star Mason Thames<\/a> has expressed in the past that he would love to play Robin on the big screen. ComicBook caught up with Thames to talk about possibly playing Robin in the new look DCU<\/a> compared to the previous era, the superheroes that first got him into comics, and seeing Robin return to the big screen.<\/p>\n

Thames has loved the character of Robin for a long time, so the possibility of suiting up in James Gunn\u2019s DCU is a compelling one, especially since it would be Robin\u2019s return to the big screen after a lengthy absence. \u201cYeah, what I love so much about it is, what I hope they do is, they have a chance to lean into such a fantastical world of Batman and Gotham and his Rogues, and just Robin himself because we\u2019ve only, pretty sure we\u2019ve only seen him on the big screen once,\u201d Thames said. \u201cI mean, technically, if you count Dark Knight Rises and Titans of course, but I think there\u2019s a really cool chance they could do something really, really cool with it, and I\u2019m just excited to see what they do with it. Whether I\u2019m in it or not. I trust James Gunn. Gunn never jams. So yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thames loves how expansive and inventive the world of comics can be, and when those stories are adapted well, they result in films like Sam Raimi\u2019s Spider-Man movies and Matt Reeves\u2019 The Batman, and both franchises quickly became favorites. \u201cI\u2019ve just always loved comic books. That\u2019s my thing. Spider-Man itself, I remember when I was a kid I used to go to my grandparents\u2019 house, and they had like three DVDs, and it was Spider-Man 1, 2, and 3, Tobey Maguire, and I watched those religiously, and I watched The Batman in theaters like four times with my dad consecutively,\u201d Thames said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something about it, there\u2019s a wonder to it. I mean, it\u2019s going to that theater and sitting down and going into this world, like the new Superman movie. It gave me a lot of hope, and that\u2019s exactly what it meant to do. I think comic books in general, whatever you\u2019re looking for, they can give it to you, you know. Like literally what you\u2019re saying, if you want horror, if you want a romance, if you want this crazy, crazy event, it can give it to you, and I think it\u2019s definitely a safe space for me,\u201d Thames said.<\/p>\n

Recently, the comics world has seen the rise of DC\u2019s Absolute Books, including what feels like a 10-foot-tall Batman at times, and Thames loves the swings the teams are taking with each book. \u201cLove it. I remember I saw the first page of what Joker looked like, oh God, just like his jacket itself. It\u2019s wild. And I love just the, I think it\u2019s just so cool that we can go any route with comic books and just seeing where they\u2019re taking Superman and Wonder Woman,\u201d Thames said. \u201cI\u2019ve been watching the Wally West Flash they\u2019re doing and Batman himself, just the fact they\u2019re taking all the important parts that make Batman Batman and taking that away and seeing what happens, it\u2019s really cool. It\u2019s really fascinating what they\u2019re doing with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps we\u2019ll see Thames have a chance to bring Robin to life on the big screen, and there\u2019s certainly a case to be made that he would be a perfect Dick Grayson. Only time will tell, but in the meantime, you can catch Thames in The Black Phone 2 and How to Train Your Dragon live-action on VOD and streaming.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below\u00a0and join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DC Studios got their new era of DC films off to a stellar start with James Gunn\u2019s Superman,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4204,93,1302,61,60,60863,270,57251,27452],"class_list":{"0":"post-179121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-dc-studios","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-exclusive","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mason-thames","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-regular-news","16":"tag-robin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}