Warner Bros. recently confirmed that they were still moving forward on a movie centered on Zatanna, the backwards spellcasting mage of the DC Universe. While the title role has yet to be cast, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker has come aboard to pen the script, and considering it’s Promising Young Woman‘s Emerald Fennell, this could get very interesting.
According to Variety, Fennell has been tapped to pen Zatanna, which comes from DC Films and JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions.
Zatanna’s popularity has been fairly recent. Created in 1964, she’s the magician daughter to another well-known mage, Action Comics hero John Zatara, and as such has gained many of his powers. She has been closely tied to the Justice League and the paranormal squad known as Justice League Dark, and has a longtime friendship with Batman. She’s also been in a romantic relationship with John Constantine, so Zatanna carries a lot of threads that could take the DCEU in interesting directions.
I’ll be curious to see if Fennell ends up directing Zatanna, as well. If she happens to come away with some Oscars you can bet WB will be ringing her phone to make that offer.
