DC’s Zatanna Movie Hires Promising Young Woman’s Emerald Fennell as Writer: Reports 3u6ss

DC's Zatanna is coming to the big screen. Warner Bros.-owned DC Films has reportedly hired Emerald Fennell — the Oscar-nominated writer and director of the Carey Mulligan-led revenge fantasy Promising Young Woman — to write a Zatanna movie. In the DC Comics, Zatanna Zatara — created by Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson in 1964 — is one of the most powerful sorcerers. She has been involved with the Justice League, had a (retconned) childhood link to Batman, and was romantically involved with John Constantine at one point. Serinda Swan previously played Zatanna in the final three seasons of The CW's Superman show Smallville.

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Emerald Fennell in The Crown season 4
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Zatanna is yet another HBO Max series reimagining from writer Guy Bolton that will tie into Justice League Dark.

Depending on how the development goes, Zatanna will end up being either the second or third DC movie headlined by a female character. The Flash is currently slated for a November 2022 release.

Fennell made her feature directorial debut with Promising Young Woman, that has The Crown season 4.