It was a few years ago when DC made a number of movie announcements that have since fallen into two categories: those that have moved into production and those that have not moved at all since the announcement. Falling in the latter category is Nightwing, but according to the movie's director Chris McKay, the movie isn't as dead in the water as it seems. In an interview with The Bear Cave, McKay revealed a host of new information about the project, including just how Batman would feature in an important way, and could even have had an appearance in the story. Chris McKay spoke first about where they were at with a script and how he had planned a trailer to help get Warner Bros. on board with his ideas for the movie.

"They (Warner Bros) had been working on a script before I came along. So DC had hired Bill Dubuque to write a version of Nightwing, and I came in while that script was in the process and that draft hadn't quite landed yet, but landed after I got hired. So I took that draft with some thoughts I had as far as theme and the overall genre. There were some things I wanted to combined and built a trailer and never got the chance to finish it. It's instructive to some of the things we were going to do with the movie and also what DC has embraced since then is probably the best why I can describe it."

McKay went on to say that the movie would have a dark theme of revenge and would include "a lot of villains" as it introduced Nightwing and Bludhaven. He disclosed that it would also look at the dynamic between Dick Grayson and Bruce Wayne in a way that had not been done before in the same way.

"It was going to be a real, it was going to be a character study about this guy who grew up with sort of a bad dad, How that made him as a young adult try to fight off and go as far away from that world as humanly possible and get dragged back into it."

As for the involvement of Batman, McKay went on to say that while a lot of things were still being decided and ironed out, there was a good chance that Batman would have turned up in the movie, but would not be the main focus and "loom large" over the story as a whole. He said, "It was like you were picking up a Nightwing comic. You're not guaranteed Batman was going to show up, but he could show up and other people could show up, but again you're dealing with Nightwing and that's what I like about it. I like the idea of we don't necessarily connect to certain things, we can just have it be a story that takes place in Blüdhaven or with Dick Grayson and his world. How he and why he be became Nightwing there was a lot of stuff I liked about the approach."

As for whether we will ever see Nightwing, McKay said he hasn't yet been told that the movie is cancelled, and he acknowledged that many things are constantly changing at Warner Bros. but he remains hopeful that he will be allowed to continue on the project sometime in the future. He finished by saying, "So to me, I still hold out a lot of hope I'm still going to make that movie. Maybe that's wishful thinking, but certainly, no one has said 'hey kid, you're not making that movie.' In fact, if anything they've said 'today we're not prioritizing that movie,' but they still want to make a Nightwing movie something I think is still important to them.

How the Nightwing saga ends is something that we cannot expect to know for some time yet, but if the DCEU begins to fire on all cylinders, there is every possibility the movie could be brought out of the shadows somewhere down the line.