James Gunn, half of the team now heading DC, learned this the hard way when he began “the saga of the holiday cheese plate,” a three-tweet arc that saw him having to issue another denial for rampant fan speculation.

James Gunn and Peter Safran are set to release what they have planned for the upcoming DC slate early this year, but some entertainment journalists (or podcasters) will never let them rest until even that early launch date hits, deciding to comb over their social media posts like Charlie trying to discover Pepe Silvia in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. To this end, James Gunn posted a simple picture of a holiday cheese platter taken in his own home. Rather than be satisfied with a nice picture of mouth-watering cheese and salami, they enhanced until they were able to make out a small stack of books on a back table. That stack? Omnibuses of Grant Morrison’s Batman run.

While Gunn admitted to liking Morrison’s runs with both Batman and Superman, he denied that the upcoming announcement for the DC slate was going to be based on a couple of collections he had set aside on a back table. Gunn has learned something of how to handle denials of late, recently batting away news he called fake during false reporting that he and Safran were stripping away the Green Lantern from Greg Berlanti and prepping the character for his return to the big screen. This Batman situation is a “Same day, different hero,” scenario since news sites refuse to sit idly by until the official announcement is made.

What is known about DC’s current Batman work is fairly easy. Todd Phillips is getting to make his Joker sequel with Joaquin Phoenix (with Lady Gaga set to play Harley Quinn) and Matt Reeves is getting to continue the world he built in The Batman, his well-received Robert Pattinson origin story. Michael Keaton, whose work in Batgirl will never be seen since that film was canned, is still rumored to appear in the upcoming Ezra Miller movie, The Flash. Ben Affleck has gone the way of Henry Cavill. And so far that’s all the available news on Batman that’s out there until James Gunn and Peter Safran tell fans what to look forward to very shortly.

DC hasn’t revealed a new Batman for the upcoming slate yet.

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Source: James Gunn/Twitter