Oscar winning “12 Years a Slave” screenwriter John Ridley will pen a four-issue “Batman” mini-series scheduled for January 2021.
Ridley’s series will center on the family of Wayne Enterprise’s Lucius Fox and he says: “I think it’s a pretty safe bet that if I’m writing Batman, it’s probably a little better than a 47% chance he’s going to be a person of color.”
The news came from the DC FanDome panel “Legacy of the Bat” with DC Publisher and CCO Jim Lee and Ridley on hand. Art for the comic will be by Nick Derington.
Morgan Freeman played the role of Lucius Fox in the Chris Nolan trilogy, while Chris Chalk took on the part in FOX’s “Gotham”.
Source: Black Film & TV
