DC's ZATANNA Movie That J.J. Abrams Was Working On Has Been Scrapped at HBO Max

HBO Max has made yet another cut to their DC movie slate, with the Zatanna movie that J.J. Abrams had been attached to direct. Promising Young Woman writer/director Emerald Fennell was set to write the pic, but HBO has apparently quietly backed away from the project.

In a recent report from The Hollywood Reporter, the future of DC was being speculated, and the following was slipped into the article:

“The megaproducer had a few setbacks when some of his DC shows — based in the supernatural corners of DC and featuring characters such as Constantine and Zatanna — were scrapped at WBD’s HBO Max streaming service.”

It went on to say that Constantine and Zatanna are now being shopped to other streamers. So there might still be a chance that we could see an adaptation. The character is described by DC as “Intelligent, confident, self-assured and able to manipulate reality itself with her vast magical abilities, Zatanna balances her time as a skilled stage illusionist with battling the dark arts alongside some of the world's greatest super heroes.”

Would you still like to see Zatanna get made into a movie or series?