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Over the years there have been numerous Batman cartoons that have come and gone. And though none of them could ever live up to what Batman: The Animated Series was in the ’90s, a new series might actually give the classic series a run for it’s money.
According to Deadline, Prime Video’s Batman: Caped Crusader is set to premier on the streaming network Aug. 1. Judging from the first picture stills provided, the animation style seems like it will be akin to that of the classic 1990s television series. A production of Warner Bros. Animation, Bad Robot Productions and 6th & Idaho, Batman: Caped Crusader was set to release on HBO Max before it was canceled due to budget concerns. Now that it’s on Prime Video, fans will get to see what J.J. Abrams and company have in store for us. The series is said to be set in the 1940s as Batman was introduced to the world in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Hella clever.
Deadline reports:
The series comes from EPs J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves and Bruce Timm. Based on DC characters, Along with Abrams, Reeves and Timm, Batman: Caped Crusader executive producers include Ed Brubaker, James Tucker, Daniel Pipski, Rachel Rusch Rich and Sam Register.
In the series, the corrupt outnumber the good as criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear in Gotham City. Forged in the fire of tragedy, wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne becomes something both more and less than human—the Batman. His one-man crusade for justice attracts unexpected allies within the GCPD and City Hall, but his heroic actions spawn deadly, unforeseen ramifications.
All that Wayne Tech stuff in the 1940s should be rather interesting. We can’t wait.
Check out some pics of the upcoming series, and let us know if you’re as excited as we are in the comments section below.
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Alan Moore is fed up with comic book films and is putting the royalty checks from them he no longer wants to good use.
Spotted on Variety via The Telegraph, Alan Moore, comic book visionary who penned classic works like Watchmen, V For Vendetta, and Batman: The Killing Joke, is no longer accepting his royalty checks for films and television series based on his works from DC Comics and instead told the iconic comic book distributor to give them to Black Lives Matter.
Per Variety:
The Telegraph asked Moore if reports were true about him taking all of the money he makes from film and TV series and dividing it among the writers and other creatives, to which the writer answered: “I no longer wish it to even be shared with them. I don’t really feel, with the recent films, that they have stood by what I assumed were their original principles. So I asked for DC Comics to send all of the money from any future TV series or films to Black Lives Matter.”
Moore told The Telegraph that he is no longer interested in money. In past interviews, he has been openly critical of superhero films, calling them a “blight” on cinema and “also to culture to a degree.”
He wasn’t done. In a 2022 interview with The Guardian, he called adults being excited about superhero films an “infantilization” that can act as “a precursor to fascism.”
Ouch.
Alan Moore Is Not Here For Adults Infatuation With Comic Books & Superhero Films
He was also worried about “hundreds of thousands of adults lining up to see characters and situations that had been created to entertain the 12-year-old boys — and it was always boys — of 50 years ago,” noting he never thought superheroes were something adults should care about.
“I didn’t really think that superheroes were adult fare,” Moore continues. “I think that this was a misunderstanding born of what happened in the 1980s — to which I must put my hand up to a considerable share of the blame, though it was not intentional — when things like ‘Watchmen’ were first appearing. There were an awful lot of headlines saying ‘Comics Have Grown Up’. I tend to think that, no, comics hadn’t grown up. There were a few titles that were more adult than people were used to…I will always love and adore the comics medium, but the comics industry and all of the stuff attached to it just became unbearable.”
Another thing Moore takes issue with is the term “graphic novels,” he pointed out in his latest interview with The Telegraph.
“Now they’re called ‘graphic novels,’ which sounds sophisticated, and you can charge a lot more for them,” he added. “These innocent and inventive and imaginative superhero characters from the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s are being recycled to a modern audience as if they were adult fare.”
Well, he’s definitely not interested in seeing James Gunn’s new DCU.
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HBO Max might’ve had no use for a Batman: Caped Crusader series, but Amazon Prime certainly feels like they can work wiith a new animated Batman series and truth be told, we agree.
According to Deadline, Amazon will be picking up the J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves and Bruce Timm animated Batman series a few years after HBO Max passed on the project, which was supposed to hit their streaming service back in 2021. Unfortunately for Abrams and company, the Caped Crusader series was one of six animated projects that was axed by Warner Bros. Discovery streamer due to its cost-cutting maneuvers.
Surprisingly with the success of Matt Reeves’ The Batman, you’d think Warner Bros. would circle back to the animated series, especially since they decided to give The Penguin his own spinoff saga. But ultimately Amazon swooped in looking for another dub to it’s already successful streaming platform.
From Deadline:
Batman: Caped Crusader is a “reimagining” of the Batman mythology, based on the characters from DC.
It is produced by Warner Bros. Animation, Bad Robot Productions and 6th & Idaho with Timm, Abrams, Reeves, Sam Register, Ed Brubaker exec producing.
Timm is behind the classic Batman: The Animated Series, which ran for over 100 episodes in the mid-90s.
’80s babies remember just how next level Batman: The Animated Series was so y’all know we’re looking forward to what he has in store for a new Batman mythology. HBO Max might’ve dropped the ball on this one. Just saying.
No word on when we can expect Amazon to premier Batman: Caped Crusader, but we wouldn’t be surprised if it happens around the same time that the sequel to Matt Reeves’ The Batman drops, which should be some time in 2025.
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