When DC Animated started doing frame-for-panel direct adaptations of classic comics, every self-respecting Batman fan immediately wondered if they’d take on the character’s two most seminal stories, the Dark Knight Returns and Year One. While the heavily-rumored former has yet to be confirmed, the latter’s in production and apparently due over the next few months. That’s faster than I thought. The EPK from Daily Blam above says it’s coming “Summer 2011,” so I presume that means it’ll drop by September at the latest?
For those unfamiliar, Year One unsurprisingly recounts the earliest days of Batman’s crime-fighting career. A lot of its plot points have already been cherry picked and spread out over Batman Begins, the Dark Knight and, to go back a little farther, Mask of the Phantasm. Considering how the comic shows a prostitute finding inspiration to create her own Catwoman persona, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Selina Kyle parts of the Dark Knight Rises take even more cues from it. As it happens, Frank Miller wrote this and he actually tried to turn it into a movie with Darren Aronofsky right before Begins came together.
Anyway, the animation and character designs capture the noir style of the comics’ art with impressive faithfulness. And I have to say that Eliza Dushku’s an inspired choice for Catwoman. What say you Screened pups?
Consider my interest piqued. I've always loved this comic, and the dynamic between Gordon and Batman. It looks like that will come across pretty well.
I'm definitely looking forward to this one. Year One is one of the only Batman comic books I've read through, so at least I'm familiar with the source material. Also, I just kinda love Batman animated films.
Dude from the OC is Batman? Very weird though I like Cranston's Gordon and yay for Starbuck being in something non BSG and non-crappy. That being said, I am looking forward to this. I really enjoyed Year One and it's on par with Loeb/Sale's Batman books.
And this is coming from a guy who was okay with the Batman voice in TDK!
Omg, Batman's voice is TERRIBLE!
Batman's voice sounds good, considering that this is Year One batman.
Year One is typical Frank Miller faff. Kung Fu Fighting Whores and a lot of BS to justify Kung Fu Fighting Whores being plot relevant.
Just like Joss Whedon.
It's been mentioned before this post, but the clips for Batman they had in there were awful. They were really bad. Hopefully they come out better in editing.
Otherwise, the look of the characters looks great. I'm looking forward to watching this thing. Red Hood was great and I have no doubt this will be as well.
What's an EPK?
not really that happy about Ben McKenzie lending his vocal "talent" to batman, surely they could've gotten someone better to do it
This looks pretty interesting, but I'm not really digging the guy who voices Batman.