When you settle your sweet little ass into that filthy theater seat this July and hunker down to watch “The Dark Knight”, will any part of you be thinking “Yeah, this movie is kicking my ass and calling me Sally, but what happened between “Batman Begins” and this masterpiece?” Well, do you remember when the Wachowski Brothers wanted to hype up the release of the godawful “Matrix” sequels by releasing an anime DVD with several short films bridging the gap between the films and filling in some of the back story? This should be just like that, but fucking awesome. Before I go any further; how killer is this image?
“Batman: Gotham Knight” will be a collection of 6 differet short anime films filling in the story lines between “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight”, and it will be released on DVD around July of this year (before the new movie). The films will be produced and directed by Bruce Timm, who is the man behind “Batman: The Animated Series” (the best non-comic representation of the character until Christopher Nolan stepped in), “Batman Beyond” and many other excellent animated shows and features. Each film will be written by a different writer, featuring the talents of David Goyer (”Batman Begins” and one of my all-time favorite films “Dark City”), and Batman comic writers Greg Rucka and Brian Azzarello among others. Each film will have a different look altogether due to the fact that they will all be done by different animators, utilizing some of the most respected animators in the field.
Oh yeah, Christian Bale will be supplying the voice of the Caped Crusader!
I’m no fan of anime, but I’ll certainly be picking this one up.
January 7th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Thanks for the info Bro! I will be hoping for a Blu-ray release of this !!
January 7th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
an animated Batman could kick Chuck Norris’ face off
January 7th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
but then he’d get sucker-punched by the fist under chuck norris’ beard…
January 8th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Chuck Norris is a punk-ass little bitch. Batman wouldn’t even sweat him. I read on the internet that at last year’s “Do-Gooders Convention” Batman stole Jack Bauer’s lunch, and Jack just cried about it like a baby when Batman glared at him. Chuck Norris just hid away in the corner pretending not to notice anything was going on. He pulled himself into the corner so much he actually imploded. Wuss.
True story.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
random
…anyways. Its a proven fact that Batman invented oxygen, and only lets humans borrow it because he feels sorry for us
January 8th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Very true, ex-cowboy.
Though the real reason he lets us have the oxygen is because he doesn’t like his ass kickery to be entirely one sided.
January 8th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Batman is nothing if not just.
January 8th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Azzarello! Read Batman Broken City and Batman Deathblow if you don’t know who the Azz is. you should also check out 100 Bullets. I’m looking forward to this one.
January 8th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Im almost 113% positive that “Kickery” isn’t a word!
March 4th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I’m not an anime fan either, but this may be good.
March 24th, 2008 at 12:55 am
Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
and wish to assit as far as possible.