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ComicCon07 'The Batman' Report! « Thread Started on Jul 28, 2007, 7:46am »
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Warner Brothers animation had a lot to show on Friday at Comic-con, with clips from new seasons of both the Emmy-winning "The Batman" and a revamped "Legion of Super Heroes," all moderated by TV Guide's Rich Sands. This article is part two of that reporting. Michael Goguen returned for this panel, alongside Emmy-winning writer Alan Burnett, casting icon Andrea Romano and writer Stan Berkowitz, who's done it all from "Static Shock" to the adaptation of "DC: New Frontier."
They showed a trailer with The Batman being taken into space to meet Green Arrow, Green Lantern, The Flash and Hawkman, leading to him joining the Justice League.
"it's kind of always been a plan of ours," Goguen said. "We've always been interested in doing teamup episodes, so this is our teamup season. 13 episodes involve team ups. It's a lot of fun, a lot of action, just very fun episodes."
This Batman's more of a social animal than the dark knight detective many comics fans know.
"He's evolved now," Burnett said. "Sort of a natural leader, he tends to take control because he always seems to have a plan. I think you'll see him work individually with all the heroes you saw on the screen, and one other, and you'll see a finale with all of them. It's the natural evolution of Batman, sometimes he needs help, and then and more often than not, they need his help."
The season premiere shows Batman meeting Superman, but joining the League first. Returning as Superman and Lois Lane are voice actors George Newbern and Dana Delany. "Sometimes it's an artistic decision," Romano said of the casting. "Sometimes we need to recast, we're given a directive. This is a case of our series was picked up on Monday, and to hit our schedule, we had to record on Thursday. It takes a long time to cast, so I thought 'I think i did a good job the first time, I think I'm gonna ask them to come back.' So Clancy Brown came back, and George Newbern and Dana Delany. They're all just awesome. We try not to duplicate exactly what we've done, but sometimes it's all about the acting. I just let them loose and get out of their way."
Goguen explained a little about why the two icons would meet. "Gotham is rebuilding, Superman is coming to present a check from Metropolis. Batman has joined the Justice League before Superman, Superman is more of a loner, and more reticent to join up with any kind of League. He's a younger Superman, he's a little bit remote and serious."
To be definitive, what league is this? That's unmistakably Hal Jordan as Green Lantern, and of course Oliver Queen as the Green Arrow (his episode is an origin tale told with flashbacks, and he's voiced by Chris Hardwick). Hawkman didn't have a lot said, but Berkowitz admitted that the Flash here is intended to be Barry Allen. "All you Wally West fans can pretend it's Wally," Burnett suggested. "Our Batman has evolved, it's an updated version of the Silver Age. All of these characters are based on the Silver Age version of the characters."
"Marvel people have better origins," Berkowitz said, "and by that I mean more painful origins. This is our effort in trying to change that."
What about villains? This season we'll see Harley Quinn (voiced by erstwhile Starfire Hynden Walch), Sinestro (voiced by Miguel Ferrer), Black Mask, Scarface, Clayface, Black Mask, Bane, Metalllo, Lex Luthor, Mercy, Phosphorus, The Wrath, Mirror Master (voiced by John Larroquette -- "You wonder if Gotham's going to survive this guy," Burnett said), Hugo Strange, Toyman and Poison Ivy -- to name a few. Movies have Ra's Al Ghul, Two-Face and Scarecrow off the table for now.
Dorian Harewood returns as Martian Manhunter, Jerry O'connell will return as Nightwing (around mid season), as well as guest turns from Peter MacNicol and Patton Oswalt.
"I think there should be more chicks," Romano mused. "When I rule the animation kingdom, there will be more chicks."
"You don't rule it now?" Goguen asked incredulously.
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Re: ComicCon07 'The Batman' Report! « Reply #2 on Jul 28, 2007, 11:54am »
And I am so happy that Ivy returns! It is interesting that Nightwing is returning too Can't wait to see the designs on the charakters like Sinestro, Metallo and so...
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Re: ComicCon07 'The Batman' Report! « Reply #4 on Jul 28, 2007, 2:05pm »
Awesome news! I was beginning to get skeptical when I heard tons of new info of LOSH but none of TB anywhere, thank you GG! I cant wait for HQ, Clayface, Scarface, Hugo, Toyman, and Black Mask!
I'm confused however, you mentioned that Patton Oswalt would be coming in. Are you sure we see Toyman and not Toymaker? Or could it be both?
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Re: ComicCon07 'The Batman' Report! « Reply #7 on Jul 28, 2007, 5:11pm »
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After a clip from the finale of last season’s “The Batman,” Sands welcomed to the stage the Emmy Award-winning crew of the show. Supervising producer Alan Burnett, producer-director Michael Goguen (“Batman: The Animated Series”), Alan Berkowitz (“New Frontier”) and voice director Andrea Romano.
After last season’s finale introducing the Justice League, it was clear that they would be a big part of this coming season. “We always planned to introduce them eventually,” Goguen explained. “Once we did that we knew we could do team-ups. This season is all about team-ups.”
You can expect to see Martian Manhunter, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Hawkman and the Flash, but which Flash was up for debate. “To me it’s Barry Allen, but if Wally fans want to pretend that’s fine. We never show him without the mask,” said Burnett. “It is an updated version of the Silver Age,” said Goguen.
Some of the villains you can expect to see include Sinestro, Black Mask, Mirror Master and the Wrath. “Mirror Master will threaten Gotham in a whole new way,” said Burnett. Romano added that actor John Larroquette (“Night Court”) has been cast as the rouge.
And several characters will get origin stories in flashback form, including Green Arrow. Stan Berkowitz, who wrote that episode, explained: “Marvel has better, more painful origins. That may be why they transfer to film so well. We’re trying to change that with this and the origin we gave Hal in ‘New Frontier.’”
They then showed the audience a teaser clip of what we can expect to see on the show. Among other things, the clip featured Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen in Gotham at a tribute to Superman. There was some nice dialogue between Jimmy and Dick. The clip also included a scene of Batman and Robin fighting Metallo and Superman greeting Batman as Bruce.
After the clip Andrea Romano spoke about why she brought back voice actors George Newburn, Clancy Brown and Dana Delaney. “The show got picked up on a Monday and we had to record that Thursday. We needed a Superman, Lois and Lex. I did such a good job casting the first time that I just called them in.”
“Our Superman is different then what you’ve seen before”, Goguen said. “Our Batman joined the JLA before Superman. Our Superman is remote, serious and a loner, at first.”
The panel then took questions from the audience.
Q: Where are the female heroes? Will we see Wonder Woman or Black Canary? Goguen: Not this season, but Batgirl is in Season 5. Romano: If I ruled the animated world there would be more girls.
Q: Will we see Ra’s al-Ghul, Two-Face or the Scarecrow? Burnett: No. Those characters are tied up in the features right now.
Q: Will we see Clark? Burnett: Clark will be there and be a bumbling Clark. We’ll also see Oliver Queen and Hal Jordan.
Q: When you are doing the team-ups, will Robin or Batgirl be around? Goguen: You’ll see them.
Q: How many more seasons will there be? Romano: As many as they’ll let us do.
Q: Will we see Nightwing this season and if so, how? Goguen: Yes and it won’t be a future episode. But it is too cool to spoil.
Q: If you could do a show of any DC character, what would it be? Goguen: Green Lantern. Burnett: The Metal Men. Berkowitz: I had an idea once for an Elseworlds story. It’s the Superman story with the same origin, only Kryptonians are black. And the Kents find this baby in 1915, only he’s black. The rest would be the same.
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