Culture news Warner refused this animated Batman film with sensational visuals from the creator of the animated Spider-Verse: he preferred to chain the DC failures in live action
Warner Bros. has the gift lately of alienating fans of comics, and superheroes in the broad sense, with decisions that are difficult to understand. The continuation in cinemas in 2023 of the four films from the late DC Extended Universe (all box office failures), the cancellation of Batgirl are now accompanied by the rejection of a Batman project How promising.
In early 2023, Warner Bros. Pictures decides to clean house and relaunch a dying DCEU, not without parachuting into theaters Shazam! Rage of the Gods, The Flash, Blue Beetle and to conclude this four-act cinematic drama Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. The previous year, the North American firm had simply thrown away 90 million US dollars by canceling Batgirl for reasons of tax cuts. And the latest news concerning Batman and the Justice League should finish off fans of this superheroic universe. A Batman Beyond animated film has been rejected by Warner.
Batman Beyond meets the Spider-Verse
Batman beyond is the origin an animated series broadcast under the Kid’s WB label between 1999 and 2001 on the Warner network “The WB Television Network”. Created by Paul Dini, Bruce Timm and Alan Burnett, Batman Beyond begins its plot in 2019 as a fifty-year-old Batman struggles to fight crime. Forced to use a gun to survive at the risk of killing his attacker, the Black Knight retires. 20 years later, a new Batman appears in the mean streets of a futuristic Neo-Gotham.
The project for a Batman Beyond animated film is not new and regularly resurfaces on the internet. In February 2024, Yuhki Demers (now Production Designer at Netflix) will gives hope on X (formerly Twitter) to thousands of fans of the animated series, before throwing a cold. Supposedly in development since 2018, the animated feature film was reportedly rejected by Warner. Yet, this modern Batman Beyond features polished and heavily inspired preparatory work from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. This is not surprising. Yuhki Demers worked on the animated film saga The Weaver.
This Batman Beyond was presented by artist Yuhki Demers and Patrick Harpin to Warner Bros at the end of 2023 who reportedly cut short the discussion by declaring: “there is absolutely no chance that we will make a Beyond film”. The quality of the artworks presented and the displayed desire of the two main parties would have made the audience bend without breaking away. The “never” became a “maybe”. To be continued, but we might as well say it bluntly. Batman fans pray every day for this movie to come true.
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