After the announcement that Cartoon Network (CN) plans on cancelling the series BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD (It was about time if you ask me), it will not take them much time bring back the batman in a whole new series of CGI adventures: BEWARE THE BATMAN (and the lineup of sidekicks and villains are causing quite a buzz it seems). According to to COMIC BOOK MOVIES the announcement came from TIME WARNER: Here is a pic and the transcript fromt he announcement.
Batman: The Brave and the Bold is ending its three-season run
imminently, but DC’s iconic hero won’t be away from TV sets for too long.Comic Book Movie is reporting that Warner Bros. Animation has announced
Beware the Batman, a CGI-animated series targeted for 2013 on
Cartoon Network. The news comes from the recently wrapped MIP Junior showcase in Cannes,
France.Batman is described as “classic-looking,” fighting alongside a, wait for it,
“gun-toting Alfred Pennyworth.” With the status of a Robin currently unclear, it
looks Katana will be playing the main sidekick role, a character currently
co-starring in The New 52′s Birds of Prey. The character has a recent
past in animation, showing up Brave and the Bold episode “Enter the
Outsiders!”Along with the usual villain slate of your Jokers and your Penguins,
Beware the Batman will also feature newer and lesser-known
antagonists, with Professor Pyg — created during Grant Morrison’s
Batman run — specifically mentioned in reports.(Sam Register said that they went deeper into the rogues gallery to pull new villains. Not that we are not going to see Penguin and Joker, but we’ll see less of them. In his own words…”we didn’t want to make another Joker story…there are too many out there…” WHAT? There is never enough Joker stories if they are done right. Well, we’ll have to check this one out by ourselves when it comes out.)
World’s Finest fills in with some more details on Cartoon Network’s DC-related
offerings, saying that the “DC Nation” block is scheduled to debut in spring
2012, with a Doom Patrol series in development, along with My
Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (which has developed a surprisingly
strong online following among male “bronies” 18-35 ) showrunner Lauren Faust
working on a series of shorts starring Wonder Girl, Supergirl and Batgirl titled
“Super Best Friends Forever.”The next DC animated series to premiere will be Green Lantern: The
Animated Series, with a sneak preview airing in November before its proper
debut in spring 2012. An even earlier preview can be had next week at New York Comic Con, where the first
episode will be screened on Saturday, Oct. 15.
To see the original NEWSARAMA report and video from the MIPJunior shocase in Cannes, click HERE!
The less Joker there is, the less I’m tempted to even read spoilers about this. But at least they make my 2nd favorite a big star – Pyg. So I think I will read summaries of the episodes that feature Joker or Pyg and then I will imagine them myself, so I don’t have to see this crappy style…
I agree. If the classic villains are not going to be there, the series don’t have much appeal. I guess that if the series was well written, it could be something different but this is a kids show so I don’t expect much on the writing department. Oh…and the animation style is not its forte.