Dark Knight Returns & Batman: Year One Animated Features Coming?

Dark Knight Returns & Batman: Year One Animated Features Coming?: "

Hopefully this part won't have William Tell's Overture on the soundtrack.

With adaptations of NEW FRONTIER, UNDER THE HOOD and THE
DEATH OF SUPERMAN out there and dazzling the people, there was certainly a question
of when we’d to see two of the greatest BATMAN stories ever get similar treatment.
Bleeding Cool’s got a scoop that not only is a feature length toon version of YEAR
ONE in the works, so too will THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS gets its DTV due. It’ll surely be a spell before we see the DVD
or Blu-Ray of these on the shelves at the ol’ consumer electronics department
store. I can certainly imagine either coming out to coincide with the
release of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES - - which
certainly would be apropos considering how, you know, it got the inspiration
for its title from Miller’s book.


All of these DC Animated projects have been pretty
remarkable for capturing the rendering style of the comics they’re based on. I
get a little giddy thinking about what Miller’s cartoonist art would look
like in motion. And, of course, I’d be remiss not to bring up one of the latter
episodes of BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES which actually featured a segment
recreating a couple key scenes from DKR. Having watched this episode on the
very Saturday morning it debuted, I’ve got to say that the prospect of seeing this aching
tease finally fulfilled is infinitely appealing…

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