Frank Miller’s “Year One” Batman story made the Bat cool again. Okay, so he did that already in “The Dark Knight Returns” a few years earlier, but “Year One” was pretty damn cool in its own right. “Batman: Year One” is the latest in D.C.’s highly successful collaboration with Warner Home Video, with the partners putting out at least two titles per year, sometimes more. “Year One” would follow Miller’s original comics, introducing a young Bruce Wayne as he learns to fight crime, first as a ski-mask wearing vigilante, then later, as the Batman in order to “strike fear into the hearts” of the bad guys. It works. But “Year One” is also the story of Commissioner Jim Gordon, who arrives in Gotham City about the same time as Bruce Wayne’s return home. Along the way, Selina Kyle aka Catwoman, also gets into the mix.
- 6/7/2011
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
There are rumors of a “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” animated movie in the future, but until that happens, we’ll just have to make due with Frank Miller’s other Batman masterpiece, “Batman: Year One”. The original direct-to-dvd animated movie tracks the first-year crusade of a young (and at times bumbling) Batman, while also at the same time chronicling the rise and fall of his most important partner-in-justice, Jim Gordon. THR has your full cast list for the upcoming “Batman: Year One”, including the first two images from the animated movie, set to be released by DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation sometime this year. Bryan Cranston (“Mad Man”) is voicing a pre-Commissioner Jim Gordon, while Brian McKenzie (“Southland”) will be bringing Bruce Wayne/Batman to life. “Dollhouse’s” Eliza Dushku will fill in for Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman, with “Battlestar Galactica’s” Katee Sackhoff voicing Detective Sarah Essen,...
- 4/20/2011
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
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