Batman Beyond (2022) [Archive] - The Technodrome Forums

TurtleTitan97

01-30-2019, 05:47 PM

https://thegww.com/report-warner-bros-developing-animated-batman-beyond-movie-for-theatrical-release/

Yes, you read that correctly.
After concept art of an unknown animated Batman movie was posted on r/DCEULeaks, The GWW did some digging and learned that the Warner Animation Group is working on an animated Batman Beyond movie that will be receiving a theatrical release.
Sources tell us that this is DC’s response to Sony’s incredibly successful animated movie ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’. They’re currently targeting a 2022 release but that is not set in stone. A cast and crew have not been announced. SuperBroMovies writer Daniel Ritchman also showed us a slate of when WAG movies will go into production, with a DC one in 2020. It’s likely that this is the 2020 project.

The film will be based on the 90s series of the same name, which saw high schooler Terry McGinnis take up the mantle of Batman under the wing of a retired Bruce Wayne in the year 2039. It ran for 52 episodes before ending in December 2001.
Concept Art Source: u/kintaro227 and u/jaceleak74

Autbot_Benz

01-30-2019, 05:57 PM

Cool but I wanted a live action one with Micheal Keaton as real life old man Bruce

Andrew NDB

01-30-2019, 06:03 PM

Cool but I wanted a live action one with Micheal Keaton as real life old man Bruce

They can't even make one with live-action normal Batman, what makes you think they were ever going to greenlight live-action Batman Beyond?

A one-off thing with Keaton would be awesome, though. Could just forget Forever and Batman & Robin and have a proper Keaton trilogy.

Redeemer

01-30-2019, 06:13 PM

Cool but I wanted a live action one with Micheal Keaton as real life old man Bruce

Hmm...... Do I sense a Kevin Smith fan here :D

lol I just watched a pod cast and they brought up this idea on one of the recent podcast. So freaking psyched!!!!

Autbot_Benz

01-30-2019, 06:18 PM

Hmm...... Do I sense a Kevin Smith fan here :D

ya I love Kevin Smith.

CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

01-30-2019, 07:00 PM

Good. Animated is fine, it'll keep you Batman Beyond fans happy and not clutter up the live-action slate.

#notmybatman

drgon78

01-30-2019, 08:21 PM

Interesting.

Sumac

01-30-2019, 10:44 PM

Good. Animated is fine, it'll keep you Batman Beyond fans happy and not clutter up the live-action slate.
As if there is anything to clutter, Batman-wise...

CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

01-31-2019, 09:39 AM

As if there is anything to clutter, Batman-wise...

True, true.

Then let me say "delay." Because a live-action Terry McGinnis debuting would absolutely delay a new live-action Bruce Wayne (who wasn't in a wheelchair, I mean).

Coola Yagami

01-31-2019, 09:47 AM

True, true.

Then let me say "delay." Because a live-action Terry McGinnis debuting would absolutely delay a new live-action Bruce Wayne (who wasn't in a wheelchair, I mean).

You mean with a cane?

CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

01-31-2019, 10:05 AM

You mean with a cane?

I thought he was in a wheelchair? I guess I remembered wrong, I haven't watched that since it debuted back in grade school...

Andrew NDB

01-31-2019, 10:51 AM

Then let me say "delay." Because a live-action Terry McGinnis debuting would absolutely delay a new live-action Bruce Wayne (who wasn't in a wheelchair, I mean).

Possibly. But when they're spending 6 years on script alone they have delays anyway.

CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

01-31-2019, 11:12 AM

Possibly. But when they're spending 6 years on script alone they have delays anyway.

That's for damn sure.

Egon1982

01-31-2019, 01:56 PM

Sounds awesome and loved the show since i was teen and can't wait.

AquaParade

01-31-2019, 02:24 PM

Awesome.

A few things that come to mind:

- They won't need to give up the stylish decision to have his mouth "blend" into his mask, since they're going animation. (also, please keep the heels on his boots)

- The musical score is one of the special elements of this show. Please try to incorporate some of the rock/electronic aspects of the show.

- Hope they can get the input of Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, etc.

CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

01-31-2019, 02:26 PM

Coola Yagami

01-31-2019, 02:33 PM

I can't imagine that they wouldn't...

I kinda hope not. Unless you want a sex scene between Terry and the Dee Dees

TurtleTitan97

01-31-2019, 02:48 PM

I kinda hope not. Unless you want a sex scene between Terry and the Dee Dees

WHO TOLD YOU?!?!

Uh, I mean I have no idea what you're talking about... :P

And to be fair, Dini wasn't involved in the production of TKJ.

ZariusTwo

01-31-2019, 03:04 PM

- Hope they can get the input of Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, etc.

Timm can stay the f*ck away from this. And everything else. Forever.

Timm's the reason we never got Terry/Max

TurtleTitan97

01-31-2019, 03:06 PM

Timm's the reason we never got Terry/Max

Thank goodness for that. Max was honestly a pain.

Redeemer

01-31-2019, 04:34 PM

Thank goodness for that. Max was honestly a pain.

she was better than Dana.....

The only time I have ever liked Dana is in the special Justice League (Prologue?)

TurtleTitan97

01-31-2019, 04:39 PM

Fair enough. I'm more a Melanie/Ten man myself personally.

Andrew NDB

01-31-2019, 04:46 PM

Redeemer

01-31-2019, 08:15 PM

ZariusTwo

02-01-2019, 02:55 AM

They almost did make a sequel, which would have involved Selina Kyle using Bruce's DNA to continue a line of Batmen, but it was repurposed as the JLU finale instead (with Amanda Waller replacing Selina)

Leo656

02-01-2019, 03:02 AM

Eh, indifferent. The original never hooked me. It's alright, I guess, but I couldn't get invested in it. I definitely don't consider it anything but an Elseworlds, I would never want it to be canon.

That's true of a lot of things, though. Like, I love "Kingdom Come" but when people are like, "That needs to be the canon future!" I'm like come oooooooooon. There's so many reasons why that's unwise. Plus, you can't dictate any future as "canon" because it hasn't happened yet, and saying it will is fatalist, which undermines, like, almost every possible story you can tell.

I think just about anything would make for a good stand-alone animated project, thought. So why not this? It's due for another one, I guess. I might check it out. Just not a "Beyond" guy.

ZariusTwo

02-01-2019, 04:28 AM

Eh, indifferent. The original never hooked me. It's alright, I guess, but I couldn't get invested in it. I definitely don't consider it anything but an Elseworlds, I would never want it to be canon

Neither do I, I abhor the notion Bruce would grow old alone. Kind of why I love the Tom King penned Batman annual from 2017, where it shows Bruce has grown old with Selina and, while he does die at the end, he's surrounded by the Bat family, he's lived a full life, and has something to show for it. In Beyond, they really hit it home that the family is ultimately divided and that stays that way right through to the finale of the Unlimited cartoon. F*ck that noise. Not even Bruce would be that sheltered.

DC seem hell bent on making the Beyond book a canonical component of the main line though. At one point, to further the synergy, Jurgens wanted to make Superman's kid Jon replace the original "Superman Beyond" and team up with Terry, but editorial put the kibosh on it just as cover art was being finalised. It's likely this was due to Bendis being brought in, and he had his own plans for an older Jon.

Leo656

02-01-2019, 08:51 AM

For me, I just kinda don't care too much about the "far future" stuff, outside of Elseworlds. For one thing, the only Batman I care about is Bruce, with a minor consideration for Dick as an understudy. I wanna see those stories, with that character; after he dies or retires, I'm less invested.

But there's certainly worse possible futures than "Beyond", so sure, we can have some of that. It's not for me but I doubt it'll hurt anything. I wouldn't mind seeing any or all of the Elseworlds or possible future stories get an animated feature, that'd be keen.

I imagine that DC keeps revisiting Beyond because it's something that really captured peoples' imagination, for whatever reason. Like with Kingdom Come, I understand the push to make it canon based on its popularity alone, even if that wouldn't be a good thing for the overall sake of the stories.

It's fine as its own thing, but I'm not in love with the idea of trying to blend it in with the "real" stories. I don't think it benefits either canon to do so.

sdp

02-01-2019, 09:03 AM

Batman Beyond is amazing, i'd rather have live action but i'll take anything BB related, it has to be a new continuity too to not mess stuff up with the DCAU and be able to have stakes. I feel this is a response to the spider-man spiderverse movie.

Leo656

02-01-2019, 09:06 AM

I'll say this, I kinda wouldn't mind seeing that suit in live action. That'd be somethin'.

Redeemer

02-01-2019, 09:18 AM

Neither do I, I abhor the notion Bruce would grow old alone. Kind of why I love the Tom King penned Batman annual from 2017, where it shows Bruce has grown old with Selina and, while he does die at the end, he's surrounded by the Bat family, he's lived a full life, and has something to show for it. In Beyond, they really hit it home that the family is ultimately divided and that stays that way right through to the finale of the Unlimited cartoon. F*ck that noise. Not even Bruce would be that sheltered.

DC seem hell bent on making the Beyond book a canonical component of the main line though. At one point, to further the synergy, Jurgens wanted to make Superman's kid Jon replace the original "Superman Beyond" and team up with Terry, but editorial put the kibosh on it just as cover art was being finalised. It's likely this was due to Bendis being brought in, and he had his own plans for an older Jon.

I think the idea behind that is that for Bruce the mission was never finished, but for everyone else, they did their part and moved on with their lives. Bruce never moved on and I think that was the idea behind it. In Return of the Joker at the end Bruce does reunite with Tim and Barbara.

Egon1982

02-01-2019, 09:36 AM

This is a really good point. But the problem is that the original show aired 20 years ago. There is an entire new generation of kids and viewers in general. A sequel is just not practical from this perspective.

Only 90s kids are fans of the show right and they are all adults now right? i think this one will be for the adults who grew up with the show.

ZariusTwo

02-01-2019, 11:06 AM

In Return of the Joker at the end Bruce does reunite with Tim and Barbara.

ROTJ isn't the ending of Beyond, "Epilouge" from JLU is, and by the time we get to Epilogue he's even older and still only has Terry, who at the end intends to propose to Dana, thus ensuring that there is one Batman out there who will carry on the mission but will still have time in his life for someone.

Redeemer

02-01-2019, 03:03 PM

Only 90s kids are fans of the show right and they are all adults now right? i think this one will be for the adults who grew up with the show.

Maybe..... buts its just been such a big gap between the series and this new movie... It will be hard for a new audience to watch .

ROTJ isn't the ending of Beyond, "Epilouge" from JLU is, and by the time we get to Epilogue he's even older and still only has Terry, who at the end intends to propose to Dana, thus ensuring that there is one Batman out there who will carry on the mission but will still have time in his life for someone.

I never said Return of the Joker was the series finale or did I?? :lol:
Anyways yes the epilogue from JLU is suppose to be the series final. I had simply meant that in Return of the Joker Bruce did reconnect with Tim and Barbara at in the end. But maybe they had another falling out between return of the Joker and the Epilogue. :lol:

Andrew NDB

02-01-2019, 03:12 PM

On the one hand, I wonder if they should even bother with an animated movie. I mean, the assumption is that it will be a... reimagining of the actual Batman Beyond and not a sequel to it, right?

Just seems like a recipe for pissing off all Batman Beyond fans.

This is a really good point. But the problem is that the original show aired 20 years ago. There is an entire new generation of kids and viewers in general. A sequel is just not practical from this perspective.

I'm not saying a sequel or continuation is viable at this point at all. I'm just saying that making an animated Batman Beyond movie is going to invite a lot of ire from the existing fanbase.

For me, I just kinda don't care too much about the "far future" stuff, outside of Elseworlds. For one thing, the only Batman I care about is Bruce, with a minor consideration for Dick as an understudy.

Speak for yourself, I'd love to see the Jean Paul Valley Batman realized in other media.

Speaking of which... what the hell. How do we get like 3 Death of Superman animated things but not even 1 Knightfall/KnightQuest/KnightsEnd?

Leo656

02-01-2019, 04:40 PM

Speak for yourself, I'd love to see the Jean Paul Valley Batman realized in other media.

Speaking of which... what the hell. How do we get like 3 Death of Superman animated things but not even 1 Knightfall/KnightQuest/KnightsEnd?

That is literally all I'm authorized to do, sir.

Also, fair point. I think Jean-Paul isn't much of a character but he served that particular story well. I'd buy it.

Autbot_Benz

02-01-2019, 08:20 PM

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/02/02/batman-beyond-animated-movie-rumors-shot-down

IGN has since also reached and confirmed that Warner Bros. is not developing an animated Batman Beyond movie.

CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

02-01-2019, 08:47 PM

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/02/02/batman-beyond-animated-movie-rumors-shot-down

IGN has since also reached and confirmed that Warner Bros. is not developing an animated Batman Beyond movie.

Sorry for you Beyond fans. Me, I don't mind. But a more grown-up animated theatrical feature, ala Spiderverse, could be good... show us the whole Bat family, don't do the damned Lego jokes with retarded Dick Grayson...

TurtleTitan97

02-01-2019, 09:13 PM

Should have known it was too good to be true. :(

Leo656

02-01-2019, 10:47 PM

Soooo... are we still gonna be giving every rumor it's own headline after this, or...?

Because as I've pointed out occasionally, it's pretty stupid to invest in rumors and hearsay. Wasted energy.

Andrew NDB

06-21-2023, 08:15 PM

So we really were going to get a Keaton Batman Beyond movie... IF The Flash did well. It didn't.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/michael-keaton-batman-beyond-movie-184723276.html

oldmanwinters

06-21-2023, 09:08 PM

So we really were going to get a Keaton Batman Beyond movie... IF The Flash did well. It didn't.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/michael-keaton-batman-beyond-movie-184723276.html

Meh, then we just would have had another cool and quality 90s thing for WB to ruin and taint.

Cowabung-Gal

06-21-2023, 09:22 PM

Sumac

06-22-2023, 02:32 AM

I'd love to see Batman Beyond, but...without any stench from Snyder-crap-verse.

ZariusTwo

06-22-2023, 03:26 AM

I'd love to see Batman Beyond, but...without any stench from Snyder-crap-verse.

batman Beyond already has had to deal with Timm's creepy Babs/Bruce fetish

Sumac

06-22-2023, 10:29 AM

batman Beyond already has had to deal with Timm's creepy Babs/Bruce fetish
True, but I feel it won't be that prevalent in case of the movie, especially since Batgirl / Barbara Gordon don't exist in majority of Batman movies.

Coola Yagami

06-22-2023, 10:56 AM

Either that or they'll make Max (or some other female character) make both Bruce and Terry look like idiots and be the real hero of the movie.

Cowabung-Gal

06-22-2023, 11:09 AM

batman Beyond already has had to deal with Timm's creepy Babs/Bruce fetish

I was always creeped out by that too. I mean, she’s Dick Grayson’s age, for crying out loud. That’s like Woody Allen marrying his adopted stepdaughter…which he did

ZariusTwo

06-22-2023, 01:22 PM

Either that or they'll make Max (or some other female character) make both Bruce and Terry look like idiots and be the real hero of the movie.

Should we be glad Timm put his foot down when the other producers wanted Max to be Terry's true love?

Coola Yagami

06-22-2023, 03:00 PM

Should we be glad Timm put his foot down when the other producers wanted Max to be Terry's true love?

Idk. I liked Max more than Dana, but I mean, Dana being annoyed wasn't get fault. She has no idea while Max did. I'm surprised they didn't make an episode where she thought Terry was cheating her with Max.

ZariusTwo

02-20-2024, 10:30 AM

A new pitch for a film is underway at Warner, this time from a producer of the Spider-Verse films

https://twitter.com/yuhkidemers/status/1759965713719235056

Andrew NDB

02-20-2024, 12:02 PM

Honestly, Keaton shouldn't be punished for anything that happened with The Flash. Though it IS pretty baffling/confusing/surprising to me that Keaton didn't really save The Flash, moderately.

LeotheLateBloomer

02-20-2024, 12:22 PM

Let's hope that this happens. They'd be stupid to turn this opportunity down.

I was always creeped out by that too. I mean, she’s Dick Grayson’s age, for crying out loud. That’s like Woody Allen marrying his adopted stepdaughter…which he did

You talking about that Chinese woman? If so, I never knew that.

Autbot_Benz

02-20-2024, 12:44 PM

Id be down for Batman Beyond in Spider-verse style. Hell you could get Keaton to voice old Bruce if they don't go live action

IMJ

02-20-2024, 07:01 PM

Id be down for Batman Beyond in Spider-verse style. Hell you could get Keaton to voice old Bruce if they don't go live action

That's actually a pretty good idea. Marvel missed the boat on a great CGI Spider-Man 2099 movie.... So DC should fill it with Beyond.

TheCanadiandrome

02-21-2024, 10:03 PM

A new pitch for a film is underway at Warner, this time from a producer of the Spider-Verse films

https://twitter.com/yuhkidemers/status/1759965713719235056

hopefully it's better than the Spider-Verse movies, imo they suck

Honestly, Keaton shouldn't be punished for anything that happened with The Flash. Though it IS pretty baffling/confusing/surprising to me that Keaton didn't really save The Flash, moderately.

IKR it is baffling

Id be down for Batman Beyond in Spider-verse style. Hell you could get Keaton to voice old Bruce if they don't go live action

i say do it in the Batman Beyond style we're all used to and love. personally i hate the way the Spider-Verse style looks, it's like a bunch of kids animated it

Andrew NDB

02-21-2024, 11:59 PM

Imagine if they wooed Tim Burton to come back and do the Batman Beyond movie. That'd be something alright.

LeotheLateBloomer

02-22-2024, 01:07 PM

:tmad:personally i hate the way the Spider-Verse style looks, it's like a bunch of kids animated it

One could say the same about Mutant Mayhem. It's not for everybody I suppose but I thought it worked well enough for these movies.

IMJ

02-22-2024, 06:32 PM

i say do it in the Batman Beyond style we're all used to and love. personally i hate the way the Spider-Verse style looks, it's like a bunch of kids animated it

I got by on the Spider-Verse because the story had heart, but the animation was..... I dunno... an art statement? :lol:

If they did a Batman Beyond I had have high hopes. Warner Brothers animation has been pioneering in so many ways and forever.