Prime Video and DC have unmasked the primary full trailer for the brand new Batman: Caped Crusader animated collection. Forward of the cartoon’s August 1st debut on the streamer, you may watch the preview beneath.
Coming from Bruce Timm, producer of the enduring Batman: The Animated Collection (and just about each different high quality DC animated collection, for that matter), the collection is government produced by J.J. Abrams and The Batman director Matt Reeves. Caped Crusader is alleged to be a extra grownup tackle Batman than The Animated Collection was, with Warner Bros. Animation EVP Peter Giraldi explaining, “It’s all the pieces that Bruce Timm wished to do within the unique collection however as a result of it ran on a child’s channel, he wasn’t capable of do it… It’s extra of his full imaginative and prescient.”
The primary trailer units the stage, with a rookie Batman on a one-man campaign to scrub up Gotham Metropolis. Whereas recapturing the unique collection’ beloved “darkish deco” vibe, the designs of many characters have been altered to match this “reimagining of the Batman mythology.” Catwoman (Christina Ricci) seems in her retro purple look, Harley Quinn (Jamie Chung) places on a creepier yellow-and-black jester doll outfit, and Two-Face (Diedrich Bader) seems much less chemically burned and extra usually disfigured. Batman himself, voiced by Hamish Linklater, has a sleeker look than his cinematic counterpart, and seems deeply targeted on the World’s Biggest Detective ingredient of the character.
Different villains teased within the trailer embody The Penguin, Clayface, Gentleman Ghost, Firebug, and (a private favourite) Onomatopoeia. The expansive and spectacular voice solid is rounded out by the likes of Minnie Driver, Mckenna Grace, Reid Scott, Gary Anthony Williams, John DiMaggio, Dan Donohue, Paul Scheer, and Haley Joel Osment.
Discover the official synopsis for the present beneath, adopted by the complete Batman: Caped Crusader trailer. Premiering August 1st, the present was given a two-season order from Amazon final yr after HBO Max chopped it in the course of the firm’s hack-and-slash cost-cutting measures of 2022, which additionally led to the shelving of the already completed Batgirl movie.
Welcome to Gotham Metropolis, the place the corrupt outnumber the nice, criminals run rampant and law-abiding residents dwell in a relentless state of concern. Solid within the hearth of tragedy, rich socialite Bruce Wayne turns into one thing each extra and fewer than human—The Batman. His one-man campaign for justice attracts surprising allies inside the GCPD and Metropolis Corridor, however his heroic actions spawn lethal, unexpected ramifications.