Bruce Timm and Andrea Romano on BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS: Cinefantastique’s New York Comic Con 2012

The Bats is Back, and He's Got a Tank: The caped crusader arms up in BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS.
The Bats is Back, and He's Got a Tank: The caped crusader arms up in BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS.

Of the seminal works that helped rescue Batman from the depths of camp, none may be more influential, or controversial, than Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. The tale of an aged, embittered Bruce Wayne putting the cape and cowl on once more to become the enemy of crime — and notably, most of law enforcement as well — the graphic novel reintroduced the public to a caped crusader more dark, determined, and scary than any seen in the years preceding, and set the stage for both the Batman that would make his way onto movie screens, and onto TV sets in the form of a landmark, animated series.
In support of the release of the two-part, animated adaptation, BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, Warners brought to New York Comic Con two of the backbones of the DC animated universe, producer Bruce Timm and voice director Andrea Romano, for roundtables, and we were able to get their take on transitioning the darkest knight of all to the screen.

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DC Comics' Dan DiDio on DJANGO UNCHAINED and THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO: New York

Django Unchained (left) & Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Django Unchained (left) & Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

It’s not always page-to-screen, you know. While DC Comics is still celebrating the successful conclusion of Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy, the recent debut of the TV series ARROW, and the upcoming MAN OF STEEL, they’re also taking the process in the opposite direction, mounting graphic adaptations of two hot properties: the intense thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti-western reboot, Django Unchained.
While at New York Comic-Con, Dan Persons got a few minutes with DC co-publisher Dan DiDio to ask him about the motivations for this new project, and also threw in a question about the new, animated adaptation of Frank Miller’s revolutionary BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS.

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