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  • Amazon Gives Two Season Order to ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’

    Amazon Gives Two Season Order to ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’

    After HBO Max passed on Batman: Caped Crusader back in August, the animated series has successfully found a new streaming home. The Hollywood Reporter announced on Thursday that Batman: Caped Crusader has received a two-season order from Amazon. According to THR, other streamers, including Hulu and Netflix, were interested at some point, but the series ultimately found a home with Amazon’s Prime Video.

    Batman: Caped Crusader hails from J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves, and Bruce Timm. Legendary comic book writer Ed Brubaker is on the show’s creative team and is said to have helped run the writers room. The project was initially announced in May 2021, however, after Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav took over the company last year, he sought to make necessary cuts to save money. Axing Batman: Caped Crusader and shopping the project elsewhere was one of those cuts.

    The first season consists of 10 episodes. As of now, Batman: Caped Crusader does not have a release date.

    Source: THR.

  • ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ Not Moving Forward at HBO Max

    ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ Not Moving Forward at HBO Max

    Another day, another cancellation. TV Line has announced that HBO Max is not moving forward with the animated Batman series, Batman: Caped Crusader. Th show was given a series order a little over a year ago. It hailed from Bruce Timm, J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves and Ed Brubaker who were expected to executive produce the series. Batman: Caped Crusader was meant to be a reimagining of the Batman mythology. The description for the series promised the series would “reinvent Batman and his iconic rogue’s gallery with sophisticated storytelling, nuanced characters and intense action sequences all set in a visually striking world.”

    While the series will not be moving ahead on HBO Max, it is expected to be shopped around. Joining Caped Crusader on the search for a new home are Merry Little Batman, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, Bye Bye Bunner: A Looney Tunes Musical, Did I Do That: A Steve Urkel Story, and The Amazing World of Gumball: The Movie.

    Merry Little Batman focused on a six-year-old Damian Wayne who finds himself alone in the iconic Wayne Manor. In order to defend his home and Gotham City from crooks and super-villains seeking to destroy Christmas, Damian will need to transform into Little Batman. The animated comedy hails from Mike Roth who directed it from a screenplay by Morgan Evans.

    Per TV Line, as the projects search for a new home, work will continue as normal on the projects.

    Source: TV Line.

  • ‘Gotham Central’ Co-Writer Greg Rucka Joins ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’

    ‘Gotham Central’ Co-Writer Greg Rucka Joins ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’

    A while back, it was announced that Matt Reeves would continue working in the world of Batman, but be jumping to a whole new medium, working alongside Bruce Timm and JJ Abrams on a new Batman animated series titled Batman: Caped Crusader. Timm would serve as showrunner while Reeves and Abrams would join the project as executive producers. Last month, it was announced fan-favorite comic book writer Ed Brubaker would be joining the series as head writer, and it seems like he brought a friend.

    In a recent newsletter, Brubaker revealed that he’s been working on the Batman animated series, but he hasn’t been working alone, confirming Greg Rucka has joined the animated series as a writer.

    “So, back on topic… what have I got for you this time? The past month or so I’ve done several podcasts or zoom interviews… I’ve been writing Friday and the 5th Reckless book while working on the Batman show with Bruce Timm. And also starting to adapt one of our books that I’ve got a star attached to, but more on that in the next few months, hopefully. On the Batman front, we only freelanced a few episodes in this first season, but I still managed to bring in a few great writers, one of who (whom?) used to work on Batman-related stuff with me back in the old days. I can’t tell you who it is, but his name rhymes with Craig Stucka and it was a lot of fun to work with him again. “

    Ed Brubaker

    Both Rucka and Brubaker are known for their work together on Gotham Central, a comic book series that followed characters within the Gotham City police department and for which Rucka won an Eisner Award in 2004. In addition to his work on Gotham Central, Rucka also had a lengthy run on Detective Comics and also worked on the screenplay for the 2008 animated anthology, Batman: Gotham Knight. The team behind this animated is pretty great and the series is surely going to be something special with that much talent on this project.

    SOURCE: Ed Brubaker

  • Ed Brubaker Joins ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ as Head Writer

    Ed Brubaker Joins ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ as Head Writer

    Comic book author and seven time Eisner Award winner Ed Brubaker has joined the creative team behind the HBO Max series, Batman: Caped Crusader, as the head writer on the animated project. The project, first announced last May, already features a ton of talent with the legendary Bruce Timm as showrunner and J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves serving as executive producers.

    Brubaker himself is a comic icon, especially well-known for his crime-based work such as Criminal, Kill or Be Killed and also a veteran of the Batworld, having written Catwoman and Gotham Central in the early 2000s.

    Batman: Caped Crusader looks to recapture the success of Batman: The Animated Series, a show that defined the character for a generation, by reinventing the character and his “iconic rogues gallery.” Brubaker described the vision for the show and promised that fans will be surprised, saying:

    Their vision for the show, with a slightly more pulpy take on the character, and a new way of looking at the world of Gotham, set in the past but viewed through a modern lens really sold me, and so far every part of it has been a blast to work on. I can’t wait until the rest of the world can see what we’ve been building the last few months in the writers room. All I can say is, it’s not what anyone is expecting … but in a good way.

    Production on the show’s first season, which will feature 10 episodes, is underway now though no release date has been set.

    Source: THR