For years there’s been people calling on Warner Bros. Pictures to do a feature film adaptation of the “Batman Beyond” animated series. Turns out they may have been listening… sort of.
Industry insider Jeff Sneider revealed on The Hot Mic this week that previous DC Films president Walter Hamada had hired “F9: The Fast Saga” writer Daniel Casey to write a script for an animated “Batman Beyond” feature.
He says the aim was to deliver DC’s answer to “Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse” – offer a ground-breaking, stylised animated feature based on the company’s most iconic character and the kind of story that’s too difficult or expensive to tell in live-action.
Sneider says following Hamada’s exit and James Gunn and Peter Safran taking over, the status of the film remains unknown. It’s seemingly separate from the proposed Christina Hodson-penned live-action “Batman Beyond” film that was in the works with a post-“The Flash” Michael Keaton.
When the new DCU was revealed in late January, there was no mention of any “Batman Beyond” project with “The Brave and the Bold” being the sole Batman title that focuses on Bruce Wayne and his son Damian Wayne.
The 1999 animated series focused on teenager Terry McGinnis becoming the Batman and fighting crime in a futuristic Gotham while being mentored by an older Bruce Wayne.
Source: CBR
