Take a moment, please, to pour out a cold one for Bruce Wayne\u2019s poor back. It might just be us, but it feels like the Bat-sacroiliac can\u2019t go a full decade these days without some ambitious filmmaker deciding it\u2019s time to snap the sucker in two; poor bastard breaks it more often than he breaks his pledge to stop tossing teenagers in brightly colored pajamas at guys who think a comedy routine is beating a minor to death with a crowbar.<\/p>\n
This reflection brought to you by news that Warner Bros. Animation is moving forward with plans for a new animated adaptation of\u00a0Batman: Knightfall, the comic book that set the template for so many Bat-traction stories to come. Originally published in 1993, the comic introduced a new Batman villain, Bane, who enacted a brilliant plan to make The Bat very, very tired by hunting down escaped supervillains, then wrassled him into submission, followed very swiftly by wrassling him into full-blown knee-delivered paralysis.<\/p>\n
If that sounds kind of familiar, it\u2019s because Christopher Nolan rough-strokes\u2019d the story wholesale for his 2012 trilogy finale film The Dark Knight Rises<\/a>. The new films, announced at New York Comic-Con today, sound like they\u2019ll take a more traditionalist take on the plot, though, sending Bats through the ringer before his ultimate confrontation with the hulking Bane. (It\u2019s also noted to be just Part 1, suggesting we\u2019ll also get elements from follow-up comics\u00a0KnightQuest, and\u00a0KnightsEnd, which dared to ask the question, \u201cWhat if your replacement Batman was crazy, murderous and French?\u201d)<\/p>\n Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall, besides using up our whole surplus of \u201ck\u2019s,\u201d \u201cl,\u2019s\u201d and \u201c:\u2019s\u201d for the year, is being directed by Jeff Wamester, who\u2019s handled a lot of Warner Bros. Animation\u2019s DC Comics adaptations in recent years, including the three-part spin on\u00a0Crisis On Infinite Earths. No word yet on casting, but the studio has pretty consistently tapped\u00a0Supernatural\u00a0star Jensen Ackles for animated Bat-duty in recent years. The film itself is due out in 2026, and, if this little sub-franchises\u2019 usual track record holds, will be released on physical media as well as being direct-to-streaming.<\/p>\n James Gunn spills Hollywood’s dirty secret: Everyone wants to play Batman<\/a>Cristin Milioti: “I’ve been wanting to play a Batman villain like her my entire life”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Take a moment, please, to pour out a cold one for Bruce Wayne\u2019s poor back. It might just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-204789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}