{"id":655903,"date":"2026-06-24T14:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655903\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T14:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:29:12","slug":"batman-knightfall-part-1-trailer-reveals-first-look-at-dcs-r-rated-new-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655903\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman: Knightfall Part 1 trailer reveals first look at DC’s R-rated new movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most influential Batman<\/a> stories ever published is finally making the jump to animation. During the Annecy International Animation Film Festival<\/a> on Tuesday, DC and Warner Bros. Animation debuted the first trailer for Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall. Attendees were also shown a screening of the first film. Polygon was present, and we’ll have a more detailed story about the movie, but for now, let’s talk about that trailer.<\/p>\n

The opening chapter in the planned trilogy will adapt the landmark 1990s comic storyline. In it, Bane famously broke Batman both physically and psychologically. The trailer offers a first glimpse at Anson Mount as Bruce Wayne\/Batman and Michael Mando as Bane. \u201cWhen the mysterious behemoth known only as Bane frees Batman\u2019s entire Rogue\u2019s Gallery from Arkham Asylum<\/a>, the Caped Crusader is pushed to his mental and physical breaking point,\u201d an official description reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cGotham City needs Batman,\u201d the Dark Knight says in a weary voice as the trailer opens. Robin reminds Batman that he hasn\u2019t slept in the two days since Arkham Asylum exploded, releasing an entire Rogues\u2019 Gallery of villains onto the streets of Gotham. Robin wonders aloud if they should ask \u201cJean-Paul\u201d for help, so Batman can take a break. (He\u2019s referring to Jean-Paul Valley, a Bat Family ally who moonlights as the vigilante Azrael and also appears in the trailer.)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all that stands between those inmates and the fall of Gotham,\u201d Batman says to Robin in response.<\/p>\n

Then, as Batman takes off his cowl inside his mansion, Bane appears out of the darkness to threaten him.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet chaos reign in Gotham,\u201d Bane later says in voiceover.<\/p>\n

Based on the sprawling DC Comics crossover event by Doug Moench, Chuck Dixon, Alan Grant, Dennis O’Neil, Peter David, Jo Duffy, Jim Aparo, Graham Nolan, Norm Breyfogle, and Jim Balent, Batman: Knightfall Part 1 adapts the opening act of the saga. The story follows Bane as he systematically exhausts Batman by freeing his entire rogues’ gallery before striking when the Dark Knight is at his weakest. Elements of this iconic comics arc were adapted into Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Dark Knight Rises, though this retelling much more closely follows the original story. (Nolan mixed and matched with Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns.)<\/p>\n

Jeff Wamester directs from a script by Jeremy Adams. The voice cast also includes Pablo Schreiber as Jean-Paul Valley, aka Azrael, whose role becomes increasingly more important as the Knightfall saga unfolds. While a firm release date remains unconfirmed, Part 1 is expected to arrive later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most influential Batman stories ever published is finally making the jump to animation. During the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-655903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}