{"id":228157,"date":"2026-06-25T20:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228157\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:46:13","slug":"gotham-city-needs-batman-in-the-new-knightfall-trilogy-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228157\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotham City Needs Batman in the New ‘Knightfall’ Trilogy Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival got an early look at the first part of Batman: Knightfall<\/a>, an animated trilogy coming later this year. But everyone else still gets an energetic trailer to look at, and it\u2019s stuffed with villains from the iconic early \u201990s comics storyline. Including, of course, the back-breaker himself, Bane<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, and the increasingly battered and weary Batman (voiced by Star Trek: Strange New Worlds\u2018 Anson Mount) gets to show off, too.<\/p>\n

Michael Mando voices the extra-enhanced version of Bane, and Pablo Schreiber is the volatile Jean-Paul Valley\/Azrael.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the mysterious behemoth known only as Bane frees Batman\u2019s entire Rogue\u2019s Gallery from Arkham Asylum, the Caped Crusader is pushed to his mental and physical breaking point,\u201d reads the official description.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s based on DC\u2019s monumental \u201cKnightfall\u201d story arc that ran from 1993 to 1994, with an array of talents involved, including Doug Moench, Chuck Dixon, Alan Grant, Dennis O\u2019Neil, Peter David, Jo Duffy, Jim Aparo, Graham Nolan, Norm Breyfogle, and Jim Balent.<\/p>\n

Batman: Knightfall Part One is directed by Jeff Wamester and written by Jeremy Adams. Look for its release from DC, Warner Bros. Animation, and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment later in 2026.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival got an early look at the first part of Batman:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9338,98844,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-228157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-batman","tag-batman-knightfall","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}