4/16/2023 0 Comments Batman beyondthere are no bad ideas, there's just bad ways of doing things. Bruce and Alan had always had tried to push it off because. James Tucker, director: We knew the network and the toy company wanted something like that, a future Batman idea. I didn't want to throw that and Superman and BTAS out the window, so I said, “So if there was some way that we could come up with a teenage Batman show that was still in continuity, that's still built off of the shows that we had already done, the only way really to do that is to go forward into the future and introduce a new character, a new Batman.” my one overriding desire was I didn't want to just throw all that away. So to have the rug pulled out from under us, it was just like, “Oh God, seriously?” We'd found our groove, we were digging the look of the show, we were digging the scripts and stuff, we were on fire. We were in the middle of doing our second iteration of Batman, The New Batman Adventures. It was not the words I expected to hear, let's just say that. It was surreal, and disappointing, shocking, and dream-like. Bruce Timm, producer: I'm not sure I can adequately describe at that moment. In that meeting, Kellner told the team he wanted a new Batman series, one that depicted Bruce Wayne as a teenager. Timm, Burnett, Dini and the late Jean MacCurdy, who was then running WB Animation, were in attendance. The genesis of the new series spun out of a meeting with WB TV boss Jamie Kellner. Watch the full video above or read on! Unexpected Origin Story Through these new conversations, we learned how the team paved a new road that led Batman into the future… and beyond. So how did a network exec’s unwanted idea turn into a beloved animated series with its own unique legacy? How did Batman Beyond’s producers create something from such a specific ask that not only lived up to the established Bat canon but also expanded and enriched it?įor this installment of IGN Inside Stories, we talked with many of the principals involved with the series from the very beginning. Wisely realizing that nuking the canon established in BTAS – not to mention the mythology in decades of Batman comics – would be disastrous, Timm scrambled to come up with an alternative: a Batman tale set in the future. The series exists because creators Bruce Timm, Paul Dini and Alan Burnett managed to stay ahead of studio directives that called for Batman to follow the standard template for WB Network programming at the time: Go young or go home. The story behind the story of Batman Beyond is almost as interesting as the tales told within the series’ 52 episodes and one feature-length film (the acclaimed and controversial Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker). Today, the series is considered a treasured part of the Dark Knight’s long and storied mythology. The new Batman: Urban Legends story will presumably pick up where the latest ongoing series left off.While initially met with skepticism from the most rigid of fans who couldn’t imagine anyone other than Martha and Thomas Wayne’s orphaned son as the Dark Knight, Batman Beyond quickly showed it was a worthy successor to Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures. In 2016, that series ended, and a new Batman Beyond series for the DC Rebirth era, with Terry back in the lead role, launched in its place. Set within the main DC continuity, the series starred Tim Drake as the lead character instead of Terry. In 2015, during the New 52 era Futures End event, DC Comics relaunched the Batman Beyond series. Their stories continued in the digital-first series Batman Beyond, Justice League Beyond, Superman Beyond, Batman Beyond 2.0, and Justice League Beyond 2.0. An ongoing series followed that leaned harder into the DCAU side of things and featured the Justice League of the future. In 2010, DC Comics launched a new Batman Beyond miniseries to bridge the gap between Terry's DCAU continuity and the main DC Universe. Like the other DC Animated Universe shows, Batman Beyond had a comic running concurrently and nominally in the television show's universe.
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