http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=22727 Cast list: The blu-ray, 4K blu-ray and dvd come out April 10. The movie is rated R. I think this is the only in continuity animated movie this year. The movie after this is The Death of Superman adaptation.
Why did they go with thin Waller? That was a very brief experiment that only lasted a few years in the comics and has been reverted, as well as on Arrow, where Waller was killed like two or three seasons ago. Even the movie, while not going as far as some of the pre-Flashpoint comics, went with a heavy-set Waller. So, why does this film use the failed version that looks more like Halle Berry than Viola Davis?
These movies are targeted at a teen and young-adult male audience, so they tend to cater strongly to the male gaze and an adolescent idea of what "mature" storytelling is like. Recall Son of Batman, in which Talia al Ghul spent the whole movie in a catsuit unzipped to the waist. Although -- how long ago did the comics "revert" to a more heavyset Waller? It takes a year or two to make an animated movie. Depending on how recent the change in the comics was, the character designs for the movie may have been locked in before then.
Yeah, its weird how DC's animated DVDverse still keeps taking stuff from the New 52, when the New 52 in the end failed and sold worse before rebirth then the pre-New was selling. Skinny Waller was especially unpopular from what I remember (although at least they seem to have just made her skinny instead of going for "sexy" like her early New 52 appearances were really trying to do for some stupid reason). At what point do the DVD people realize that the New 52, in the end, didn't work all that well but Rebirth is doing really good? Its like they just really don't want to drop their New 52 based universe, even if a lot of the DVDs from what I've seen have sold worse then the pre-New 52 based animated movies. As for the trailer, mediocre. I mean, they got Tara Strong as harley at least. But, looking at the cast list, its all d-list TV actors again. I mean, every single time they do this it always ends badly, from jason O'mara as Valiumman...I mean "Batman" to Rosario Dawson being I don't even know as Wonder Woman (to be clear, I like both of these people as normal actors, but they're not good voice actors at all). Maybe Melissa Rauch being so godawful as Harley Quinn actually scared them into hiring a real voice actor to play the character in this, since Harley is one of the more popular characters in the movie. The story looks generic. Its like its trying to introduce the SS, but between the live action movie and the other animated movie I don't know how much introduction the SS needs to the audience, and this seems like an origin film for the team. I'm definitely not ecited for the movie, but I watch every one DC makes anyway so I'll definitely see it.
Looks like it could be good. The thing that caught my attention was the "brief graphic nudity" in the content warning. Is that a first for these movies?
I believe so, yes. It's only the fourth R-rated one they've done, after The Killing Joke ("for some bloody images and disturbing content"), Justice League Dark ("for some disturbing violence"), and Gotham by Gaslight ("for some violence").