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Spoilers Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders: '66-style animated movie featuring West, Ward, Newman

Dick Whitman said:
In recent years WB built new Looney Tunes shorts around songs Mel Blanc recorded decades ago as the characters. Stuff that never appeared in cartoons when he was alive.

Well back during the height of the success of the 60s tv show Frank Gorshin recorded a Riddler song. Might be tricker to do for a full length movie. But the Riddler is only one of the villains in this. It would be great if he was a posthumously involved some how even if some other voice actor did a impression for the rest of his lines.

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Here's a clip from the Dean Martin Show. People might forget, but Gorshin was a pretty decent impressionist. And man, it seems like everybody capitalized on the success of Batman.

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I remember Gorshin was still doing talk shows into the at least the 1980s and early 1990s. I saw him when I was a kid on Aresino Hall doing a series impressions. One Being Jack Nicholson. Not of Jack playing the Joker but as kid that was the first I thought of. I loved it, Riddler impersonating the Joker!
 
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When I was a kid I did not like the show. I thought that they didn't "get" Batman. Watching the movie with my 3-year-old daughter (who LOVES it) over and over again I've gotten a new appreciation. Gorshin, West and Romero give amazing performances. Meredith, too, but he doesn't have a whole lot to do. As a child I didn't realize that it was SUPPOSED to suck that way.

I wouldn't mind Billy West as Riddler.
 
Strangely enough, I got to see Batman more than I did Star Trek.

When the promos for the show started early in '66, I had no idea who Batman was. Superman, sure. I'd been watching George Reeves reruns practically from the day I was born. But I was intrigued, and it didn't take long before I was hooked. What a fun show, especially for a kid. Batman replaced Superman as my favorite hero for decades after.

A while back I showed the '66 movie to my 5 year old grandson. He got a big kick out of it.
 
The Adam West show was my very first exposure to super-heroes, at the age of about 4. Thus began a lifelong love affair with comic book geekery.
 
The Batman '66 comic has introduced a lot of elements from the modern mythos, like Arkham Asylum, Harley Quinn, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Killer Croc, ect. I wonder if they'll do something similar here, or stick just to stuff directly from the show?
 
Wait, they make a comic set in continuity with the show? Sweet! Is there Two-Face? If there is a Harvey Dent, is his appearance based on an actor from the same period? Are Harley and the others based on actors from then?
 
@JRoss -- Funny that you should specifically mention Two-Face. During the run of the show, Harlan Ellison submitted an outline for an arc that would have introduced Two-Face that was never produced. This was adapted by the comic into Batman '66: The Lost Episode written by Len Wein, based on Ellison's outline.
 
If anybody is curious, La La Land Records -- the label releasing the score -- has confirmed Dnyamic Music Partners is scoring it (Lolita Ritmanis, Michael McCuistion and Kristopher Carter).
 
JRoss said:
Wait, they make a comic set in continuity with the show? Sweet! Is there Two-Face? If there is a Harvey Dent, is his appearance based on an actor from the same period? Are Harley and the others based on actors from then?
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I do not think these new additions where intended to look like any particular person or actor . I suspect for legal reasons the artist were told to avoid doing so.

They did not even have legal approval for the likenesses of all the actors who did appear on the show, In the early issues Alfred and Commisioner Gordon were drawn to look more their comic book versions. So Alfred never wore glasses and Gordon always did. BUt that seemed to change during the comics run. Eventually Alfred clearly looked like actor Alan Napier. On the show occasionally Gordon wore glasses at his desk. Some of the artists did a better job making it look like Neil Hamilton in glasses. Hopefully that was all resolved by the time the character designs for this movie were created.
 
IGN has a new story about the movie with a few more details.

DC/WB's Official Description said:
It’s back to the 1960s as Batman and Robin spring into action when Gotham City is threatened by a quartet of Batman’s most fiendish foes – Penguin, The Joker, Riddler and Catwoman. This time, the four Super-Villains have combined their wicked talents to hatch a plot so nefarious that the Dynamic Duo will need to go to outer space (and back) to foil their arch enemies and restore order in Gotham City. It’s a truly fantastic adventure that will pit good against evil, good against good, evil against evil … and feature two words that exponentially raise the stakes for both sides: Replicator Ray. Holy Multiplication Tables!
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Director: Rick Morales (LEGO DC Comics Superheroes: Justice League: Cosmic Clash
Writer/Supervising Producer: Michael Jelenic (Teen Titans Go!)
Writer/Producer: James Tucker (Justice League vs Teen Titans)
Executive Producer: Sam Register, Benjamin Melniker, and Micheal Uslan
According to IMDB Morales has also directed LEGO DC: Batman Beleaguered and LEGO DC: JL: Attack of the Legion of Doom, and a couple of LEGO Scooby Doos, and episodes of Beware the Batman, Green Lantern: TAS, Generator Rex and Ben 10: Alien Force.
Tucker wrote Vixen for CW Seed, and one episode each of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and Batman Beyond.
Jelenic's got a pretty big list of writer credits for animation including The Jackie Chan Adventures, The Batman, Legion of Super Heroes, a screenplay/story credit for the animated Wonder Woman movie, and several episodes of Teen Titans Go!
That looks like a pretty good group, they've all done at least one or two things I've liked.
 
^James Tucker and Michael Jelenic were actually the developers and showrunners of Batman: The Brave and the Bold. So they're good choices for this.

Looks like they don't have the likeness rights to Neil Hamilton, since they've given Commissioner Gordon a mustache. I didn't recognize the voice, but it sounded kind of Hamilton-like. The Penguin didn't sound much like Burgess Meredith, unfortunately.
 
Oh, that's a new trailer, I thought they were just posting the teaser.
Looks like fun, I love that they have the fight sound effects, I wasn't expecting that.
Yeah, Gordon did look a bit more like the comics version that Hamilton. I am a little surprised they didn't go for a more direct soundalike/impression of Burgess Meredith for Penguin, but it still seems like a pretty good take on the character from the bit we heard there.
 
That new trailer was pretty good. It was a bit weird seeing the different Gordon and Penguin both looked and sounded different then the shows version, but it looks like it will be a fun animated movie.
 
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