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

Makes you wonder what the thought process of Neil Hamilton's family/estate is for not allowing his likeness to used? Did they want way too much money? Or do they not wish for him to be remembered for working on such a Campy show? It would be a shame if that is true, that being his most famous role was cemented from the moment the show was a smash hit 50 years ago. No changing that now.
 
Dick Whitman said:
Makes you wonder what the thought process of Neil Hamilton's family/estate is for not allowing his likeness to used? Did they want way too much money? Or do they not wish for him to be remembered for working on such a Campy show? It would be a shame if that is true, that being his most famous role was cemented from the moment the show was a smash hit 50 years ago. No changing that now.
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It's not just Gordon. Penguin, Riddler, and O'Hara don't look much like their respective actors either. Maybe the production just didn't have the budget to secure all those likeness rights.
 
CANNOT WAIT

A few cosmetic differences but pretty much tru to the original?

I'm more excited about this movie than The Killing Joke and BvS!! Only possible rival for me would be a revisit of Michael Keaton' s era.
 
JD said:
IGN has a new story about the movie with a few more details.


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.
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Tucker produced Batman: The Brave and the Bold so is the perfect choice for this project
 
Danlav05 said:
I'm more excited about this movie than The Killing Joke and BvS!!
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I wish I could get more excited, but I find the animation style very bland, very much in the generic style of WB's TV-budget animation. The characters are pretty expressionless and stiff, and too many of the scenes are set at night like they would be in a modern Batman production, so that it lacks the psychedelic pop-art colorfulness of the show.
 
I forgot to mention before that I love the bit at the end about the crosswalk, that is exactly the kind of thing we got on the show.
 
They've revealed some more of the cast, along with new images of the characters.
Jim Ward as Commissioner Gordon
Thomas Lennon as Chief O'Hara
Sirena Irwin as TV show host Miranda Moore
Lynne Marie Stewart as Aunt Harriet
Steven Weber as Alfred Pennyworth
Jeff Bergman as The Joker
William Salyers as The Penguin
Wally Wingert as The Riddler
I wonder if these actors will all just be doing imitations of the originals or their own new takes.
Wingert voiced a very different version of The Riddler in the Arkham games, so it'll interesting to see what he's like here.
I'm a little disappointed we don't appear to be getting Batgirl.
 
According to IMDb, Jeff Bergman is also playing the announcer. I must say, I'm not thrilled with the choice. He's been one of the main people to play the Looney Tunes characters after Mel Blanc died, but I never understood why they went with him, because he's a fairly good impressionist but a totally mediocre actor. He can sound like other people's characters, but he can't capture the skill of their performance. I was hoping for someone like Corey Burton, say. And Steven Weber seems an odd choice for Alfred.

Lynne Marie Stewart has done DC animation before -- she was Lex's dumb-blonde moll Jessica Morganberry in the 1988 Ruby-Spears Superman, and one of Poison Ivy's henchwomen in B:TAS's "Eternal Youth." Jim Ward was Charles Xavier in Wolverine and the X-Men, and I considered his performance to be pretty weak compared to his predecessors in the earlier X-Men series. I know Sirena Irwin mainly as Mera on Batman: The Brave and the Bold. I'm not familiar with the others.
 
Thomas Lennon was hilarious in Reno 911, and was pretty good voicing a gay assassin in Archer and as Eddie the computer in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but I don't know how any of that will translate to O'Hara.
 
JD said:
Thomas Lennon was hilarious in Reno 911, and was pretty good voicing a gay assassin in Archer and as Eddie the computer in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but I don't know how any of that will translate to O'Hara.
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Lennon has done quite a good (if that's the appropriate word) comically overdone Irish accent on @midnight, so I think he'll do well.
 
JD said:
They've revealed some more of the cast, along with new images of the characters.
Jim Ward as Commissioner Gordon
Thomas Lennon as Chief O'Hara
Sirena Irwin as TV show host Miranda Moore
Lynne Marie Stewart as Aunt Harriet
Steven Weber as Alfred Pennyworth
Jeff Bergman as The Joker
William Salyers as The Penguin
Wally Wingert as The Riddler
I wonder if these actors will all just be doing imitations of the originals or their own new takes.
Wingert voiced a very different version of The Riddler in the Arkham games, so it'll interesting to see what he's like here.
I'm a little disappointed we don't appear to be getting Batgirl.
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From what I've heard, most of the voice actors are trying to move in the direction of the original series actors, but there are differences. I've personally hears Wingert's Frank Gorshin, and he nails it, but it remains to be seen if he will go "full Gorshin" in this animated movie.
 
DC has a promotional video containing a clip from the movie, which starts at about 3:33:

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Bergman's Joker is better than I feared, and Wingert's Riddler is a good Gorshin impression. As for the music, they're not using the original Nelson Riddle character motifs, but they are approximating them. I'm still quite underwhelmed by the animation, though.
 
I'd never guess that Weber had the chops to pull off Alfred. We'll see.

Still, my grandson is gonna dig it.
 
That's really cool. I'm glad to they're making a second film, and that we'll get to see some new (for the 1966 Batman) villains.
 
I think there are probably people around today who would consider Shatner's most famous role to be Denny Crane. Or the Priceline Negotiator.
 
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