Red Hood reminds me of Deadshot in that image.
Cast and director of Batman: Under the Red Hood revealed
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According to those who have seen the preview, Bruce Timm & Co say this is their darkest, grimmest movie to date.
The opening scene shows:
The opening scene shows:
The Joker beating Robin (Jason Todd) to death.
I know that the "He's Alive!" page got used in whichever issue it was that explained how Jason came back, but I don't know if anything else has ever surfaced.
Here's the Red Hood statue DC Direct will be releasing with the DTV:
I want it. 
I am interested to see how they do this.
During my Batman comics fandom in the 90s Jason Todd death was a pillar of the current Batman mythos. The idea that he would be brought back after so many years seemed like a gimmick. That said outside the comics continuity and the contrivances how how they did it, the idea is sound. That one of Batman's apprentices takes a darker path than Dick Grayson did.
It looks like they're returning to the tone of the original Batman Animated series for this movie. If so I'm really looking forward to it, even though I've never liked the return of Jason Todd.
These DVD movies are designed to stand alone. It's not the same approach to storytelling as the comics' serial format. By the same token, Public Enemies in the comics was a setup for a subsequent story, but the movie version was self-contained with a decisive ending.
Each movie is designed to stand alone, but they are going to do sequels to some of them. A sequel to Superman/Batman: Public Enemies is in the works, as well as a sequel to one of the (as yet unspecified) previous movies.
Which probably means the stuff from the second volume of Under the Red Hood's being saved for later. I found the original to be a little anti-climatic in the end.
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I think these movies are very hit or miss. I hated, HATED Green Lantern: First Flight. So much potential, so much wasted.
There's now a precise release date for Batman: Under the Red Hood: July 27th, 2010.
Any idea if the planned sequel to Public Enemies is going to be the immediate Supergirl story since all the comic fans know that Kara was suspended in that kryptonite astroid that Batman blew up in the DVD? It could easily be explained that the explosion managed to finally dislodge the ship and it continued on it's original course towards Earth before crashing to Gotham City.
I'm looking forward to Under The Red Hood.
I'm looking forward to Under The Red Hood.
There's no official word, but someone reported on Toonzone's DC Animation forum that a Warners website in Germany had some of their future titles listed and that one of them, directly translated into English from the German title, was Superman/Batman: Beyond the Dark Side. Since Darkseid was the villain in the Supergirl arc in Superman/Batman it would seem that the sequel will indeed adapt that storyline.
Since the DVDs are designed to be self-contained, I'd imagine that if they did do that Supergirl story as the followup, they'd just start from scratch with her ship arriving rather than trying to tie it in to the kryptonite asteroid. That kind of tenuous continuity tie between two unrelated stories makes sense in the ongoing serial format of a comic book, but in DVD movies released years apart with other releases between them, it's more logical just to do the separate stories separately rather than using some unnecessary handwave to connect them.
I was watching the sneak peak for Under The Red Hood a couple of days ago and while I was originally skeptical of using the story for an adaption they quickly have changed my mind. I think this has the potential of being the best of the films so far. I'm looking forward to seeing this. Jensen Ackles sounds outstanding as Red Hood, so does Bruce Greenwood as Batman, and Neil Patrick Harris as Nightwing. I find it interesting that they seem to have excluded Tim from this. I wonder why they chose not to have the third Robin unless they just felt too many characters would bog the story down.
I can imagine them doing the Supergirl story from scratch as well but it would be cool IMO for them to reference Public Enemies.
I can imagine them doing the Supergirl story from scratch as well but it would be cool IMO for them to reference Public Enemies.
Another member of the voice cast has been revealed: Wade Williams (best known for Prison Break) voices Black Mask.
In other DC DTV news, it's been revealed that the Green Arrow short, which will appear on the third - yet to be announced - DTV release this year, is written by Greg Weisman.
In other DC DTV news, it's been revealed that the Green Arrow short, which will appear on the third - yet to be announced - DTV release this year, is written by Greg Weisman.