At a Warner Animation panel in San Diego on Sunday, DC announced its next batch of their direct-to-DVD animated features. Amongst the announced features were Justice League: Doom, based off of Mark Waid’s legendary “Tower of Babel” story in JLA and Superman Vs The Elite, based partially on Joe Kelly’s polarizing tale “What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice and the American Way”.
However, the highlight of the “currently in production” line-up has to be the adaptation of Frank Millar’s classic, character defining Bat-work, The Dark Knight Returns. No voice actors were named at the panel, but it was the revealed that the story would be released as a two-part DVD set. Whether the intensity, tragic nuance and uber-violence of the original book will transfer over to the small screen remains to be seen, but I suppose
Another bit of sort-of-info to arise from the panel is word that Alan Moore’s Bat-classic The Killing Joke is also on the docket (most likely slated for a 2013 release) and that DC Elseworld’s (but now kinda canon) epic Kingdom Come is NOT being considered for animated adaptation due to it being deemed an “unfit match for hand-drawn animation.”
