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Crisis on Infinite Earths (Animated Trilogy?)

Interview with Butch Lukic about Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill's final performances as Batman and The Joker (Although we know Conroy has recorded more line for Suicide Squad):

"Originally, we obviously knew we were going to get Kevin to do Batman for this scene. We didn't know at the time and I'm not sure if he knew because it was a year away from when he passed away. We were making jokes about it at the time saying, 'This is your last Batman animated, blah, blah, blah,' and he was laughing and making jokes about it too."

"In hindsight, it wasn't intended to be his final performance of the character but it turned out to be that way, sadly. The lines he did were only two lines really but he wanted to stick around and do the lines for the other Batman just for fun [Laughs]. He was having a good time with it, but we don't know if he was sick then or it happened later."

"Unfortunately, it wasn't intended to be his last performance but sadly now it is."
"Once we told Hamill...we told him, 'Look, Kevin is doing it' and he always called us if Kevin was doing even just a couple of lines. He said, 'As long as Kevin is doing it, I'm all in,' and that was that. Even though he did state a couple years before that he'd retired from The Joker, he did want to do this one. Again, he didn't know anything as far as what Kevin's outcome was going to be. He was just doing it because it was a good end statement to Batman: The Animated Series for both of them."
 
This is really sloppy on Warner Bros part. Both the studio and the crew completely gaslit us into believing that this was Hamill when it wasn't. Lukic, Krieg, etc... not a word. Even Wes Gleason has been dead silent on Twitter about this movie, choosing instead to promote other projects.

My digital copy has been updated which I'm thankful for, but I had to pay 25 bucks for the physical 4K copy which is now a defective product. I do feel Warner Bros needs to correct this, right?

On top of that, how unfortunate that Hamill's final performance had to have such negative discourse around it. The ACTUAL performance is brilliant and sees him go out on a high. Wish we got to experience it properly the first time.
 
I cant believe people thought that original recording WAS Hamill. Everyone was saying “oh its just because Hamill is aging.” No, that sounded literally nothing like Hamill’s voice or inflections and i know Hamill’s voice hasn't changed that drastically.
 
This is really sloppy on Warner Bros part. Both the studio and the crew completely gaslit us into believing that this was Hamill when it wasn't. Lukic, Krieg, etc... not a word. Even Wes Gleason has been dead silent on Twitter about this movie, choosing instead to promote other projects.

My digital copy has been updated which I'm thankful for, but I had to pay 25 bucks for the physical 4K copy which is now a defective product. I do feel Warner Bros needs to correct this, right?

On top of that, how unfortunate that Hamill's final performance had to have such negative discourse around it. The ACTUAL performance is brilliant and sees him go out on a high. Wish we got to experience it properly the first time.
You can keep the defected copy to sell to some collectors and buy a new copy?
 
Finally got around to watching Crisis now that all 3 parts are available on Max. Admittedly the source material is not all that great but there were some good ideas in this adaptation. I think Pt. I probably worked the best; and it was interesting to see how the pieces fit together for this animated universe. I won’t be mourning the loss of the Tomorrow-verse; and, frankly, it probably didn’t even reach the heights of the New 52-inspired films.

It’s really the animation that holds these movies back. After watching this trilogy, I went back to JL:COTE and then DOOM—man, I wish we could have spun an expanded universe out of that voice cast/animation style. It’s just such a different viewing experience. The Tomorrow-verse films often feel like a very slow-moving motion comic, and often it seems as if dialogue and animation are barely syncing up.
 
I hate these movies. I think the source material is a bit overrated too though. The concept of COIE was always better than the execution IMO- in the original comics and the movies.
I’m waiting for an animated Kingdom Come but if the animation is anything like this, then I have no interest. I wish we could get back to the days of the really good animated DC movies.
There were some truly great ones- TDKR 1&2, UTRH, JL: Doom, JL: Crisis on Two Earths, First Flight, Year One, Apocalypse, Public Enemies, Wonder Woman…
I even came around to some of the DCAMU movies like Son of Batman and the other Batman movies, Apokolips War. But the Tomorrowverse was just terrible top to bottom
 
Agreed about Kingdom Come— that’s the only seminal storyline that’s been yet to be adapted, unless I’m missing one?

But it needs to be standalone and done with the same care as TDKR Pt. I & II or the classics you mention. The Long Halloween was fine, but it would have been so nice to see it more faithfully adapted.

But is the assumption now that this “reset” DC universe in animation just be the DCU? That’s fine as long as we can get stand-alones under the Elseworlds banner.
 
Damn i held back from watching these because i heard such bad things about them. Theyre THAT bad huh?
 
I thought they were horrible, especially the treatment of Terry McGinnis and the bait and switch of Hamill Joker.

Could’ve been an epic culmination of all the DC animated universes but it was so lame. The fan service that was there felt so hollow.
 
Agreed about Kingdom Come— that’s the only seminal storyline that’s been yet to be adapted, unless I’m missing one?

But it needs to be standalone and done with the same care as TDKR Pt. I & II or the classics you mention. The Long Halloween was fine, but it would have been so nice to see it more faithfully adapted.

But is the assumption now that this “reset” DC universe in animation just be the DCU? That’s fine as long as we can get stand-alones under the Elseworlds banner.

I would hire Blur Studios and make the animation CGI. Alex Ross's art style can't really be done in 2D animation.
 
As long as it doesn’t look like the new Watchmen.

And I’m no expert on animation technique but I think the retro-aesthetic of the Fleischer Superman and even earlier episodes of BTAS could lend itself well to Alex Ross’ style.
 
As long as it doesn’t look like the new Watchmen.

And I’m no expert on animation technique but I think the retro-aesthetic of the Fleischer Superman and even earlier episodes of BTAS could lend itself well to Alex Ross’ style.

I am referring to the quasi photo realistic/painterly quality of Ross's artwork. Which I don't think 2D animation can fully capture.
 

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