Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns Animated

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Who ever is doing Gordon's voice, is wrong...

Sounds like he is 25 years old.

It's 71 year old David Selby.

Of Dark Shadows fame.

 

[Spidey220987]

I hope they manage to somehow put both parts together into 1 cohesive/continuous film on 1 disc. DVDs can get films and TV shows nearing 3 hours runtime on them. Plus everyone knows blu-ray can hold more already.

I know for a fact that I'm not the only person who wishes for that option.
These might be the first of the DC animated movies that I don't buy, just for that reason alone lol, as I'm gonna wait. If they don't do it that way, guess I'll buy both later down the line.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

You'll get a box set with both films... but they won't edit them together. t:

 

[Spidey220987]

You'll get a box set with both films... but they won't edit them together. t:

Le Bast'airds lol. Oh well, I'll wait for the box set if it's cheaper
Curiosity might get the better of me though
Hope the box set has both DVD & Blu-rays, like a double play

 

[badgrammar]

Trailer

That catwoman clip was not in the Movie. WHat the Hell!

 

[theMan-Bat]

That Catwoman clip is from the Catwoman short film that is a special feature on the Batman: Year One DVD and Blu Ray.

 

[Brother Jack]

I feel that it's impressive faithfulness to the source material is one of the Batman: Year One films great strengths, not a hindrance. I'm glad they didn't just take Frank Miller's Batman: Year One story and bastardize it. As Bruce Timm said, "Put in more gadgets and the flasher cars, and then suddenly it's not Batman: Year One anymore. I just insisted every step of the way from the script, to the character designs, to the animation style, I just wanted it to be like the comic come to life. Anytime somebody would veer away from the comic, like in the screenplay, Tab Murphy did the screenplay and did a really, really great job of adapting it for the film, but every now and then I would be reading the script and going, 'Oh, wait a minute, that lines not right,' and I go back and look at the comic and go, 'Oh, yep, the line in the comic is better, put that line in there.' So it was just a mater of just constantly referring to the comic and making sure it stayed true."

I don't mean being unfaithful to the source material, I'm talking about the literal recreation of the comic panel by panel. It's not a huge deal and it is cool to see the iconography in motion, but I think that approach is stifling to cinematic storytelling. It's one of the things I thought went wrong with Zach Snyder's Watchmen.

 

[amgindrawde]

Dont worry all the Two Face scenes are in the movie, the movie is literally shot for shot from the book, line for line. It's awesome.

 

[AnneFan]

I think the trailer looks good. I didn't really like Year One.

 

[craigdbfan]

That Ben whatever his face sort of killed it for me. Definitely the worst Batman voice actor by far.

 

[Travesty]

I liked him in Year One. I thought Year One was a great movie/adaptation all around. And I didn't have a problem with any of the voice actors.

And from what I'm seeing so far with TDKR, it looks like it'll be a good adaptation, too.

 

[The Guard]

Don't know how I feel about Weller's Batman...it's like a dark Adam West Batman...

 

[Boom]

That is exactly what he sounds like .

 

[theMan-Bat]

I don't mean being unfaithful to the source material, I'm talking about the literal recreation of the comic panel by panel. It's not a huge deal and it is cool to see the iconography in motion, but I think that approach is stifling to cinematic storytelling. It's one of the things I thought went wrong with Zach Snyder's Watchmen.

There are a lot of things that I feel went wrong with Zach Snyder's Watchmen, and faithful to the source material is not one of them. Synder's Watchmen was too unfaithful to Alan Moore's book for me with Synder modeling Nite Owl on Batman (Alan Moore modeled him after Steve Ditko's Blue Beetle, not Batman) and Synder modeling Ozymandias on Joel Schumacher's Robin with nipples on a rubber muscle costume, etc. and changing Alan Moore's ending by replacing Moore's giant squid with an atomic bomb, plus the slow motion annoys me. I was disappointed. I admire filmmakers who strive for panel by panel faithfulness when adapting a specific comic book story, as with Robert Rodriguez on the Sin City film, which he even involved Frank Miller in, and Bruce Timm with the Batman: Year One film and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns films, which he even xeroxed panels from the comics (Bruce Timm: "There was literally some places where we literally xeroxed panels from the comic and just literally slapped them on a storyboard and said, 'well, there you go, nobody needs to draw that.'") to make them like the comics come to life.

I liked him in Year One. I thought Year One was a great movie/adaptation all around. And I didn't have a problem with any of the voice actors.

Neither did I. I love Bryan Cranston as Leutenant Gordon and I like Ben McKenzie as Miller's Dark Knight Universe Bruce Wayne/Batman just starting out at a young age with a young voice. There are some that feel he sounds wooden. He's monotone voice during his internal monologues sounds coldly calculating, grimly brooding, and obsessive to me, fitting the character. Ben McKenzie also explained, "He's still working on becoming fully confident in that role of Batman. So the timber of his voice and the pitchness is a little unsteady initially. It isn't quiet as deep as it becomes later on. So as the movie progresses you see him get more comfortable, but initially he's kind of in fits and starts."
http://www.movieweb.com/comic-con/2011/news/sdcc-2011-exclusive-batman-year-one-interviews-with-katee-sackhoff-and-ben-mckenzie
There are some who don't like him as young Bruce Wayne/Batman simply because he doesn't sound like Kevin Conroy. Frank Miller's Batman: Year One version is different, his young voice should be different than Kevin Conroy's version (Batman: Mask of the Phantasm version) or Rino Romano's version (The Batman version). It's a way of confirming that Batman: Year One features a different version of Batman. Using Kevin Conroy or Rino Romano would have undermine the distinction between the different versions and prevent this other version from gaining it's own voice. The same with Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Kevin Conroy's Batman's future is Batman Beyond, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is a very different version, so this older Batman has a different voice. I love Peter Weller as Frank Miller's Batman at an older age.

 

[cryptic name]

Don't know how I feel about Weller's Batman...it's like a dark Adam West Batman...

And that is AWESOME.

 

[Longshot777]

Wow

So that's where Nolan and co. got it from.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

That Ben whatever his face sort of killed it for me. Definitely the worst Batman voice actor by far.

Yep...

Best: Kevin Conroy

Worst: Ben Mc Kenzie/Ron Pearlman.

 

[TruerToTheCore]

All voice actors:
http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/voice-compare/Batman/Batman/

 

[theMan-Bat]

Cool site.

Yep...

Best: Kevin Conroy

Worst: Ben Mc Kenzie/Ron Pearlman.

Disagree...

Best: Kevin Conroy/Peter Weller/Michael Ironside

Worst: William Baldwin/Olan Soule/Daran Norris

 

[craigdbfan]

Bruce Greenwood and Conroy are my favorites personally. I think Weller will probably join that list for me.

 

[Kane52630]

Nolan and co. used several Batman graphic novels for their trilogy like Batman Begins was Batman Year One, The Man Who Falls, and The Long Halloween.

The Dark Knight used The Killing Joke, The Long Halloween, and a few smaller stories.

The Dark Knight Rises used Knightfall, The Dark Knight Returns, and No Man's Land.


Also I dig Weller as old Bruce Wayne/Batman, It's does kinda sound like a dark Adam West with a little Robocop.

 

[craigdbfan]

Can't forget that Bane of the Demon and parts of Legacy were also heavily present in the movie too.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Give me more Jeremy Sisto please!

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Special features wise...

Standard and high definition versions of the feature film
• UltraViolet™*
• Sneak Peak at Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2, the next DC Universe Animated Original Movie
• Featurette – “Her Name is Carrie … Her Role is Robin” – An all-new featurette. Experience the role of Robin, through the eyes of a female warrior.
• Featurette – “Batman and Me: The Bob Kane Story” – A documentary comprehensively chronicling the remarkable life of the creator of Batman.
• Two bonus episodes from Batman: The Animated Series handpicked by producer Alan Burnett: Two-Face, Parts 1 and 2
• Digital Comic – “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” (digital comic with cover art and three full comic pages)

http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/2...-for-batman-the-dark-knight-returns-part-one/

The parts in bold is all your getting folks.

 

[marvelrobbins]

For those with only DVD players you will probally only get the sneak peat at part 2 plus trailers for past films.