Batman: Caped Crusader - DC FanDome Behind-The-Scenes | movie | 2022 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

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00:00I'm J.J. Abrams, executive producer of Batman Caped Crusader.

00:03I'm Bruce Timm, executive producer of Batman Caped Crusader.

00:07Hi, I'm Matt Reeves, executive producer of Batman Caped Crusader.

00:11Hi, I'm James Tucker, and I am a co-producer on Batman Caped Crusader.

00:16Lawrence Animation asked if we would be interested in working with Bruce on a new animated Batman series,

00:22and Matt was working on the Batman film,

00:26so it just felt like an opportunity to collaborate not just with Bruce,

00:31but with one of my best friends on a project that I knew would be incredibly meaningful to all of us.

00:37One of my elevator pitch versions of this show is that it's more Batman animated series than Batman animated series.

00:45It kind of goes back to the original principles of the show that we originally came up with back in the early 90s.

00:50There was certain limitations on what we could do in terms of adult content, in terms of violence and adult themes,

00:57and my idea is basically to say, okay, it's 1990 again.

01:01I get to do what I want to do this time, and I got J.J. and Matt backing me up.

01:04You know, in Bruce's world, in this new iteration, it's just Batman right now.

01:09There's not the Justice League. It doesn't exist. There aren't any other superheroes.

01:13It's Batman. You're watching this lone figure swimming through the cesspool of Gotham.

01:18It's Batman alone.

01:20He's Batman. I mean, whether he's wearing the mask or not, he's Batman.

01:23And Bruce Wayne is the mask. Bruce Wayne is a phony person.

01:27He's a construction that Batman has created to deflect suspicion from his activities.

01:33So he's going to be very low-tech initially.

01:36You know, as he develops as a character, we'll start introducing those gadgets,

01:40and, you know, the audience can see how he developed the Batmobile using different prototypes.

01:45That's part of the fun of this series, is we're finding him discovering these things

01:50that most other Batman series, they already were there.

01:54It really is an incredibly complex psychological story about someone who, in a way,

01:59needs to be redeemed, and that's kind of what at least this first season's about.

02:03We've reconfigured some of the roles some of the characters have.

02:06We're starting before Batman has earned their trust, and they've earned Batman's trust.

02:11So there's nothing assumed.

02:13We don't know that Commissioner Gordon will be Batman's ally.

02:17The journey of the show is to see how they, you know, eventually grow together and learn to trust, or not.

02:23You know, nothing is assumed in this series as far as what we're used to seeing in the world of Batman.

02:30What this does is it gives us the opportunity to say,

02:33okay, well, the versions of Joker and Catwoman and Penguin,

02:37those versions that we did on Batman the Animated Series were really great and iconic,

02:41but there's lots of different ways we can take those characters that we hope will be just as iconic and just as powerful.

02:47Bruce pitched the concept of Caped Crusader,

02:49and he had the Strange Days short that was done for Batman's 75th anniversary

02:54that was very old-school, film noir look.

02:58It was in black and white, and I think that's what really closed the deal on the pitch,

03:02because looking at that, they could see exactly what the show was going to look like.

03:07But, just so it's clear, the show won't be in black and white.

03:10Unless I can talk Bruce into doing a special episode.

03:14This new iteration is very much born of a noir sensibility.

03:18Definitely heavy on the German Expressionism slash film noir kind of styling,

03:22set in the kind of timeless 40s world.

03:24If anything, we're probably going to lean into that even more,

03:27in terms of authentic clothes and hairstyles and hats and vehicles and architecture.

03:32The way we deal with the characters is going to be quite a bit more modern,

03:38in terms of inclusivity, representation, things like that.

03:42Caped Crusader is something that I feel honored to get to be part of the creative conversations,

03:50to get to help and support, along with Matt,

03:53not just the vision for how they want to do it,

03:56but even in using new technologies, the opportunity to take advantage of

04:02literally techniques that didn't exist back when Bruce was doing the animated series.

04:06It's an honor and I'm thrilled to be able to work on this,

04:08but to be honest with you, the most exciting part is I can't wait to see how it turns out.

04:12I can't wait to see all of this come together.

04:14I'm a fan and I just want to see what Bruce does.

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