![]() ![]() This only took til 2005 for a live action adaptation to think to use the 60 plus years worth of stories as the basis for the film, which resulted in Batman Begins. Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, New Frontier and Batman: Under the Red Hood are also adapted from existing material and are more than worthy successors to their source material. The Superman/Batman films (based on the comic of the same name) are probably my favorite of the DC animated films. Green Lantern’s likely reboot and Wonder Woman’s eventual live action interpretations will be doing well to reproduce the quality of these entries. I can only assume this photo is illustrating the point that I just made. Granted, I may have been out of the intended age range for the film, assuming that most 10 year olds wouldn’t remember a cartoon that was on television roughly the same time that they were born. Snipes 8 mile series#I’m not saying that you can’t recast or do another interpretation (as they did eventually with the Superman: Doomsday project) but why go to the trouble to reproduce so many details of the animated series and then ignore everything else about it. They used all of the designs from the Superman Animated series that was produced from 1997-2000, but used none of the timeline or actor in their roles. The first non-Batman animated Warner film was a little miss for me. And as they eventually went on to produce another Batman animated project, they were, by all accounts, correct. ![]() The film was apparently completed sometime in 1997 but Warner, not wanting the stink to transfer, held the film off until 1998, hopefully improving its chances at success. But saying lack of narrative cohesion and Tim Burton films is redundant.įinancially, critically, microscopically and metaphysically a disappointment, the film’s performance so poorly, it caused the animated film, meant to tie-in to it’s eventual video release to be delayed another year. ![]() Though many critics said that the film had a better narrative structure and even favored it over either of the Burton Batman films. From inception to completion, the film took less than eight months. A traditional animated film is usually granted somewhere in the ball park of two years or more. This unfortunately led to a very abbreviated window for the filmmakers. Very early in production, WB decoded that the film would be released in theaters. On a budget of 6 million dollars it only managed to recoup 5.6 million. fresh from seeing all those Dollar signs in their eyes from Batman and Batman Returns merchandising, apparently saw the possibility of a new Batman string of merchandising as a stop gap between Batman Returns and what would eventually become Batman Forever. You don’t.)īatman Mask of the Phantasm was originally intended to be a straight to video release. Pictured: Considerably less interesting than Wolverine.įor the intents and purposes of this article I will be talking about t only the related DC Comics based animated films (unless you really want me to talk about Cats Don’t Dance or Pebble and the Penguin. ![]()
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