The Bruce Timm project Batman: Caped Crusader had already been in production for fifteen months following a series order placed with Warner Bros. Animation by HBO Max when, at length, HBO Max pulled the plug. Most of the productions are Warner Bros. Animation projects, and production continues on all of them while they get shopped around to see who else might want to buy them.
Batman: Caped Crusader is an animated reimagining of the Batman mythology by way of Batman: The Animated Series‘ own Bruce Timm, with J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves and Ed Brubaker also serving as executive producers. It was Reeves who directed The Batman, the big screen’s most recent live-action take on the Dark Knight (now played by Robert Pattinson), while Abrams — in addition to of course numerous Star Trek and Star Wars projects, plus TV’s Lost and Alias — is an executive produder on HBO Max’s still-in-development Justice League Dark series.
Utilizing state-of-the-art animation techniques and technologies, the creative partnership between WB Animation and these executive producers hopes to “reinvent Batman and his iconic rogue’s gallery with sophisticated storytelling, nuanced characters and intense action sequences all set in a visually striking world.”
We have to admit, the show has some pretty good DNA with those particular people in charge.
The other shows cut from HBO Max’s lineup were:
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