The latest entry in DC’s animated feature lineup is Batman: Year One, starring Benjamin McKenzie as Bruce Wayne, Bryan Cranston as Jim Gordon, Eliza Dushku as Catwoman and Katee Sackhoff as Sarah Essen. The first trailer debuted today online, and here it is:
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Batman: Year One is out on DVD and Blu-ray on October 18, and will premiere with a screening on Friday, July 22 at Comic-Con.
July 7th, 2011 at 11:50 am
Awesome.
July 7th, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Looks fantastic. I’m not sure why this story needs to be told again (and again) but I’m looking forward to seeing it. Hopefully we’ll get some Flash action soon.
July 7th, 2011 at 12:19 pm
looks good, but that was a REALLY crappily edited trailer. (and the typography was cringe-worthy)
July 7th, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Year One is probably my favourite Batman story. So looking forward to this! And the Catwoman short is just icing on the cake.
July 7th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
The animation is straight out of Gotham Knights, which is fine. However I don’t like the voice actor at all (no timbre or emotion) and with the story being not among my favorites, this will be strictly a rental.
July 7th, 2011 at 1:21 pm
Can’t wait! The cast is amazing, and I always love hearing new voices do Batman…
July 7th, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Yet another case of “Inception Horn.”
http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/feature/trailer-trend-rise-of-the-braaahhms.php
Other than that, it looks awesome.
July 7th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Looks good! Where is my R-Rated The Dark Knight Returns with Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamil?
July 7th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
Long overdue.
And just like Unit_99 indicated, The Dark knight Returns needs the exact same treatment.
July 7th, 2011 at 7:12 pm
don’t need a direct comic adaptation again, do something new.
July 7th, 2011 at 8:48 pm
Gotta agree with Steve that I don’t see why the story needs yet another retelling… We have the (excellent) comics, we have the awesome Batman Begins (which was heavily influenced by Year One), and now an animated version?
I’d hope that it’s good, since the source material is, but these DCAU adaptations have a way of coming up short thanks to a limited unning time (and other assorted factors).
I disagree with the person saying that he/she likes hearing new Batman voices. Any interest I had in seeing this pretty much went out the window now that I know Kevin Conroy’s not in it. I’d rather just read the comics now and again, and imagine Conroy’s voice in my head while reading it. Honestly, why go with anyone else at this point?
July 7th, 2011 at 8:52 pm
“Where is my R-Rated The Dark Knight Returns with Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamil?”
I think that could, potentially, be more interesting than an animated “Year One” for sure.
I’m going to partly contradict myself here, however, and say that while Kevin Conroy is always welcome, an animated TDKR might be even better with Michael Ironside as Bruce/Batman. His brief turn in that one episode of B: TAS was awesome. That’s just about the only case where I’d accept anyone else voicing Batman in an animated film (although Bruce Greenwood has done an admirable job too).
July 7th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
I am very excited for this! It looks to be the best DCU animated move of them all!
July 8th, 2011 at 7:07 am
@shaun Conroy will always be king, but as Gotham Knights proved, he just isn’t convinving as a younger Bruce, I was actually hoping Rino Romano would be chosen but the trailer sounds good to me.
Plus others like Greenwood, Bader, Romano etc. are all great in my opinion and are just as valid, Bader especially and I look forward to hearing new voices again in the future. All of which is of no detrement to Conroy nor should it be taken as such.
The whole point of these adaptations is to bring them to life, part of the experience for me is hearing different voices and I can’t fathom not wanting to watch this just becuase Conroy isn’t the voice, but oh well.
July 8th, 2011 at 7:12 am
My only choice for the voice of Batman is Bruce Greenwood!
To my ears—he’s the BEST! Love the voice!
July 8th, 2011 at 7:18 am
Hey cool! you got your comments section back! This is so great and next year we get The Dark Knight Returns. DC knows what fans want!
July 8th, 2011 at 6:32 pm
“I can’t fathom not wanting to watch this just becuase Conroy isn’t the voice, but oh well.”
Oh, that’s fine… For me, the lack of Conroy is a major strike against it though. I don’t quite agree with the Gotham Knights example, because Year One is a different animal from the vignette where Bruce was, what, a teenager? I forget how old he was supposed to be in that one, but he sounded like he was maybe 12? I don’t think he was supposed to be that young, but that’s how he sounded.
That was not good work by Conroy, I agree, but that’s not what we’d get with Year One. He was great, as usual, in the others. Including the one where Bruce, as a young man is traveling the world. That vignette, or perhaps Mask of the Phantasm might actually be a better comparison for how Conroy would sound in Year One.
Regardless, the guy they got for this Year One movie? Yeah, he’s not Batman (or Bruce Wayne) to me. I gotta pass. Besides, the typical DCAU approach of taking a great story and cramming into a 70-80 minute feature just isn’t working most of the time. If I see it, it’ll be a library loaner.
July 9th, 2011 at 12:13 am
The animated YEAR ONE is the only comic book related movie I truly care about this year. This was the most human and gripping Batman comic ever and Warner Bros. has done a great job translating comics to animation so far (they were even faithful to lousy comics, in fairness). This will be TREMENDOUS.
Regarding voice actors, anyone who ISN’T Kevin Conroy will get slammed by some fans. But each animated series or movie is its own project and needs its own style and vibe… which is why I’m all for switching the voice actors up.
An idea: Blog@ should do a countdown of the best DC Universe straight to video animated movies so far. I was surprised by how good UNDER THE RED HOOD was… seemed like a standard action movie but wound up being a really thoughtful examination of pragmatic pessimism versus idealistic optimism in the world of criminal justice, as well as loyalty and family. The animation and voice acting were great, too.