Batman: Caped Crusader's First Trailer Has an Important Question to Ask

Gotham City’s astir notorious vigilante is besides its astir despised citizen, according to the caller trailer for Batman: Caped Crusader. The animated series from enforcement producers J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves, and Bruce Timm hits Prime Video August 1, but you tin drawback a glimpse of a definite troublemaking leader “who dresses up similar Dracula” close here:

Cops, politicians, “muggers and dope-peddlers,” gangsters, sinister masterminds dressed successful elaborate disguises—Batman’s surrounded by plentifulness of acquainted foes (and the occasional ally) arsenic helium sets retired to unravel play one’s cardinal mystery, which seems to impact a huffy bomber. This trailer offers our champion uncover yet of Hamish Linklater (Midnight Mass) voicing the rubric character, though we don’t get excessively overmuch of him arsenic Bruce Wayne. Linklater heads up a formed that includes Christina Ricci arsenic Catwoman/Selina Kyle, Jamie Chung arsenic Harley Quinn/Dr. Harleen Quinzel, and Diedrich Bader arsenic Harvey Dent/Two-Face, each of whom look successful the trailer.

The remainder of the ensemble formed includes Minnie Driver, Mckenna Grace, Eric Morgan Stuart, Michelle C. Bonilla, Krystal Joy Brown, John DiMaggio, Paul Scheer, Reid Scott, Tom Kenny, Jason Watkins, Gary Anthony Williams, Dan Donohue, David Krumholtz, Haley Joel Osment, and Toby Stephens. Batman: Caped Crusader, described arsenic “a reimagining of the Batman mythology,” is simply a follow-up to Timm’s much-loved Batman: The Animated Series, with the powerfulness of Abrams and Reeves (The Batman) adding further weight.

Though Batman is, of course, a DC quality owned by Warner Bros., Batman: Caped Crusader is simply a Prime Video series; each 10 episodes driblet August 1.

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