DC Studios Is Making a Puppet Animated Film Featuring 2 Robins

If anyone wants to cognize how DC Studios is going to beryllium antithetic from Marvel Studios, here’s the champion reply yet. James Gunn conscionable confirmed the workplace greenlit a movie called Dynamic Duo, which volition enactment arsenic an root communicative for Dick Grayson and Jason Todd, some of whom go Robin, and volition beryllium told via puppet animation.

Deadline archetypal broke the quality and reports the movie volition “follow the aboriginal days of Dick Grayson and Jason Todd aka the Robins.” Of enactment though is that erstwhile fans perceive the words “Dynamic Duo,” we don’t deliberation of 2 Robins. We deliberation 1 Robin and 1 Batman. So we’ll spot how, oregon if that plays in.

Gunn confirmed the task connected his societal media…

Over the satellite excited to denote the newest DC Studios/Warner Bros Pictures Animation greenlit movie for theaters, DYNAMIC DUO, the communicative of Robin… oregon should I say, Robins, arsenic successful Dick Grayson and Jason Todd. The archetypal diagnostic movie from the visionary Swaybox, a premix of animation,… pic.twitter.com/IBBMgP1riP

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) October 1, 2024

This each sounds precise intriguing and interesting, but we person questions. Questions like, what precisely does puppet animation look like? Well, the movie is being produced by a institution called Swaybox; if you sojourn its website, its benignant makes you deliberation of thing similar Laika. So possibly a benignant of Coraline-esque look, but successful the DC Universe. Deadline describes it arsenic “a transverse betwixt CGI animation, applicable elements of stop-motion, and live-action real-time performance. The effect is long-form storytelling that is billed to beryllium visually breathtaking, dynamically expressive, and much human.”

Written by Matthew Aldrich, Dynamic Duo volition beryllium directed by Arthur Mintz, 1 of the co-founders of Swaybox on with Theresa Andersson. DC Studio chiefs Gunn and Peter Safran are among the producers on with Matt Reeves, manager of The Batman.

“I person wanted to marque a movie with Arthur and Swaybox for galore years, and for that movie to beryllium Dynamic Duo, an incredibly peculiar and unsocial Batman and Robin communicative for families, is simply a dream,” Reeves told the trade. But, contempt his excitement, the movie volition not beryllium portion of Reeves universe. It could, hypothetically, enactment arsenic an root communicative for the larger DC Universe oregon acceptable into its Elseworlds banner but it’s unclear astatine the infinitesimal if it’s 1 oregon the other. When asked wherever the movie fits in, a root adjacent to the accumulation lone confirmed the quality that it’s not portion of Reeves’ universe.

This is fascinating though, right? We’ve got an animated show, Creature Commandos, kicking disconnected the Gunn/Safran DC Universe. Then a Superman movie, a Green Lantern show, a Supergirl movie, and possibly a Robin root communicative with puppets? This is astir surely not Marvel and we’re blessed astir it.

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