![]() ![]() Timm: Seeing that this was going to be our first full-length Batman movie in the DC Universe line, we thought we really needed to have a strong story that wasn't just another adventure story or a caper that Batman foils. What made Batman: Under the Red Hood the right story to be the first true Batman movie in the DC Universe animated franchise?īruce W. Let's do it." And away we meant.īatman: Gotham Knight was a collection of short stories loosely tied together and produced in anime. He pitched for about 45 minutes and when he was done, Alan and I looked at each other and said, "Yeah, that's a movie. Judd had already clearly put a lot of thought into the entire film - how to stay focused on the main story, how to clean up the death of Robin thing, and how to eliminate all the extra baggage. But amazingly, every single problem I thought we'd have trouble making into a movie, Judd had fixed in the pitch. Furthermore, the way the pitch was arranged, we were in a room in Burbank and Judd was in San Francisco and had to pitch over the speakerphone. The big thing about the story is that it's a sequel to a big event in the history of DC comics - the death of Robin that happened back in the 1980s - and I didn't see how we could set that up, because it all hinges on being a sequel to that story. Quite frankly, it was confusing to me and I kept thinking to myself that I didn't see how a lot of those things would work. My first impression was that it was an entertaining comic, but it was quite a long mini-series and it had all these tangents of supporting characters who came and went through the course of the story. Timm: When we first heard that Judd wanted to pitch Red Hood as an adaptation for our DC Universe film line, Alan Burnett and I quickly got copies of the book and read through it. How did Judd Winick convince you that his comic series/graphic novel would translate well to an animated film?īruce W.
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