Tuesday
24Jun2008
Our First Five-Minute Look at 'Batman: Gotham Knight'
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 4:50PM 
Behind the scenes here at The Big Picture, we've been working to acquire an
advance copy of
Batman: Gotham Knight, which we're looking forward to almost as
much as
The Dark Knight itself.
Designed as a bridge between the end of
Batman Begins and the beginning of Dark
Knight, Gotham Knight is an anime anthology due out on DVD July 8th, 10
days before the new Batman film hits theaters. Just its very nature is worth our
attention: Six individual stories directed by some of the legends of Japanese
anime, working on stories written by David S. Goyer, Josh Olson and others.
The individual Batman stories are Working Through Pain, Deadshot, Field Test,
In Darkness Dwells, Have I Got a Story for You, and Crossfire.
As I said, we're trying to get our hands on a copy before it comes out so we
can give you a full review of it on July 8th, but in the meantime, take a look
at this five-minute clip, courtesy of
MTV, from Crossfire.
I think this is a brilliant strategy, which, of course, was used by The Matrix years ago, but perhaps because there's so much build up for The Dark Knight, I find myself primed and ready for Batman: Gotham Knight.
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Reader Comments (3)
I would love for someone to plan an arc of movies that steadily morphed from live action, to Sin City/300 style (whatever that's called, is there a name?) to anime and back again...
Directors seem to be realizing that this is possible...
And history might, just might be kind to George Lucas.
(Still, Christopher Nolan can do no wrong right now and The Dark Knight will be Summer 2008!)
I just don't understand why nobody's had the balls to make an adult-oriented animated feature film since, what, Heavy Metal? I mean, the resources are there, the audience is there, and with all these Marvel titles flying into theaters, surely the business model (and that's all it is anymore) could be slightly adjusted to have a go at a traditional animated format.
I'm not saying use it on Batman or Spider-Man, but I think maybe The Punisher could've been much cooler as an animated film, and certainly with DC's woes, an animated JLA could've solved a problem or two. And it might even have been different enough to make us reassess comic book movies. Again.
Speaking of advance copies, just how big is your DVD library and do all the DVD's you acquire and watch make it into your library?