The fate of five of those titles is still in the air, but a two-season order for Caped Crusader is welcome news after a year that saw so many high-profile projects canceled, and titles removed from platforms.
Batman: Caped Crusader is produced by Warner Bros. Animation, Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions, and Reeves’ 6th & Idaho. The show is a throwback to the iconic 1992-1995 Batman: The Animated Series, co-created by Timm.
The show’s logline reads: “Utilizing state-of-the-art animation techniques, this powerful creative partnership will once again reinvent Batman and his iconic rogue’s gallery with sophisticated storytelling, nuanced characters, and intense action sequences all set in a visually striking world.”
Caped Crusader may not be the lone animated DC title on Prime Video for long. One of the first productions announced by new DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran after they took the reins late last year was Creature Commandos, a seven-episode animated series penned by Gunn. They didn’t indicate how that series would be distributed, but Prime Video seems a likely destination if the show doesn’t go to HBO Max.
According to Safran, “We have the ability to sell outside of HBO Max if that makes sense. So we’ll figure out if there are certain shows coming up that would be better served elsewhere, or [if] there’s not real estate on HBO Max for us. But we like the idea of having shows on Amazon and Hulu and Netflix. It just broadens the DC audience.”
Given both Dungey and Safran’s comments, it seems likely there could be plenty more DC animated content headed to Prime Video soon.
