The Warner Bros. Animation team has been developing an adaptation of the classic DC Comics Batman story, Batman: The Long Halloween. The comic was created by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale and this project will be a two-part film.
This is one of my favorite Batman stories and while I would have loved to see it get a live-action adaptation, but this animated adaptation will have to do.
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One will star Supernatural‘s Jensen Ackles in the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne after previously voicing Jason Todd/Red Hood in 2010’s Batman: Under the Red Hood. The rest of the voice cast will include Naya Rivera, the late Glee star who died in July. Rivera completed her voice work as Catwoman/Selina Kyle for The Long Halloween.
Other stars include Josh Duhamel as Harvey Dent, Billy Burke as James Gordon, Titus Welliver as Carmine Falcone, David Dastmalchian as Calendar Man, Troy Baker as Joker, Amy Landecker as Barbara Gordon, Julie Nathanson as Gilda Dent, Jack Quaid as Alberto, Fred Tatasciore as Solomon Grundy and Alastair Duncan as Alfred. Other voice work was performed by Frances Callier, Greg Chun, Gary Leroi Gray and Jim Pirri.
The film is being directed by Chris Palmer (Superman: Man of Tomorrow) from a script that reteams him with Man of Tomorrow screenwriter Tim Sheridan. Jim Krieg and Kimberly S. Moreau are producing. Butch Lukic is the supervising producer, with Michael Uslan and Sam Register serving as executive producers.
For those of you who need a reminder of the story for The Long Halloween, here ya go!
Christmas. St. Patrick’s Day. Easter. As the calendar’s days stack up, so do the bodies littered in the streets of Gotham City. A murderer is loose, killing only on holidays. The only man that can stop this fiend? The Dark Knight. In a mystery taking place during Batman’s early days of crime fighting, Batman: The Long Halloween is one of the greatest Dark Knight stories ever told.
Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon, Batman races against the calendar as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month. A mystery that has the reader continually guessing the identity of the killer, this story also ties into the events that transform Harvey Dent into Batman’s deadly enemy, Two-Face.“
Are you excited about seeing WB’s animated adaptation of The Long Halloween?