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So there's a good deal of news on DC's next animated feature after Public Enemies. Titled "Justice League: A Crisis on Two Earths," it's currently slated for Spring 2010. Here's the skinny:

Warner Home Video will distribute in Spring 2010 (finalizing date soon)

An original story from award-winning animation/comics writer Dwayne
McDuffie (Justice League) rooted in DC Comics’ popular canon of
“Crisis” stories.

Bruce Timm (Superman Doomsday, Green Lantern) is executive producer.
Lauren Montgomery (Wonder Woman, Green Lantern) and Sam Liu
(Superman/Batman: Public Enemies) are co-directors.

In Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, a “good” Lex Luthor arrives
from an alternate universe to recruit the Justice League to help save
his Earth from the Crime Syndicate, a gang of villainous characters
with virtually identical super powers to the Justice League. What
ensues is the ultimate battle of good versus evil in a war that
threatens both planets and, through a diabolical plan launched by
Owlman, puts the balance of all existence in peril.

All-star voice cast led by Mark Harmon (NCIS) as Superman, James Woods
(Ghosts of Mississippi) as Owlman, Chris Noth (Sex and the City, Law &
Order) as Lex Luthor, William Baldwin (Dirty Sexy Money) as Batman,
Gina Torres (Serenity, Firefly) as Super Woman and Bruce Davison
(X-Men) as the President.

Attached are a few images ... one is of Owlman and the other is of the Justice League arriving for battle along with the "good" Lex Luthor.
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AICN
 
I tend to like the animated DC movies, rather than the Marvel ones. And I'm a huge Marvel fan. Can't wait for this one, even though I still haven't seen Green Lantern or Wonder Woman.
 
Awww...this looks like a good story but from the rumors of the title I thought it would be from Crisis on Infinite Earths. Wanted to see the Anti-Monitor animated.
 
All-star voice cast led by Mark Harmon (NCIS) as Superman, James Woods
(Ghosts of Mississippi) as Owlman, Chris Noth (Sex and the City, Law &
Order) as Lex Luthor, William Baldwin (Dirty Sexy Money) as Batman,
Gina Torres (Serenity, Firefly) as Super Woman and Bruce Davison
(X-Men) as the President
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gibbs is superman, and detective logan is lex luthor? i just marked the fuck out in library!
 
While I'm a little disappointed that this isn't going to be the JLA teaming up with the JSA on Earth-2 (the one from before Crisis on Infinite Earths and after Infinite Crisis), this is still very, very cool. It's awesome that they're FINALLY going to let Hal Jordan into the animated Justice League (aside from that bit part he had in that JLU episode).

Honestly, though, this movie is going to be all about the obligatory Batman/Owlman scenes.

For those of you who don't know why, here's a taste of the awesomeness that could be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPHSEWul5rU#t=05m15s
 
I enjoyed Justice League New Frontier ( felt a bit underwhelmed after the movie seemingly was going in an amazing direction). Also liked GL First Flight quite a bit so yeah I will get this.
 
Those of you who haven't seen the Wonder Woman movie yet, check it out. I think it's the best of this series of movies so far. And I'm not even a big fan of the character.
 
Don't know how missed this news earlier, but can't wait.

Sad that have new voice actors though.
Couldn't even keep the ones from New Frontier.
 
Penguin said:
Don't know how missed this news earlier, but can't wait.

Sad that have new voice actors though.
Couldn't even keep the ones from New Frontier.
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I doubt they couldn't keep the voice actors from New Frontier, they most likely wanted to go in a different direction with the voice acting, which is what they've been doing with most of these Direct to DVD movies.
 
Ignatz Mouse said:
Those of you who haven't seen the Wonder Woman movie yet, check it out. I think it's the best of this series of movies so far. And I'm not even a big fan of the character.
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Gotham Knight I think is the only one I like more. I wish they would do more Gotham Knights actually.
 
Bluth54 said:
I doubt they couldn't keep the voice actors from New Frontier, they most likely wanted to go in a different direction with the voice acting, which is what they've been doing with most of these Direct to DVD movies.
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I think he is talking about the animated series....
 
AlternativeUlster said:
Gotham Knight I think is the only one I like more. I wish they would do more Gotham Knights actually.
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I actually am not a huge fan of Gotham Knights, but just for the record, which do we count?

Gotham Knights
Superman/Doomsday
Superman: Brainiac
New Frontier
Wonder Woman
Green Lantern: First Flight
 
Penguin said:
I actually am not a huge fan of Gotham Knights, but just for the record, which do we count?

Gotham Knights
Superman/Doomsday
Superman: Brainiac
New Frontier
Wonder Woman
Green Lantern: First Flight
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Well, technically you can add Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero to the mix which I still like Gotham Knights over Mask of the Phantasm even.
 
Yeah, Superman: Brainiac Attacks sucked hard. They took an interesting concept like Clark revealing his secret identity to Lois and almost literally pissed on it. Seriously, Superman cries a glowing, yellow substance onto Lois and cures her without her ever finding out (he does reveal himself in a Phantom Zone-induced hallucination).

At least Jimmy's part of the story was funny.
 
AlternativeUlster said:
I think he is talking about the animated series....
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Well it's pretty much the same point, obviously they had no problems getting the Justice League voice actors back for some of the movies. Kevin Conroy, Tim Daly and Clancy Brown are all in Batman/Superman Public Enemies.
 
MisterHero said:
Yeah, Superman: Brainiac Attacks sucked hard. They took an interesting concept like Clark revealing his secret identity to Lois and almost literally pissed on it. Seriously, Superman cries a glowing, yellow substance onto Lois and cures her without her ever finding out (he does reveal himself in a Phantom Zone-induced hallucination).

At least Jimmy's part of the story was funny.
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Stuff like that is what makes Superman bullshit sometimes. It is why I hate the original Richard Donner movie with that whole making the world rotate backwards to reverse time. At least they didn't do that shit in the any of the animated series (even though the first season of Justice League is funny on all the weak ass shit hurting him) or in comic books lately (well, I stopped reading month to month a couple of years back).
 
AlternativeUlster said:
Stuff like that is what makes Superman bullshit sometimes. It is why I hate the original Richard Donner movie with that whole making the world rotate backwards to reverse time. At least they didn't do that shit in the any of the animated series (even though the first season of Justice League is funny on all the weak ass shit hurting him) or in comic books lately (well, I stopped reading month to month a couple of years back).
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He actually time travels into the past to stop the nuke he couldn't stop before, then travels forward to see that Lois survives and the effects of the nuke never happened. I understand though as it's a weird shot, he does look like he spins the earth.

I think if DCAU Superman had the capability, he would have used time travel once or twice. As it stands though he was is less powerful than either the comic book or movie versions (or was holding back). I actually like time/alternate universe travel. :P
 
They just can't seen to be able to nail down what Martian Manhunter. He's looked completely different in every cartoon he's appeared in.
 
Penguin said:
I actually am not a huge fan of Gotham Knights, but just for the record, which do we count?

Gotham Knights
Superman/Doomsday
Superman: Brainiac
New Frontier
Wonder Woman
Green Lantern: First Flight
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
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That's the current line of productions that put an end to the DCAU as it were and started doing one-off originals and adaptations in the PG-13 arena.
 
Penguin said:
I actually am not a huge fan of Gotham Knights, but just for the record, which do we count?
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These are the ones I was thinking of, and the order I would rank them:


Wonder Woman
New Frontier
Gotham Knights
Green Lantern: First Flight
Superman/Doomsday

None of them are bad, but the bottom two are nothing special.

Wonder Woman has the most polished script of all of them. GL also has a pretty polished script, but it's sooooooo cliche and doesn't feel right. I don't mind changes from the comic book version of things, but here those changes make it more dull.
 
no kevin conroy makes me mad

off topic but what ever happened to the teen titans movie that thing was announced a long ass time ago.
 
Pein said:
no kevin conroy makes me mad

off topic but what ever happened to the teen titans movie that thing was announced a long ass time ago.
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It was pretty much put into production limbo when the crew shifted work over to Wonder Woman. It's not officially canned, but it might as well be.

So is there pretty much no chance of them returning to the JL/JLU style of art and VAs for these movies?
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Bruce Timm's stated a couple times that he'd like to return to his personal style (i.e. the DCAU style) for another feature, but for now, they're going to focus on these. Supposedly the next movie is going to be centered on Batman, so there's always that possibility.
 
Messypandas said:
Day one probably but whys it always got to be a bloody crisis. Get a thesaurus DC
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I'm guessing you don't understand the concept of thematic naming.
 
gdt5016 said:
I'm not really all that into superhero comics, so...what is this?

Whats it based on?
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From the First Look, looks like it isn't really based on anything.

It was originally going to be a JLU movie called World Collides that got retooled to be a more general DC movie.

The snippets they showed look pretty cool.
 
Penguin said:
From the First Look, looks like it isn't really based on anything.

It was originally going to be a JLU movie called World Collides that got retooled to be a more general DC movie.

The snippets they showed look pretty cool.
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I know they say that, but just from watching that "first look" clip it's most definitely borrowing its premise from Morrison's JLA: Earth 2 miniseries, which squidhands posted the cover to. I'm guessing at some point will diverge into new territory.
 
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