Watch Five Minutes of 'Batman: Gotham Knight'!
Now this looks pretty damn cool.
Amidst our somewhat crazed anticipation for The Dark Knight, I bet most of you forgot we were getting a direct-to-DVD anthology of six animated Batman stories called Batman: Gotham Knight. Much like the Animatrix, Gotham Knight takes place between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, while utilizing several different well-known animators and writers (with Begins' David Goyer being among the bunch). That said, we've seen images, trailers and behind-the-scenes featurettes, but now MTV has debuted a pretty slick five-minute clip that feels dark as all hell. In the scene above, mobster Sal Maroni squares off against a badass figure known as The Russian in a fairly spectacular gunfight which ends with a visit from that Bat-dude. The animation looks fantastic, and I imagine Bat-fans will definitely want to pick this sucker up when it hits shelves on July 8th, 10 days before The Dark Knight arrives in theaters.
What do you think? Are you hip to this new Batman adventure, or what?
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(Page 1)2. ok.that was stupid. neither side could hit an elephant even if their life depended on it (which it did!). i for one, don't always like the extreme realism of nolan, but this is a radical shift to the other extreme of the spectrum. Anyways fanboys will dig it. i'll wait for the main movie instead.
Posted at 3:15PM on Jun 24th 2008 by Al
3. You forgot to mention Kevin Conroy, the definitive voice of Batman, will be voicing Bats throughout all the cartoons.
Posted at 3:26PM on Jun 24th 2008 by pucky
4. Yeah, I've notice that! What a great and familiar voice, like finding your old favorite t-shirt. Good move on casting.
Posted at 6:48AM on Jun 25th 2008 by John R
5. looks good to me. Was that supposed to be Montoya?
Posted at 6:00PM on Jun 24th 2008 by Akbar Fazil
6. On BD FTW!
Posted at 10:55PM on Jun 24th 2008 by DaveTehWave
7. I seriously thought that sucked. Hopefully the other Batman stories will be better.
Posted at 11:09PM on Jun 24th 2008 by LiqwidZero
8. ...He gets shot by a machine gun and the bullets bounce off of him... then moves faster than a speeding bullet to save the girl... that's not Batman, thats Superman in a Batman costume!
But you know, I didnt like the Matrix animated movies either, so maybe that's the thing now days, just thought they'd do better being that the old animated tv show was cool.
Posted at 2:19AM on Jun 25th 2008 by Al
9. Umm, Al have you ever seen a japanese anime? What did you expect? Hyper-realism? Not going to happen. From the trailer it looks like theres another one where he IS a bat, and another one where he is japanese. Your complaints amount to walking into a horror movie and then complaining that it was scary. This is the style. If you don't like it then cool, its definitely not for everyone, but this is what its going to be like. If its not your style then you should definitely avoid watching the rest of the clips.
Posted at 11:43AM on Jun 25th 2008 by Kevin
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1. ...badass
Posted at 3:08PM on Jun 24th 2008 by Kevin