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The Mutant Leader Stars In A New Clip From BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS!!
Why does the Mutant Leader remind me of the movies’ latest Bane?
That's Gary Anthony WIlliams, who also does the voice of Uncle Ruckus on "The Boondocks," as Mutant Leader.
The PG-13 adaptation of Frank Miller’s seminal graphic novel hits shelves Sept. 25.
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Sept. 6, 2012, 4:52 a.m. CST
am I the only one thinking "2 parts? for animation? ehh... really?"
by TheSeeker7
Seriously, was it really necessarily to break this story up into completely different BD releases, I mean I hate to use the "just animation" route, since I'm surely likely lots of animation is telling far better stories than feature films when it comes to comic books, but this seems a little odd.
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That's how I pictured an animated Dark Knight Returns. Sketchy, kinetic, bone-crunching badassery...
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Read the graphic novel, Nolan sure did.
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I didn't really ever get a generic Saturday Morning cartoon vibe while reading The Dark Knight Returns.
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Sept. 6, 2012, 8:04 a.m. CST
biscuithead... I had never seen those before. Just YouTubed them.
by beastie
That is also, EXACTLY, how I thought an animated version of this story should have gone. Thanks for the recommend.
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As a fan of this graphic novel by Frank Miller, I am saddened by this release. A direct to video adaptation with inferior production value visually. Top this off with no mention above of who originally scribed and illustrated this masterpiece of comic book lore. Frank Miller. I understand that Batman does not belong to Frank Miller, but "The Dark Knight Returns" certainly does. I will be penitent upon watching this, because yes I still am a fan and grasping at the scraps that are fed to us, knowing this could have been so much more. DC and Warner brothers, Frank and the rest of us deserve so much more. http://www.amazon.com/The-Dark-Knight-Diluted/forum/FxAX6G9T1JCHYY/Tx3HP4ZBP0SEJ5T/1/ref=cm_cd_dp_tp_t?_encoding=UTF8&asin=B008RV5K5E
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... they took a scene from the graphic novel that was filled with threat and menace on the page and managed to reduce it to something that sounds like an audition for head villain on an episode of Scooby Doo.<p> bravo. kudos.
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...that clip kind of bums me out a little, plus the PG13, they should at least have made an unrated version too. Some of the other clips released look better, I love they're using the dialog pretty much directly. When I first read about this, I was hoping for something a little more stylized (see below :) ) I may still pick this up based on the other clips and I'd like to see how everything is done (especially the Superman sections). @ biscuithead Wow, the Shanghai stuff is pretty fucking neat. I'm very iffy on most anime (I dig on movies like Wicked City), especially some of the goofy stuff that seems to appear in all the original TV productions, but _that_ is pretty badass. I think the style works perfect with Batman (at least their sort of semi-supernatural take). Is that available as a movie/set/DVD? I'll have to do some research.
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Sept. 6, 2012, 11:15 a.m. CST
re: "Why does the Mutant Leader remind me of the movies’ latest Bane?"
by jim
Hercules is a funny dude or was he being serious (I sometimes can't tell with him)?
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and above all, don't call us late for dinner.
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Sept. 6, 2012, 11:19 a.m. CST
People fearing dilution of the material should check out the actual trailer.
by Chairman_Kaga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JMli3MopNs
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Sept. 6, 2012, 11:49 a.m. CST
From the same people who had SELINA kick Bruce's ass in BATMAN: YEAR ONE, comes an adaptation of the most badass Batman novel ever...
by TopHat
The Mutant Leader is a Scooby-Doo villain... You know it to be true...
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Its not bad ...some dialogue is changed like in the YEARONE adaptation but its pretty faithful except for cutting some of the smaller vignettes taking place within the story.
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The trailer looks like it's faithful, but I bet they completely pass on Batmans certain character traits. Remember, when the comic book was released it was pretty radical, and alluded to a much darker side of Batman. I bet this film doesn't have a single bone breaking sound either.
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. . . you know it to be true.
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Sept. 6, 2012, 12:45 p.m. CST
I will pick up parts 1 and 2 packaged togther in the Walmart 5 dollar bin this time next year.
by A-COD
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It actually does ...its violent. Notice that its not Frank Millers Dark Knight Returns..as the same with YEAR ONE. I was annoyed by small changes in dialogue ..the one thing it looses is the great internal dialogue again as with YEAR ONE. It excludes many of the vignettes in the book like the guy who shoots up the porn theater etc.... its not bad but i wanted it to mirror Millers Art work a bit more...the Two Face storyline is truncated a bit as well.
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....was the be all, end all of Batman writers. of course back in 1986 i was 13 years old. needles to say a lot has changed in 26 years. <p> so as far as this mutant leader becoming a scooby doo villain thing goes, i'd suggest that maybe that was actually the case all along. it just takes a little looking past all of the nostalgia to see the truth. <p> sorry, it's just that even when i was 13 i didn't find the mutant gang or thier leader very intimidating. they all dressed like extras from a WHAM! video for christs sake. i don't care who you are..... bright floresent colored clothes are NOT cool. <p> I don't shiv. <p> spud.
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Batman is DC's (last remaining?) cash cow, so I can see why they'd want to milk his stuff for whatever they can get. But we've gotten adaptations of much deeper material that have been given much smaller running times. I don't really look forward to these anymore because they usually remove too much from the stories that made them great. Dark Knight Returns honestly hasn't aged so well, so it's a bit of a shame that this is the one that gets the "full story" treatment.
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Sept. 6, 2012, 3:52 p.m. CST
I don't think it's diluted, I just don't like the framerates on the animation.
by Royston Lodge
The framerates in the trailer seem really herky-jerky, and the lip-sync seems off. I'm hoping this isn't the case for the actual movie.
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While the stuff with Harvey Dent in the first half of the book is interesting, the stuff with The Joker and with Superman are way more interesting than the stuff with the Mutants and the new Robin. Part 1 is just a warm-up for the awesomeness of Part 2.
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Sept. 6, 2012, 3:59 p.m. CST
Have they announced the voice actors for The Joker and Superman yet?
by Royston Lodge
I'm also curious if they're keeping the Ronnie Ray-gun style president.
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Sept. 6, 2012, 4:05 p.m. CST
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, FIX THE FUCKING EXPAND ALL BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Nasty In The Pasty
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because he's obviously hungry.
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Michael Emerson is voicing the Joker.
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Sept. 6, 2012, 5:26 p.m. CST
Again, I have high hopes. But they really screwed up Doomsday
by kstewandthecuntsman
Granted, I think it was the first of these direct to video DCU type things. But they raped a truly great storyline. The Death of Supes story, now that one warranted a two parter. Absolutely terrible the way it turned out. Let's hope Dark Knight gets the treatment it deserves and stays truer to the original book.
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here is my list 1. neal adams 2. mike grell 3. jack kirby 4. jim starlin 5. steve steranko 6. jim lee 7. todd mcfarlane and i wouldnt know where 2 put simonson. i agree with most posters, his style is insipid and hurried
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Is "Steve" any relation to Jim Steranko? j/k I would have to include Frazetta, Wrightson, and Ross pretty danged high on my list, and probably take out Starlin, Lee and McFarlane if I had a limited list.
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Sept. 6, 2012, 9:41 p.m. CST
Too much talking. Someone needs to tell Bane/these types that no one gives a shit.
by happybunni
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TV Guide did a story about it. The picture they showed of the Joker is pretty different then how he looks in the novel: He's fatter, looks more like a 40-50 year-old.
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Sept. 6, 2012, 9:47 p.m. CST
This Mutant Leader sounds like the B:TAS version after some voice/diction classes...
by Bill C.
...or maybe it's just me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PejJkjwcDps
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Quite wonderful aren't they. As far as I know they were produced by a Chinese studio called 'Wolf Smoke' and broadcast on Cartoon Network as part of the 'DC Nation' series of shorts. Don't know if they're available to buy in any form but no doubt they'll turn up as a DVD extra somewhere...
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won't everyone have 8k video cameras that work in low light in every portable device in like 5 years? I know this isn't a modern work, but nobody seemed able to predict that in the future cameras and video quality would possibly improve.
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Dude named Mark Valley is playing Supes. He was the lead in that Human Target series from a few years ago.
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Actually, terrorists and underground groups actually do use old-school analog video for recording messages, not because they don't have access to modern videocameras, but because they are less traceable. They intentionally introduce audio and video artifacts, distortion, and noise so that forensic experts have a more difficult time determining exactly where the videos were taken. You don't need a tinfoil hat to know that a lot of modern technology puts digital identification marks on recorded data. Any user can access stuff like geotagging in photo files. How much MORE info is going to be put on future recordings, in ways that ordinary users cannot detect, let alone access?
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Sept. 8, 2012, 2:09 p.m. CST
I wouldn't know the first thing about animation, but I don't know why they decide to stick to script from the novel but can't adapt the style.
by Detective_Fingerling
All of DC's direct to video animation looks basically identical to one another. I guess year one looked slightly different, but not drastically. Whoever said the Batman of Shanghai style was spot on. That would have been a much better style choice in my opinion. Is it just not possible to render animation outside of what DC does or would it just take exponentially longer to do so?
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