You may have heard the rumblings about a possible Batman: Year One animated feature. Comics Continuum mentioned it yesterday and it was also posted on our forums (courtesy of Johnny Spam). You might (or might not) be aware that I am a big fan of Batman. When I heard about a possible Batman: Year One feature, I did some digging. 
 
Batman: Year One will not be the next animated feature. The next feature will be Superman/Batman: Apocalypse.

I can't wait!

Although I very briefly read Public Enemies, I thought the film was a good adaptation of the story, especially with Tim Daly, Kevin Conroy and Clancy Brown returning to reprise their respective roles. I definitely would approve for a sequel to Superman/Batman. And while I think it would be interesting to see an animated version of Batman: Year One, I think we have already seen a Year One story already with Batman Begins, so that would explain why Batman: Year One will not be adapted for an Animated Feature.

Exciting!

looking foward to both

Public Enemies was a huge disappointment.  And did I not read something earlier that DC was not putting out anymore animated movies ?  Was that just a gimmick ?

Batman already has the movie monopoly - no complaining.  Year One would be dope though. I look forward to it. 
 
Do we know who's doing the voices for this?  
 
And, can we start a campaign to get them to make a movie to finish off the JLU series? (with the right voices of course).

Year one would be sweet! not to excited about batman/superman, thought public enemies was terrible! By far the worst animated feature DC has put out. And way to much gay refernces.
 
I also heard they wernt doing any more animated features. Or was that they stopped all the ones in prep to start these ones? no clue ha

Woo got a mention in the headline. I think Apocalypse will be the Supergirl arc from the comics as it followed Public Enemies and is more accessible then the Absolute Power arc. 
 
With Batman Begins does anyone else think there is a need for it? The only way is to focus on Gordon and Catwoman. It's short story makes it a prime candidate for animation.

Wait... didn't DC pull the plug on their animated features?

As much as I love Bats and Supes 

I would like to see them do a Flash and Green Lantern : Brave and the Bold or a teamup  of GL & Green Arrow.

Enough with th Batman $h!t there are other great DC characters who deserve movies..

" Wait... didn't DC pull the plug on their animated features? "

YES!!! Who wants to see Batman's origin AGAIN when we can get a ALWAYS awesome Superman/Batman team up

As much as i would love to see a Batman Year One animated movie, didn't Begins and Dark Knight sort of do it?  Maybe thats why they aren't doing it yet, because the movies are using it still.  They are adapting ideas from those comics.
I think maybe they are going for the bigger more comic book stories that are better suited for animation like Public Enemies and Crisis, movies that would be much harder to do in live action.
 
Batman seems like DC's Hulk, any animated movie will most likely have him in it because he sells them big time.

" Wait... didn't DC pull the plug on their animated features? "

" @cold_fuzion: @cold_fuzion said:

" Wait... didn't DC pull the plug on their animated features? "

They pulled the plug on DVDs starring women and little known characters the Justice League, Batman and Superman ones have been doing well so they will continue with them along with the DC Showcase. "

" @johnny spam said:

" @cold_fuzion: @cold_fuzion said:

" Wait... didn't DC pull the plug on their animated features? "

They pulled the plug on DVDs starring women and little known characters the Justice League, Batman and Superman ones have been doing well so they will continue with them along with the DC Showcase. "

Ah, well that's lame. I liked the Wonder Woman movie. It was the best one they've put out recently. "

DC needs to quit playing games and do a SUPERMAN: RED SON flick...

If we're talking a Batman animated movie, I really want Long Halloween. As far as other heroes, I think it's time Green Arrow and Black Canary step into the DCU animated limelight.

Apocalypse? Supergirl was the sequel to Public Enemies. Maybe they just changed the name to Apocalypse. I wonder what will be the Showcase feature for it. Green Arrow?

" Enough with th Batman $h!t there are other great DC characters who deserve movies.. "

I would had rather seen GL First Flight have a sequel than S/B.

"Apocalypse" makes it sound like it has something to do with Darkseid.  I really liked Public Enemies, and I hope this one is as good. 
 
By the way, is "Red Hood" out yet?

I think there are more interesting things they can do with Batman than an adaptation of Year One anyway. That book speaks for itself and I think the Nolan films have given us as awesome an origin update as he's going to get in an adapted medium.

Oh yeah.I read before about the next possibly Superman/Batman animated movie to be around the Absolute Power story of the comic series,like they did on first one with Public Enemies,but either way I don't mind what the plot would be.Stoked!

"By the way, is "Red Hood" out yet? "

 Plz no Frank Miller story, plz no

Damn. Just when you think DC is FINALLY paying some attention to other DC characters  They go with Bats and Supes again. 
 
Dont get me wrong, I love 'em both, but this is always the problem with DC / WB... it's all Batman and superman or nobody else! 
 
Not looking forwart to it. Will watch it, but it would've been nice to have, I dunno, The Flash, Aquaman, Teen Titans, Anybody instead of another World's finest centric animated film,

Will S/B: Apocalypse be based on the Absolute Power in Superman/Batman? That would be perfect to have a DTV adaptation.

" I really wanted Long Halloween. "

Batman has had too many movies...

I like the ideal of Batman Year One.

if the next film is the supergirl arc, that be sweet! but only time will tell

I also hope is the supergirl arc, that was the first trade i bought in my entire life, the second was dark knight returns.
i'm still sad about no green lantern ff sequel, I'm planing to buy it online soon, in my country there's nowhere you can fin DCanimated movies (or OVAs, like my friends who love anime call them), but I'm the proud owner of Batman GK, JL new frontier, crisis on two earths and superman batman PE, and future owner of a 2 disc DVD (yeah, not Blu-ray yet) of batman under the red hood.

  Batman: Why can't I get my own movie?

I think they like having Batman interact with Superman, because their interaction is very humanizing for Superman. It gives them each someone to play off of. It's a classic good cop, bad cop ideal.
 
Batman Year One does sound like it could be cool.
 
 
I am curious about what Apocalypse is about. The name certainly implies something.

Well, I hope that Apocalypse will be worth watching.