An Animated Big Screen Batman Beyond Could Be Happening

Due to the phenomenal critical, audience and fan reaction to smash hit Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, it was a matter of when, not if, Warner Bros Animation and DC Films worked together with a bigger budget to bring a DC animation to the big screen.

Now it looks like it’s happening and it’s the ideal choice as Geeks WorldWide is reporting WB is working on an animated Batman Beyond movie.

It comes after some leaked concept art got its way onto Reddit (you know the highest of all reliable sources) and GWW did some digging and state Batman Beyond will be getting a theatrical release slated for a 2022 release with the project going into production in 2020.

I feel like that’s a little bit bollocks as we know from the likes of Disney and Pixar that animation takes forever so if they’re aiming for a 2022 release that they should be started to get drawings and everything else prepped once the buzz of Spider-Verse started in November 2018.

While I truly hope this is true, I’m going to wait for the likes of The Hollywood Reporter, Variety or even Deadline and Collider breaks the story. So basically take this report as a rumour with the biggest pinch of salt humanly possible.

However, if it is true then making Terry McGinnis Asian American is the only way they can go and bringing in an Asian American actor to voice is also right which is way my top two picks would be Ryan Potter, who’s going a great job as Beast Boy in Titans, or Harry Shum Jr from Glee and Crazy Rich Asians.

Both actors would be ideal McGinnis’ if Warner Bros ever went live-action.

As for older Bruce Wayne, there would be social media outrage if it wasn’t Michael Keaton.

Meanwhile, I have two picks for the director as Jay Oliva and Sam Liu have done great things for the DC Animated straight-to-DVD films with Oliva handling the two-part The Dark Knight Returns, Flashpoint Paradox and Justice League Dark. The same can be said for Liu with the recent Superman two-parter The Death of Superman & Reign of the Supermen as well as Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay.

Either man deserves the chance to handle this project for their superb work.

I’m sure fans would’ve loved to see Batman Beyond as a live-action, but Spider-verse has proven animation has been a fantastic way to tell a superhero origin story as well as building a universe and breaking ground in the genre. Animation would be perfect for Beyond because of the character being set in the future and it could continue where Spider-Verse started.