Peter Weller Is The New BATMAN In THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS

Todd Brown, Founder and Editor
RoboCop is the new Batman. Or, at least, he is the new voice of Batman.

Warner Brothers currently have director Jay Oliva hard at work on a two film animated adaptation of Frank Miller's 1986 comic miniseries The Dark Knight Returns, an adaptation that The Hollywood Reporter tells us will include the voice talents of Peter Weller, David Selby, Wade Williams, Ariel Winter and Michael McKean.

One of the most influential comic series of all time, The Dark Knight Returns adaptation will be released in two parts as Batman: The Dark Knight Returns with the first installment due in early 2013.
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  • Tuan Jim

    Didn't Kevin Conroy voice Batman for the DKR homage episode (Legends of the Dark Knight) in the original animated series? Why not just keep him on again? - he's still the best for a project like this.

  • Rathan Krueger

    It was Michael Ironside. Funny story about this turn of events: originally, Paul Verhoeven wanted Ironside to be Robocop, but he was too big to fit in what the suit was planned to be (he got his shot at teaming up with Verhoeven later, though). Although it wasn't built yet, the idea was that the Robosuit needed a slender actor to be in it because they'd be bulked up. Think of it as Edward Norton becoming Arnold Schwarzenegger (the latter REALLY wanted to be Robocop, but he would've ended up looking like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man [he got his shot at teaming up with Verhoeven later, though]). Ironside wasn't buff, but he was still too large to make Robocop not look goofy. Verhoeven eventually found Peter Weller and the rest... yeah. What I was getting at was that this makes twice that Weller slid into something meant for Ironside. Oh well... Ironside can say that he was in a Cronenberg film. But so can Weller. Hurm.

  • andrewz

    Always good to see actors that aren't the latest 20-something hunk/hottie get work.

    Does Mr. Weller still teach college students?

  • Rathan Krueger

    I think he does. He also had a few things to say over the weekend at a showing of "Robocop": http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/05/20/peter-weller-modern-movies-cant-replicate-morality-of-robocop/#/3

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