New Batman & Harley Quinn Animated Movie Details
A Reluctant Team-Up
By Alex Burns
Empire have revealed the first official details for the next DC Animated Original Movie - Batman & Harley Quinn.
“Executive produced by Bruce Timm, who goes back to his classic style heralded in Batman: The Animated Series, this is an original story featuring the reluctant team-up of Batman, Nightwing and Harley Quinn to try and stop a global catastrophe caused by Poison Ivy and Jason Woodrue, AKA the Plant-Master,” Empire details.
With Bruce Timm's animation style from The New Batman Adventures and both Kevin Conroy and Loren Lester reunited as Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, is it any wonder we can't wait to see this film? Also a bit of TV sitcom royalty joins the cast in the form of The Big Bang Theory's Melisa Rauch.
“I love that Harley is a badass and, beyond that, that she uses her humor as another weapon in her arsenal,” Rauch said. “She knows just how to diffuse a situation with her humor, and how to incite a situation with her sarcasm. It’s a dream role.”
She adds: “I knew Harley had a higher pitched tone, and a bit of a New York accent — and I come from a New Jersey family where everyone could be former gun molls. So I wanted to give a nod to my background without being as shrill. In all honesty, I used to speak exactly like that — my acting school professors really worked the accent out of me. So it was fun to find those tones and accent again.”
Rauch inherits a role previously voiced by Arleen Sorkin and Tara Strong.
The film will be an original story and doesn't look to connect to the established DC Animated Universe that began with Batman: The Animated Series and finished with Justice League Unlimited. It's still great to see an animated movie back in a classic style that celebrates the spirit of those classic cartoons.
Expect Batman & Harley Quinn to release Summer 2017
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