[OVAs]Batman: Gotham Knight's

Japanese-Animated Batman: Gotham Knight's Promo Video
posted on 2008-02-15
Studio 4°C, Production I.G, Madhouse working with Bruce Timm on project

Chris Drake, one of the composers for the joint American/Japanese production of the Batman: Gotham Knight animated video collection, has pointed to an online trailer for the project. Drake reveals that he, Robert J. Kral (Angel), and Kevin Manthei (Invader Zim, Justice League: New Frontier) each wrote music for two of the six stories of DC Comics' iconic masked detective. The Japanese animation studios Studio 4°C (The Animatrix, Genius Party), Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell, Blood: The Last Vampire), and Madhouse (X movie, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust) are working with the Batman films' Warner Brothers and Bruce Timm, the acclaimed co-creator and producer of Batman the Animated Series and other animated DC Universe projects. All three anime studios worked on another American/Japanese animated movie tie-in video from Warner Brothers, The Animatrix. The Batman video is planned for a June release.

Batman comic writers Brian Azzarello and Greg Rucka, A History of Violence film writer Josh Olson, Batman Begins writer David S. Goyer, The Dark Knight producer Jordan Goldberg, and Batman: The Animated Series writer Alan Burnett are each contributing the script for one of the shorts. Even before this project, other Japanese creators have helped develop the Batman mythos — specifically, Tokyo Movie Shinsha and Sunrise (Batman: The Animated Series), Kia Asamiya (Batman: The Child of Dreams comic series), and Katsuhiro Otomo (Batman: Black & White #4's "The Third Mask" comic short story).

Source: Ain't It Cool News via Anime Nation

*The accompanying image is from Kia Asamiya's comic version of Batman. No announcement has been made about his or any invidivdual Japanese artist's involvement in the Batman: Gotham Knight project.

Fuente:Animenetwork.com

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Animenewsnetwork.com escribió:Directors Named for Japanese-Animated Batman Video
posted on 2008-02-25
Includes Tsubasa's Morioka, Tweeny Witches' Aoki, Giant Robo character designer Kubooka

DC Comics and Warner Home Video have confirmed the five Japanese directors and the release date for the Batman: Gotham Knight anthology of animated shorts. The directors are Shoujirou Nishimi (Mind Game key animator, Tekkonkinkreet character designer and overall animation director), Futoshi Higashide (Giant Robo key animator, Saber Marionette J animation director), Hiroshi Morioka (.hack//SIGN unit director, Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE co-director), Yasuhiro Aoki (Animatrix's "Beyond" key animator, Tweeny Witches director) and Toshiyuki Kubooka (Gunbuster chief animation director, Giant Robo character designer). Previously, Warner had announced that Japan's Studio 4°C, Madhouse, and Production I.G would be creating the animation, but had not announced any specific directors until now.

As reported in December, the script for the film will be created by a team of American writers, including Josh Olson, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his A History of Violence script, comics writers Greg Rucka and Brian Azzarello, screenwriters David Goyer and Alan Burnett, and The Dark Knight producer Jordan Goldberg.

The project will be released throughout North America on standard DVD and high-definition Blu-ray Disc on July 8. On the same date, it will be made available via video-on-demand, pay-per-view, and digital downloads. It will also be supported by a major natonwide publicity campaign, to include extensive print advertising and coverage as well as promotional television spots. Gotham Knight will be released as a standard US$24.98 DVD and a two-disc special edition, with extras including a selection of episodes from the mid-1990s Batman: The Animated Series and a documentary on Bob Kane, the creator of Batman. The special edition will be priced at US$29.98, while the Blu-ray release, which will also include the special edition's extras, is set to retail at US$34.98.