Batman: Caped Crusader creators reveal that early on the decision was made not to make it a continuation of Batman: The Animated Series
Exclusive |Bruce Timm a𓃲nd co. explain how the new Prime Video series follows in the footsteps o💦f the legendary '90s show

New Prime Video TV show 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Batman: Caped Crusader follows in the footsteps of the beloved Batman: The Animated Series in many ways. Creative animation? Check! Iconic villains? Check! Brilliant voicဣe actors? Check! Exciting stories? Check! An impressive theme? Check!
With the two sharing the same DNA, you may be wondering why the new chapter isn't simply a continuation of the legendary '90s show? For showrunner 🥃Bruce Timm, who was also a co-creator of Batman: The Animated Series, this was one of the earliest and most important decisions tha෴t was made when developing Caped Crusader as it allowed them to focus on doing something different rather than repeating what has come before.
As Timm tells 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:SFX magazine in the new issue, which hits newsstands on August 7 and features 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Alien: Romulus on the cover: "We decided early on that we did🌳n&rsq🐻uo;t want it to be a continuation of Batman: The Animated Series. We wanted to use a lot of the same building materials but do something different with them, so that we weren't just doing remakes of the old shows or sequels to the old stories."
Continuing, Timm adds that he did want to nod to the original show with a period setting, although he didn't quite get his way: "The decidedly period nature of it is something that I really wanted to do, gꦦoing back to the beginning of B:TAS. If I’d had my way, I would have set that show directly in the ’40s, but during the development process it became apparent that would probably have been a sticking point in terms of all the different people we’d have to get approvals f💛rom, like Fox Kids and the toy companies."
Although Caped Crusader couldn't be directly set in the '40s due to the reasons above, the team wanted to ensure it felt like it was made during that decade, as executi😼ve producer James Tucker emphasizes: "We wanted this to feel as though it was made in the '40s, whereas B:TAS didn’t feel like that. It had a '40s 🌸milieu, if you will, but it’s still very much a '90s show."
Agreeing, Timm concludes: "James [Tucker] and I definitely wanted to lean much more into the period of it both in terms of the technology and also the cars and the fashions and the hairstyles. I’ve always been a fan of that era in terms of the movies – the monster movies and the serials, the fi m no🍎ir and stuff like that."
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Emily Murray is a former Entertainment Editor of GamesRadar+, once responsible for overseeing all the online content for Total Film and SFX magazine. Emily has previously worked for the BBC, Zavvi, UNILAD, Yahoo, Digital Spy and more. When Emily isn't writing about film and TV, she can be found cuddling her cat on the sofa, likely bingeing New Girl for the millionth time (Nick Miller is the love of my life)🧸. You can also fiꦺnd her waxing lyrical about Christopher Nolan on a podcast dedicated to his filmography.