On the heels of our trailer debut and canopy story for Batman: Caped Crusader, IGN may solely reveal the voice actors portraying Batman’s closest allies within the new Prime Video animated collection.
The voice forged is led by Hamish Linklater as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Christina Ricci as Catwoman/Selina Kyle, Jamie Chung as Harley Quinn/Harleen Quinzel, and Diedrich Bader as Two-Face/Harvey Dent.
Joining the forged as Batman’s closest allies are Jason Watkins as Alfred Pennyworth, Eric Morgan Stuart as Commissioner Jim Gordon, Krystal Joy Brown as Barbara Gordon, Michelle C. Bonilla as Renee Montoya, and Bumper Robinson as Lucius Fox.
The roles performed by beforehand introduced forged members Minnie Driver, McKenna Grace, John DiMaggio, Paul Scheer, Reid Scott, Tom Kenny, Gary Anthony Williams, Dan Donohue, David Krumholtz, Haley Joel Osment, and Toby Stephens haven’t but been disclosed.
In this retro, noir-infused reimagining, Batman is a vigilante within the early days of his crime-fighting profession whose one-man campaign earns him each allies and adversaries throughout the Gotham City Police Department and City Hall.
As govt producer James Tucker instructed us for our cowl story, “(Caped Crusader) feels extra like an ensemble piece as a result of we’re as invested in among the different characters now as we’re in Batman as a result of they’re the people within the story now. He’s type of eliminated, and so everybody else will get much more shine – Alfred, the Gordons, Montoya. All the secondary characters step up in significance within the story.”
Here are the official Batman: Caped Crusader character descriptions (save for Lucius Fox, which was unavailable at time of publish):
- ALFRED PENNYWORTH
- Bruce Wayne’s loyal and invaluable aide. The one one who has a window into the person behind the masks.
- BARBARA GORDON
- Raised with a robust sense of justice and proper and improper by her police commissioner father, Barbara grew disillusioned with the corruption within the police power and went into Law as a substitute. She’s presently an over-worked, under-paid Public Defender.
- COMMISSIONER JIM GORDON
- Former beat cop near retirement, Gordon was employed to play together with the corrupt system and run out the clock until he can draw a pension. But they’ve sorely underestimated Jim Gordon. His unassailable character brings him into battle with soiled cops and crooked politicians, alike. Not to say he has to reckon with a deranged vigilante beating up Gotham’s criminals.
- DETECTIVE RENEE MONTOYA
- Detective Renee Montoya grew up in Gotham City and believes it’s her obligation to vary her metropolis for the higher. She seems to be as much as Commissioner Gordon as a mentor and he views her as a uncommon and reliable ally within the corrupt division. Though at first, she doesn’t belief the masked vigilante, Montoya regularly turns into a member of Batman’s inner-circle of semi-reluctant allies.
Batman: Caped Crusader can even characteristic recent new takes on such notorious DC Comics rogues as Clayface, Penguin, Firebug and extra. “You would possibly suppose that we’re altering one thing simply to vary it,” govt producer Bruce Timm instructed IGN. “But it was by no means about that; it was extra about the place will it lead us? Will it lead us to do one thing new?”
In addition to Bruce Timm and James Tucker, the collection’ govt producers additionally embody J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves, Ed Brubaker, Daniel Pipski, Rachel Rusch Rich, and Sam Register.
Hailing from Warner Bros. Animation, Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and Reeves’ sixth & Idaho, all ten episodes of Batman: Caped Crusader’s first season will premiere on Prime Video on August 1.
