A 55-year-old Batman comes out of retirement cranky, broken, and absolutely ready to ruin someone's day.
Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing fifty-five-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl, but does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?
Direction
Oliva translates Miller's panels with obsessive frame-for-frame precision.
Score
Thundering orchestral gloom that sounds like Gotham's funeral.
Director
Jay Oliva
Peter Weller
Bruce Wayne / Batman (voice)
Ariel Winter
Carrie Kelley / Robin (voice)
David Selby
Commissioner James Gordon (voice)
Wade Williams
Harvey Dent / Two-Face (voice)
Michael Emerson
Joker (voice)
Dee Bradley Baker
Don / Fat Mutant / Additional Voices (voice)
Maria Canals-Barrera
Commissioner Ellen Yindel (voice)
Paget Brewster
Lana Lang (voice)
Richard Doyle
The Mayor (voice)
Michael Jackson
Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Yuri Lowenthal
The Son of Batman / Rookie Police Officer (voice)
Michael McKean
Dr. Bartholomew Wolper (voice)
James Patrick Stuart
Murray / Radio Voice (voice)
James Arnold Taylor
Mr. Hudson / Spud (voice)
Bruce Timm
Thomas Wayne / Hydrant Fireman (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Frank Miller hated the 1989 Burton film so much he wrote this comic as corrective propaganda; the adaptation keeps his obsessive panel layouts shot-for-shot.
The Reagan-era satire hits different post-2016; the media-debate scenes between Lana Lang and Dr. Wolper basically predicted cable news hell.
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