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clockThis article was published more than\u00a06 years ago
Few understand how much superhero entertainment has changed over the past\u00a025 years quite like animation producer Bruce Timm.
In the early 1990s, Timm was a part of the creative team behind \u201cBatman: The Animated Series,\u201d considered by many fans to be the standard in comic book cartoons. It created a generation of followers\u00a0of the Warner Bros. Animation brand, which later released\u00a0\u201cSuperman: The Animated Series\u201d and \u201cJustice League.\u201d
Warner Bros. and DC Comics\u2019s animation golden age\u00a0in the \u201990s received a huge assist from a now unheard-of lack of competition.
\u201cThere\u2019s [now] tons of live-action superhero shows on TV and in the movies,\u201d\u00a0Timm told The Washington Post\u2019s Comic Riffs while in Washington for the DC Comics event \u201cDC in D.C.\u201d \u201cOn a promotional level, it\u2019s just harder to carve out a little bit of airtime in the bandwidth because there\u2019s so much noise and other stuff for people\u2019s attention.\u201d
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Timm spends most of his time now producing projects for WB/DC\u2019s popular straight-to-home-video animated movies. \u201cDC in D.C.\u201d last week included the premiere of the latest one, \u201cBatman: Gotham by Gaslight,\u201d based on the late 1980s Elseworlds tale from DC Comics that sees a Victorian-era Batman go up against Jack the Ripper.\u00a0(It will be\u00a0available digitally Jan. 23 and on Blu-ray Feb. 6.)
Compared\u00a0with movies, \u201cwhen you actually do a TV series it\u2019s a lot more like guerrilla warfare in that you have to rush and crank a show out. You get it shipped overseas. It comes back, you get it edited, you stick it on the air, and you\u2019re moving on to your next episode. And you get into kind of a rhythm,\u201d Timm said. \u201cWith the [animated] movies you get a little bit more time to finesse things, but they both scratch different itches. I\u2019d definitely do another series someday if the right project came along.\u201d
Timm says there is a misconception that working in animated universes means you\u2019re limited only by your imagination. He says even movies at WB/DC have budgets that limit the amount of backgrounds and locations designed\u00a0and the\u00a0characters created. But he does enjoy the freedom of being able to produce one-shot adventures that don\u2019t have the pressure of becoming franchise starters that the live-action DC Comics movies have.
\u201cYou can\u2019t do something that\u2019s that quirky and unique\u201d in live-action, Timm said referring to projects like \u201cBatman: Gotham by Gaslight. \u201cSo yeah, we definitely have a little more license, a little more freedom, to play around with different tones and different styles than they do in the live-action movies, for sure.\u201d
Last year, fans enjoyed a reunion of sorts with Timm and the \u201cBatman: The Animated Series\u201d universe when he co-produced \u201cBatman and Harley Quinn,\u201d an animated movie made in the \u201cBTAS\u201d style that brought back the voice talents of Kevin Conroy (Batman) and Loren Lester (Nightwing). The film served as a chance to take advantage of Harley Quinn\u2019s higher profile after Margot Robbie\u2019s performance as the character in WB/DC\u2019s \u201cSuicide Squad\u201d movie, and to give her a chance to shine once again in the animated world where she made her debut. As fun of a reconnection as it was for Timm, he doesn\u2019t plan on making visits to the \u201cBTAS\u201d world frequently.
\u201cI don\u2019t have a burning desire to go back and make more \u2018BTAS\u2019 style stuff. I mean, it was fun this one time. . . . I hate to have to compete with the memory of the work I did 25 years ago,\u201d Timm said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people . . . who revere \u2018Batman: The Animated Series,\u2019 and anything I do now, people are automatically going to compare it to not just the actual show but to their memory of that show. The way that show made them feel back 25 years ago when they were 13. So, it\u2019s really, really tough. . . . Whether I\u2019d go back and do it again, maybe. We\u2019ll see.\u201d
For now, Timm is enjoying having the entire DC Comics library at his disposal for inspiration for future adventures, noting that WB/DC\u2019s next animated feature could be based on a classic, such as \u201cBatman: Gotham by Gaslight,\u201d or it could be something new from DC\u2019s currently successful \u201cRebirth\u201d reboot on the company\u2019s comic publishing side.
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\u201cI\u2019m hoping [\u2018Gotham by Gaslight\u2019] does really well. There\u2019s several other Elseworlds-type titles that we would love to do if this movie is a success,\u201d Timm said. \u201cWe pull stuff from the current comics all the time. If they come up with an idea that we think will work for us in animation, we\u2019ll be happy to steal it.\u201d
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Bruce Walter Timm (born February 5, 1961) is an animator and television producer. He is also a writer and artist working in comics. He is well known for his contributions building the modern DCAU.\n
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Timm's early career in animation was varied; he started at Filmation, working on the layout of Blackstar, Flash Gordon and The Lone Ranger. He also worked for numerous other employers, including Don Bluth Productions, and attempted to find work at Marvel Comics and DC Comics, but without luck. In 1989, Timm joined Warner Brothers.\n
While Timm does not usually work as an actor, he has provided voices for some characters in the animated series and movies he has been involved in. His most notable appearances include voicing the Mad Bomber and J-Man.\n
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While Timm is primarily known for his work in animation, he has also worked in comics, a lifelong passion for him. He was involved with Batman Adventures and has also worked on Avengers and Vampirella. He is also a popular cover and pin-up artist.\n
In 1994, Timm and Paul Dini won the Eisner Award for Best Single Story for Batman Adventures: Mad Love. He won the same prize the next year as well, for Batman Adventures Holiday Special, with Dini, Ronnie del Carmen and others.\n
He also co-created Harley Quinn (with writer Paul Dini), working from Dini's original design.\n
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clockThis article was published more than\u00a06 years ago
Few understand how much superhero entertainment has changed over the past\u00a025 years quite like animation producer Bruce Timm.
In the early 1990s, Timm was a part of the creative team behind \u201cBatman: The Animated Series,\u201d considered by many fans to be the standard in comic book cartoons. It created a generation of followers\u00a0of the Warner Bros. Animation brand, which later released\u00a0\u201cSuperman: The Animated Series\u201d and \u201cJustice League.\u201d
Warner Bros. and DC Comics\u2019s animation golden age\u00a0in the \u201990s received a huge assist from a now unheard-of lack of competition.
\u201cThere\u2019s [now] tons of live-action superhero shows on TV and in the movies,\u201d\u00a0Timm told The Washington Post\u2019s Comic Riffs while in Washington for the DC Comics event \u201cDC in D.C.\u201d \u201cOn a promotional level, it\u2019s just harder to carve out a little bit of airtime in the bandwidth because there\u2019s so much noise and other stuff for people\u2019s attention.\u201d
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Timm spends most of his time now producing projects for WB/DC\u2019s popular straight-to-home-video animated movies. \u201cDC in D.C.\u201d last week included the premiere of the latest one, \u201cBatman: Gotham by Gaslight,\u201d based on the late 1980s Elseworlds tale from DC Comics that sees a Victorian-era Batman go up against Jack the Ripper.\u00a0(It will be\u00a0available digitally Jan. 23 and on Blu-ray Feb. 6.)
Compared\u00a0with movies, \u201cwhen you actually do a TV series it\u2019s a lot more like guerrilla warfare in that you have to rush and crank a show out. You get it shipped overseas. It comes back, you get it edited, you stick it on the air, and you\u2019re moving on to your next episode. And you get into kind of a rhythm,\u201d Timm said. \u201cWith the [animated] movies you get a little bit more time to finesse things, but they both scratch different itches. I\u2019d definitely do another series someday if the right project came along.\u201d
Timm says there is a misconception that working in animated universes means you\u2019re limited only by your imagination. He says even movies at WB/DC have budgets that limit the amount of backgrounds and locations designed\u00a0and the\u00a0characters created. But he does enjoy the freedom of being able to produce one-shot adventures that don\u2019t have the pressure of becoming franchise starters that the live-action DC Comics movies have.
\u201cYou can\u2019t do something that\u2019s that quirky and unique\u201d in live-action, Timm said referring to projects like \u201cBatman: Gotham by Gaslight. \u201cSo yeah, we definitely have a little more license, a little more freedom, to play around with different tones and different styles than they do in the live-action movies, for sure.\u201d
Last year, fans enjoyed a reunion of sorts with Timm and the \u201cBatman: The Animated Series\u201d universe when he co-produced \u201cBatman and Harley Quinn,\u201d an animated movie made in the \u201cBTAS\u201d style that brought back the voice talents of Kevin Conroy (Batman) and Loren Lester (Nightwing). The film served as a chance to take advantage of Harley Quinn\u2019s higher profile after Margot Robbie\u2019s performance as the character in WB/DC\u2019s \u201cSuicide Squad\u201d movie, and to give her a chance to shine once again in the animated world where she made her debut. As fun of a reconnection as it was for Timm, he doesn\u2019t plan on making visits to the \u201cBTAS\u201d world frequently.
\u201cI don\u2019t have a burning desire to go back and make more \u2018BTAS\u2019 style stuff. I mean, it was fun this one time. . . . I hate to have to compete with the memory of the work I did 25 years ago,\u201d Timm said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people . . . who revere \u2018Batman: The Animated Series,\u2019 and anything I do now, people are automatically going to compare it to not just the actual show but to their memory of that show. The way that show made them feel back 25 years ago when they were 13. So, it\u2019s really, really tough. . . . Whether I\u2019d go back and do it again, maybe. We\u2019ll see.\u201d
For now, Timm is enjoying having the entire DC Comics library at his disposal for inspiration for future adventures, noting that WB/DC\u2019s next animated feature could be based on a classic, such as \u201cBatman: Gotham by Gaslight,\u201d or it could be something new from DC\u2019s currently successful \u201cRebirth\u201d reboot on the company\u2019s comic publishing side.
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\u201cI\u2019m hoping [\u2018Gotham by Gaslight\u2019] does really well. There\u2019s several other Elseworlds-type titles that we would love to do if this movie is a success,\u201d Timm said. \u201cWe pull stuff from the current comics all the time. If they come up with an idea that we think will work for us in animation, we\u2019ll be happy to steal it.\u201d
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clockThis article was published more than\u00a06 years ago
Few understand how much superhero entertainment has changed over the past\u00a025 years quite like animation producer Bruce Timm.
In the early 1990s, Timm was a part of the creative team behind \u201cBatman: The Animated Series,\u201d considered by many fans to be the standard in comic book cartoons. It created a generation of followers\u00a0of the Warner Bros. Animation brand, which later released\u00a0\u201cSuperman: The Animated Series\u201d and \u201cJustice League.\u201d
Warner Bros. and DC Comics\u2019s animation golden age\u00a0in the \u201990s received a huge assist from a now unheard-of lack of competition.
\u201cThere\u2019s [now] tons of live-action superhero shows on TV and in the movies,\u201d\u00a0Timm told The Washington Post\u2019s Comic Riffs while in Washington for the DC Comics event \u201cDC in D.C.\u201d \u201cOn a promotional level, it\u2019s just harder to carve out a little bit of airtime in the bandwidth because there\u2019s so much noise and other stuff for people\u2019s attention.\u201d
Advertisement
Timm spends most of his time now producing projects for WB/DC\u2019s popular straight-to-home-video animated movies. \u201cDC in D.C.\u201d last week included the premiere of the latest one, \u201cBatman: Gotham by Gaslight,\u201d based on the late 1980s Elseworlds tale from DC Comics that sees a Victorian-era Batman go up against Jack the Ripper.\u00a0(It will be\u00a0available digitally Jan. 23 and on Blu-ray Feb. 6.)
Compared\u00a0with movies, \u201cwhen you actually do a TV series it\u2019s a lot more like guerrilla warfare in that you have to rush and crank a show out. You get it shipped overseas. It comes back, you get it edited, you stick it on the air, and you\u2019re moving on to your next episode. And you get into kind of a rhythm,\u201d Timm said. \u201cWith the [animated] movies you get a little bit more time to finesse things, but they both scratch different itches. I\u2019d definitely do another series someday if the right project came along.\u201d
Timm says there is a misconception that working in animated universes means you\u2019re limited only by your imagination. He says even movies at WB/DC have budgets that limit the amount of backgrounds and locations designed\u00a0and the\u00a0characters created. But he does enjoy the freedom of being able to produce one-shot adventures that don\u2019t have the pressure of becoming franchise starters that the live-action DC Comics movies have.
\u201cYou can\u2019t do something that\u2019s that quirky and unique\u201d in live-action, Timm said referring to projects like \u201cBatman: Gotham by Gaslight. \u201cSo yeah, we definitely have a little more license, a little more freedom, to play around with different tones and different styles than they do in the live-action movies, for sure.\u201d
Last year, fans enjoyed a reunion of sorts with Timm and the \u201cBatman: The Animated Series\u201d universe when he co-produced \u201cBatman and Harley Quinn,\u201d an animated movie made in the \u201cBTAS\u201d style that brought back the voice talents of Kevin Conroy (Batman) and Loren Lester (Nightwing). The film served as a chance to take advantage of Harley Quinn\u2019s higher profile after Margot Robbie\u2019s performance as the character in WB/DC\u2019s \u201cSuicide Squad\u201d movie, and to give her a chance to shine once again in the animated world where she made her debut. As fun of a reconnection as it was for Timm, he doesn\u2019t plan on making visits to the \u201cBTAS\u201d world frequently.
\u201cI don\u2019t have a burning desire to go back and make more \u2018BTAS\u2019 style stuff. I mean, it was fun this one time. . . . I hate to have to compete with the memory of the work I did 25 years ago,\u201d Timm said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people . . . who revere \u2018Batman: The Animated Series,\u2019 and anything I do now, people are automatically going to compare it to not just the actual show but to their memory of that show. The way that show made them feel back 25 years ago when they were 13. So, it\u2019s really, really tough. . . . Whether I\u2019d go back and do it again, maybe. We\u2019ll see.\u201d
For now, Timm is enjoying having the entire DC Comics library at his disposal for inspiration for future adventures, noting that WB/DC\u2019s next animated feature could be based on a classic, such as \u201cBatman: Gotham by Gaslight,\u201d or it could be something new from DC\u2019s currently successful \u201cRebirth\u201d reboot on the company\u2019s comic publishing side.
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\u201cI\u2019m hoping [\u2018Gotham by Gaslight\u2019] does really well. There\u2019s several other Elseworlds-type titles that we would love to do if this movie is a success,\u201d Timm said. \u201cWe pull stuff from the current comics all the time. If they come up with an idea that we think will work for us in animation, we\u2019ll be happy to steal it.\u201d
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As far as some fans are concerned, Bruce Timm is the one true architect of the DC Animated Universe (DCAU), which has since been retroactively nicknamed \"The Timmeverse.\" This all started with the legendary cartoon\u00a0Batman: The Animated Series\u00a0(BTAS), which forever changed both comic book adaptations and animation as a medium.
BTAS\u00a0was just the beginning, as it laid the groundwork for equally beloved shows like\u00a0Superman: The Animated Series and\u00a0Static Shock.\u00a0The DCAU expanded into movies as well, some of which supplemented then-ongoing shows or even continued the Timmverse long after it formally closed with\u00a0Justice League Unlimited.
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\n 6 \n Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm (1993)\u00a0\u2014 The\u00a0Groundbreaking Box Office Bomb\n
With\u00a0BTAS\u00a0at the height of its popularity, it only made sense for the critically acclaimed series to make the cinematic jump.\u00a0The monumental Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm\u00a0isn't only Warner Bros. Animation's first theatrical movie, but the only DCAU movie shown in cinemas. The movie follows Batman on the trail of the deadly assassin known as Phantasm, while Bruce Wayne begins to think of a life beyond being the Caped Crusader.
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Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm\u00a0is one of the best Batman movies ever made, but it was a financial disaster.\u00a0At the last minute, Warner Bros. shifted the movie's video release to a theatrical one. Due to a lack of proper advertising and press screenings, no one\u00a0even noticed when\u00a0Mask Of Phantasm\u00a0made it to cinemas.\u00a0This box office failure\u00a0convinced Warner not to release any animated DC movie in theaters until 2016's\u00a0Batman: The Killing Joke.
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\n 5 \n Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998)\u00a0\u2014 The Batman Movie With The Better Mr. Freeze\n
Batman and Mr. Freeze's showdown\u00a0was set to be released theatrically in 1997, but this was scrapped following the disastrous reception of\u00a0Batman & Robin. Hoping to distance the animated Mr. Freeze from Arnold Schwarzenegger's so-bad-it's-good depiction, DC released\u00a0Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero\u00a0on video in 1998. The movie was well-received, and was even the highest rated Batman animated movie until\u00a0Batman: Under The Red Hood\u00a0came along.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Some years after\u00a0BTAS,\u00a0Mr. Freeze is on the verge of bringing his wife Nora back to life. All she needs is a blood and organ transplant from a donor. Problem is, whoever the donor is will die from the operation, and the only known compatible donor is Barbara Gordon. Though Nora is eventually saved, Mr. Freeze continued to be a thorn on Batman's side in\u00a0The New Batman Adventures\u00a0(TNBA)\u00a0before tragically dying in\u00a0Batman Beyond.
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\n 4 \n Batman Beyond: Return Of The Joker (2000)\u00a0\u2014 The Other Batman Movie That\u00a0Was Improved By The Director's Cut\n
The first and only\u00a0Batman Beyond\u00a0movie\u00a0finally solved the series' long-running mystery behind the Joker's disappearance, and it was a lot darker than expected. Serving as a bridge between two generations of Bat Families and cartoons,\u00a0Return Of The Joker\u00a0reveals that Batman's worst enemy died decades ago, and Bruce has been keeping it secret for years. Unfortunately, the Clown Prince of Crime found a way back from the grave.
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Return Of The Joker\u00a0is best known for having many of its darker scenes edited or cut due to the backlash against violence in children's media following the\u00a0massacre at Columbine High School. One of the most notorious reshoots\u00a0involved\u00a0the Joker's death, which was changed from a fatal gunshot to an off-screen electrocution. All of these were restored in the highly praised\u00a0The Original Uncut Version,\u00a0released on DVD in 2002 following a successful fan campaign.
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\n 3 \n Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman (2003)\u00a0\u2014 The Last Gasp Of Batman: The Animated Series\n
Despite being a part of the BTAS canon (specifically the\u00a0TNBA\u00a0era), Paul Dini and Bruce Timm were not involved in Mystery Of The Batwoman's creation. The most Dini did was write the silent animated shortChase Me, which was included as a bonus on Mystery Of The Batwoman's DVD. This short was actually better received than the movie, the latter of which got mixed reviews and reactions at best.
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Here, Bruce's love triangle turns deadly when one of the three new women in his life could be the\u00a0deadly Batwoman. Despite donning a bat motif, this Batwoman kills her targets\u2014 much to Batman's disdain. Due to how violent this Batwoman was, DC Comics actually forbade the filmmakers from using Kathy Kane as her true identity.\u00a0As a compromise, the writers\u00a0included Kathy Duquesne as one of the potential Batwomen.
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\n 2 \n Batman And Harley Quinn (2017)\u00a0\u2014 The Questionably Edgy Harley Quinn Movie\n
Basically an adult-oriented upgrade for\u00a0BTAS,\u00a0this movie has Batman forming an unlikely alliance with Harley Quinn to stop Poison Ivy from wiping out humanity.\u00a0Batman And Harley Quinn\u00a0was the first\u00a0Justice League Unlimited\u00a0follow-up to premiere after the series' end in 2006, and was regarded as a return to form for the DCAU. Up until then,\u00a0the DCAU was experimenting with various styles, like\u00a0Justice League: The New Frontier.\u00a0
That said, Batman, Nightwing and Harley's buddy-cop romp received mixed reviews due to\u00a0how needlessly edgy it felt. Harsher criticism equated it to juvenile Harley fanfiction for and by teenagers, where an abundance of swearing, sex, and bloody fights were mistaken for being mature. Though it takes place in the\u00a0BTAS\u00a0continuity, this movie is actually part of an alternate timeline where the events of\u00a0Return Of The Joker\u00a0were averted.
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\n 1 \n Justice League Vs. The Fatal Five (2019)\u00a0\u2014 The Long-Awaited Justice League Unlimited Sequel\n
Justice League Vs. The Fatal Five\u00a0is unique for being a direct follow-up to\u00a0Justice League Unlimited\u00a0instead of\u00a0BTAS,\u00a0as was tradition in the Timmverse movies for the longest time. Premiering more than a decade after\u00a0Unlimited\u00a0ended, this movie\u00a0is essentially\u00a0a feature length crossover episode from the sequel series that stars DC's Trinity and the Legion Of Super-Heroes.
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Here, the Fatal Five arrive from the 31st Century to wreak havoc. Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman team up with the time-displaced legionnaire\u00a0Star Boy to stop the futuristic villains, who have their sights set on the would-be Green Lantern Jessica Cruz for some reason. Aside from bringing back George Newbern (Superman), Kevin Conroy (Batman), and Susan Eisenberg (Wonder Woman), the movie is also known for giving Jessica Cruz her movie debut.
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