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Bounding Into Comics is reporting that at New York Comic Con Warner Animation announced a project not tied to the Gunniverse. That should relieve fans concerned that the “Tomorrowverse”, staring from Superman: Man Of Tomorrow onward until the DC Gunniverse started, was over and marked the end of shows not tied to James Gunn’s DC Universe By James Gunn, shows like Creature Commandos. It may not take place in the Tomorrowverse, but the writer of the Superman starter will pen the first movie.

Yes, first. Two movies are planned for this adaptation of “Knightfall”, the story arc where Batman is crippled by Bane and must come up from injury to stop his successor from ruining the symbol of the Bat due to his failure to understand what that symbol means. I have not read most of the comics but I have read a couple and the novelization has been a Chapter By Chapter review (an example of a really long book to review that I actually enjoyed). This is where the author of the linked to article shows concerns. JB Augustine isn’t outright rejecting the adaptation but he does have some trepidation since it’s still modern Warner Brothers and they’ve made a bunch of missteps lately. This includes turning Watchmen (which apparently hasn’t been adapted enough in the past few years with a live-action movie, motion comic, direct-to-video adaptation of the “Tales Of The Black Freighter” in-universe comic, and most recently the about to be mentioned full on animated adaptation) into two movies. Crisis On Infinite Earths was also two movies, but from what little I’ve seen, and I do want to see the whole thing, isn’t actually an adaptation.

Personally I’d rather see three movies for “Knighfall”. Sound silly? Let’s address Augustine’s concerns and maybe point out a few of my own, as well as how I’d want to see this adaptation go.

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