With the animated series Batman: Caped Crusader premiering on Amazon Prime Video later this summer, we finally know who will lend their voices to Batman and his iconic villains. Per Vanity Fair, Hamish Linklater (Manhunt) is voicing Batman, Christina Ricci (Yellowjackets) is Catwoman, Jamie Chung (Dexter: New Blood) is Harley Quinn and Diedrich Bader (The Drew Carrey Show) is Harvey Dent.
Batman: Caped Crusader will take audiences back to Batman’s pulpy, film noir roots of the 1940s from showrunners Bruce Timm and James Tucker with J.J. Abrams and The Batman director Matt Reeves executive producing.
Vanity Fair revealed through extensive interviews with Timm, Tucker, Linklater and Chung what else fans can expect from the series. Unlike previous Batman series, most notably Batman: The Animated Series and Batman: Brave and the Bold which Timm and Tucker worked on respectively, Caped Crusader will take a closer look at Bruce Wayne’s persona and how he is the mask Gotham City sees, not Batman.
Additionally, the show’s depiction of Harley Quinn was already a departure from the norm since Harley becomes a villain on her own rather than being turned by The Joker, but Caped Crusader will see Harley as something of an anti-hero, attacking Gotham’s rich and powerful socialites with her own brand of justice. She will also be in a relationship with GCPD detective Renee Montoya.
As for Harvey Dent, unlike nearly every major depiction of him and his tragic turn to Two-Face, he will be a corrupt district attorney who makes sure Gotham’s elite, both criminal and not, stay rich and in power. Bader is no stranger to the world of DC as he voiced Batman in Tucker’s Brave and the Bold as well as in Harley Quinn along with several characters in Warner Bros. Animations DC films.
Batman: Caped Crusader will also feature the voice talents of Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting), Eric Morgan Stuart (Fallout 4), Michelle C. Bonilla (9-1-1: Lone Star), Krystal Joy Brown (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power), John DiMaggio (Futurama), Mckenna Grace (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire), Jason Watkins (The Crown), Paul Scheer (The League), Reid Scott (Veep), Gary Anthony Williams (Star Wars Resistance), Dan Donohue (For All Mankind), David Krumholtz (Oppenheimer), Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense) and Toby Stephens (Percy Jackson and the Olympians).
Batman: Caped Crusader will premiere on Prime on August 1st.
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