Animated series Batman: Caped Crusader is moving to Amazon after being axed at HBO Max for cost-cutting reasons, according to entertainment magazine The Hollywood Reporter.
Amazon has already handed out a two-season order for the series from Star Wars: The Force Awakens helmer J.J. Abrams, The Batman director Matt Reeves and Batman: The Animated Series producer Bruce Timm. The show was originally handed a straight-to-series order for HBO Max in 2021, but it became one of six animated projects dropped by Warner Bros. Discovery as part of its cost-cutting moves.
Batman: Caped Crusader is a re-imagination of Batman mythology based on the characters from DC and is said to harken back to Timm’s 1990s Batman: The Animated Series, which stands as a benchmark for the Dark Knight’s animated storytelling. Famed comic book writer Ed Brubaker has been roped in as one of the writers for the 10-episode first season.
The series is produced by Warner Bros. Animation, Bad Robot Productions and 6th & Idaho with Timm, Abrams, Reeves, Sam Register and Ed Brubaker serving as executive producers.
Batman: Caped Crusader’s move to Amazon comes after the studio revealed that it would develop more Lord of the Rings movies. The streamers also control the TV rights to the Lord of the Rings franchise.
Late last year, Warner Bros. Discovery hired James Gunn and Peter Safran as DC Bosses to bring order to its properties. Recently, the duo announced a 10-year plan to tell a unified story across film, TV, gaming and animation. However, certain projects will fall outside of that main track and they include Matt Reeves’s The Batman: Part II, HBO Max spinoff series The Penguin. Batman: Caped Crusader.
