Gotham by gaslight movie review serial#

… Instant attraction because they’re both detective nerds.” -Expect Easter eggs for Batman, Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper, and old movies. … Certainly when he and Selina meet cute, they’re pulling the Sherlock Holmes on each other. So this was our chance to jump whole hog into that. There’s certainly a nod to the gadgets, but the greatest gadget is under the cowl.” -Timm: “We don’t get to show Batman using actual detection. He has a bat abacus! He’s the world’s greatest detective. On downgrading Batman’s gadgets due to the time period: Krieg said, “He’s using his bat brain.

It would be a challenge to fit it into one movie.” -There is a bat vehicle that is somewhat steampunk inspired. “In a weird way it’s sort of the opposite of this one in terms of scope and length. Timm said that the Superman story Red Son is “at the very top of our list if we get to make another” Elseworlds film. Some other notes from the panel: -Expect to see Hugo Strange in the film as the director of a “really, really horrible” version of Arkham Asylum. Everything is lit by that kind of horrible polluted fog.” The group also noted that Penny Dreadful was very popular among the crew when they were designing Gotham By Gaslight, and so they got to scratch that itch. … We wanted to incorporate elements of London from that time into Gotham City, like the peas-soup fog. But none of the victims are the real victims. … There are certain nods to the historical Jack the Ripper. “In the original story the murders take place in London and then he travels across the ocean to Gotham. “It’s tricky because it’s Jack the Ripper but the entire thing is transposed into Gotham City,” said Timm. Some other changes were made to the story as well when translating it to film. Those stark contrasts and shadows helped when keeping Jack the Ripper’s identity a secret as well. But the film definitely takes cues from Mignola. ” Indeed, the art is not a direct adaptation of Mignola’s style, because it would’ve simply been too expensive to fully bring that shadowy approach to life. Normally I think of Batman as his true self and Bruce Wayne the costume, but here. I think it made us think of him as a little more human. … I thought it definitely gave him a different aspect. “Mike drew Batman as if he has an old aviator’s helmet on. “That’s one of the things we keyed in on from the original comic,” said Timm. Not only does it adhere closer to Mignola’s original design, but the team felt that it also makes him more human and relatable. The decision to depict Batman’s cowl with open eye holes rather than the standard white lenses was discussed. Maybe two.” More from New York Comic Con: … There’s at least one sequence that makes you squirm.

Gotham by gaslight movie review serial#

It’s tastefully done, I guess, but it’s the story of this guy who is a serial killer who’s murdering women in our version of Whitechapel. “Knowing this was our first Batman story that was just as much a horror movie as it was a superhero tale, we knew that the Jack the Ripper story was tricky territory,” said Timm.

It will also feature more adult material than a typical DC animated film, and the producers even went so far as to advise the studio that there’s a chance that Gaslight could wind up with an R rating (it hasn’t been submitted to the ratings board yet).

In the movie they’re able to have more red herrings. Another challenge to adapting the story was the fact that in the original comic, there was really only one suspect as to who was actually Jack the Ripper was. He likened it to a Gilligan’s Island episode where Gilligan would get bonked on the head and the Professor was suddenly Sherlock Holmes, Mary Ann was suddenly Eliza Doolittle, and so on. Timm explained that while the original comic was fairly short, they’ve expanded the story to include more characters from Batman’s universe, including Harvey Dent and Selina Kyle. The film, which is coming in early 2018, was executive-produced by DC animation legend Bruce Timm, directed and produced by Sam Liu (Teen Titans: The Judas Contract), and written by Jim Krieg (Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox), all of whom were in attendance to chat about the project and show off a few clips.