{"id":12048,"date":"2007-12-10T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/japanese-studios-to-produce-batman-animation\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T17:02:00","slug":"japanese-studios-to-produce-batman-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/japanese-studios-to-produce-batman-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Studios to Produce Batman Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;2008 Movie Spectacular&#8221; special issue of Wizard magazine reports that Japan&#8217;s Studio 4&deg;C, Production I.G, and Madhouse are animating Batman: Gotham Knight, a collection of six shorts about the iconic DC Comics detective. The animated shorts will be scripted by Batman comic writers Brian Azzarello and Greg Rucka, A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson, Batman Begins screenwriter David S. Goyer, The Dark Knight movie producer Jordan Goldberg, and Batman: The Animated Series screenwriter Alan Burnett. Wizard Magazine reports that the shorts will be directed by American animator Bruce Timm. French fan site Catsuka <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catsuka.com\/news_detail.php?id=1197131139\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that anime director Satoshi Kon will helm one of the six productions. The project is scheduled to debut next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.toonzone.net\/showthread.php?p=2725746#post2725746\" target=\"_blank\">Toon Zone Forum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;2008 Movie Spectacular&#8221; special issue of Wizard magazine reports that Japan&#8217;s Studio 4&deg;C, Production I.G, and Madhouse are animating Batman: Gotham Knight, a collection of six shorts about the iconic DC Comics detective. The animated shorts will be scripted by Batman comic writers Brian Azzarello and Greg Rucka, A History of Violence screenwriter Josh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}