Over the last few days, the talented fan animators are coming out in full force it seems.
We recently reported on a fan animator who took matters into their own hands and inserted the Spectacular Spider-Man into the Invincible season 2 finale, and now, we have a new teaser from Vehgeto, which showcases the potential for a Batman Beyond animated feature.
While brief, the teaser is leaving many fans questioning why WB Animation hasn't already greenlit a similar project.
Well, actually an animated Batman Beyond feature film has been pitched to WB, and somewhat recently.
It seems Patrick Harpin (My Dad the Bounty Hunter) and Production Designer/Producer Yuhki Demers (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) pitched an animated Batman Beyond movie to Warner Bros. at some point in 2023.
There might actually be a small modicum of hope for the project as Demers shared on X (formerly known as Twitter) that the studio heads changed their stance from 'No' to 'maybe', following his pitch.
Demers has shared that they continue to work on their pitch in the hopes of attracting the attention of DC Studios co-chair James Gunn.
The 1999 television series Batman Beyond featured futuristic animated superhero characters belonging to the DC Animated Universe (DCAU), and ran for three seasons.
Terry McGinnis is the new Batman in the narrative, which is set in a futuristic Gotham City in the year 2039. Terry, an adolescent delinquent, discovers the secret identity of Bruce Wayne, the first Batman.
Terry would go on to assume the role of Batman to battle crime in a technologically sophisticated and corrupt Gotham after a sequence of events leads to a reluctant Bruce Wayne teaching him how to become The Dark Knight for a new age.
Canceled in 2001, the series still remains fairly popular, to this day. Several more recent animated projects have contained callbacks to the series, keeping it alive in the memories of longtime fans.
In addition, a number of comic book series have also been centered around Batman Beyond, with multiple series set within the DCAU continuity and within the DC Comics proper, multiverse.