It was an uphill battle at the time because most fans had been conditioned to not trust any treatment of Batman that wasn’t super straight and basically humorless.Īs I guessed, unfortunately, the knee-jerk reaction from a very vocal fan base was to reject it sight unseen (luckily the internet wasn’t as all-consuming as it is now!). James: I went into the show feeling it was a chance to remind people that Batman didn’t have to always be dark and gritty, and show an earlier, lighter version of the character that existed prior to the ’80s. Plus, the chest emblem is markedly different.ĭan: Were you concerned how fans would react to a lighter Batman - something memorably addressed in Legends of the Dark Mite! I was told the show couldn’t mimic the tone of the feature film, which would be way too dark for kids’ TV, and also had to lend itself to a variety of toy treatments.Įarly development design. I later found out that Bruce Timm himself recommended me for the gig after passing on it himself. Years later, Sam Register, president of Warner Animation, though not at the time, approached me to do a new take on a Batman cartoon to tie into the second Nolan Batman film, The Dark Knight. I got to design the characters and pretty much produce that segment, design-wise.
#Batman brave and the bold characters series
James Tucker: Back on Batman: The Animated Series Season 4, we did an episode called Legends of the Dark Knight and I got to storyboard the section that showed the Dick Sprang ’50s Batman. Part 2 ( click here) is a list of James’ TOP 13 episodes.ĭan Greenfield: So, what’s the secret origin of Batman: The Brave and the Bold? How did you get involved? We’re celebrating with a two-part series – and in this first installment, James Tucker, one of the series’ producers (and a producer on the two Batman ’66 animated features), shows off some of his early character designs and answers a series of questions about the show’s secrets.
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14, 2008 - with the episode The Rise of the Blue Beetle! (I love how every episode ended in an exclamation point. Batman: The Brave and the Bold, the delightfully raucous cartoon tribute to the Silver and Bronze Ages, debuted 10 years ago – Nov. PLUS: Producer James Tucker lifts the veil on how the show was put together…