Warner Bros. latest DC animated movie Justice League: War arrives on shelves today, and much like the New 52-launching Justice League: Origin story arc from which it is based, it seems the direct-to-video feature will launch a shared continuity for the line of DC Universe Animated Original Movies.
This will definitely be the first salvo in doing new movies that are in continuity with each other,” James Tucker, Warner’s DC animation supervising producer, tells ComicBookResources. “Our next movie’s going to be Son of Batman, and that Batman will be the same Batman that you see in Justice League: War. Basically, we’ll have two concurrent series of Justice League movies and Batman movies, and they’ll be in continuity with each other. So it’s kind of world-building.
Tucker went on to review that the plan going forward is to release two “in-continuity” movies a year and one stand-alone feature (this year’s third offering is Batman: Assault on Arkham, set in the Arkham videogame universe), although the in-continuity titles won’t be limited to the New 52, but rather adapted to fit into the framework of the new shared universe.
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Justice League: War
is directed by Jay Oliva (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox) and is set to feature a voice cast that includes Jason O’Mara (Life on Mars) as Batman, Alan Tudyk (Firefly) as Superman, Michelle Monaghan (Source Code) as Wonder Woman, Justin Kirk (Weeds) as Green Lantern, Christopher Gorham (Covert Affairs) as The Flash, Shemar Moore (Criminal Minds) as Cyborg, Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings) as Shazam, Steve Blum (Young Justice) as Darkseid, Bruce Thomas (Birds of Prey) as Desaad and Rocky Carroll (NCIS) as Silas Stone.
Originally published February 4, 2014. Updated April 11, 2018.
