One of the most awaited of Warner Bros Animation series, given its creative pedigree – Bruce Timm, J. J. Abrams, and Matt Reeves – and its declared ambitions. “It’s everything that Bruce Timm wanted to do in the original series [the 1992 “Batman, the Animated Series”] but because it ran on a kid’s channel, he wasn’t able to do it. So this definitely skews older. It’s more of his complete vision,” said Giraldi. Very early footage at Annecy – the very first to be seen, currently unlit, suggested the series will be ultra-noir, with a series of character designs playing at Annecy to a pumping full orchestra score that suggested a brooding tone and a sense of the near psychotic in characters’ psychology.