[ANIMACIÓN] Nueva serie animada de DC: "The Brave And The Bold"

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Ben Jones, Brandon Vietti, and Michael Chang Interview – BATMAN: Brave and the Bold Animation Directors


Written by Jonah

At Comic Con this past week, I had the chance to talk with upcoming animated series BATMAN : THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD Animation Directors: Ben Jones, Brandon Vietti, and Michael Chang. The buzz word for the show is fun. Even if, according to Michael Chang, some internet fanboys have already dismissed the show as being “for babies!”

I got confirmation on several characters appearing this season, including GREEN LANTERNS TOMAR-RE and KILOWOG, RED TORNADO, and DR. FATE. Brandon, Ben, Michael, and Collider’s own Nico – who seems intent on interrupting ALL of my interviews—also had plenty to say about their favorite BATMAN stories, fighting over who gets to handle which characters, and how no one get’s to play with the Demon’s head.
Enjoy the interview…


Jonah: First, I’m a huge fan of the original animated series, I’m working on liking the new series. Sell me on THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD.

Ben Jones: It’s different from the original.

Jonah: Obviously.
Ben Jones: But, I think if you look at the history of the BATMAN in comic books, we’re just taking a sort of different decade than the Animated (BATMAN TAS) did. We’re just sort of stopping at the new look from the seventies and focusing on all the untouched stuff as well like the Dick Sprang stuff.

Michael Chang: That’s a tricky question you ask too because some fans are going to have to want to be open to a new BATMAN. Cause I’m right there with you, I think. I’m in animation because of BTAS (BATMAN TAS), and I was lucky enough to get to work with Bruce (Timm) on THE BATMAN/SUPERMAN ADVENTURES, then went on to THE BATMAN, and now this one. And I think, myself, when I heard we were doing a third round on the BATMAN I was like, “How?”

Jonah: How do you reinvent him AGAIN?

Michael Chang: Exactly. But I think, even as a fan myself, and just being lucky enough to work on it -- I think I was able see what Michael and Sam had been cooking up, and like what Ben said about pulling from a different decade of influence for the BATMAN, it just clicked right away. There’re the fun aspects of it. It still has drama. I know we’ve been throwing the word “fun” around a lot.

Jonah: Terrible word! Don’t use it ever again. We fans don’t want BATMAN to be fun!

Michael Chang: No, that’s true. From what I’ve been reading online, some fans are like, “Fun?!? It’s gonna be for babies!” But you know, no. It’s fun but not too funny, or real silly. It’s definitely got a lot of dramatic punch to it still despite the fun aspects of it. It’s gonna be good for a really broad range from new kids that really don’t know about BATMAN to the older fans who grew up with BTAS, this is kind of a refreshing new take on it. Should be good for everybody.

Jonah: Did any of you come to this as comic book fans originally? Were any of you thinking, “Oh my god, BATMAN and PLASTICMAN have to hang out”?

Ben Jones: I think we all grew up reading comics, and I think all of us thought that working on something called “THE BATMAN” sounded really awesome.

Jonah: Did you all play nice with each other?

Michael Chang: Well, the thing is, we all sort of alternate episodes. So really all we have to do as far as working with each other is, if Gentleman Ghost is in an episode I’ll have to find out how his powers work so that it’ll be consistent throughout.
Ben Jones: there’s only one episode that’s a two parter that Michael has the first part of. There’s not a lot of heavy continuity.
Michael Chang: For the most part, they’re very stand alone episodes.
Ben Jones: At the same time, we’re trying to establish the whole show as this “world.” So, we’ll often see each other’s storyboards to see what the other director’s up to stylistically or see what he’s doing with a particular character so that we don’t do anything redundant and so that it will all be consistent.

Jonah: So you are or you aren’t stealing from each other?

Ben Jones: We all steal from all sorts of places. Not just each other, that would get old. So we steal from all sorts of places.

Jonah: Are you finished with all 26 episodes?

Michael Chang: Not yet. We’re about halfway through.

Jonah: So about 13 episodes in? So, what’s you favorite episode so far, then?

Michael Chang: They’re all great!

Jonah: C’mon. That’s SUCH a PC answer.

Michael Chang: It so is.
Ben Jones: Well, one thing is, I like show 10, but I can’t talk about it.
Michael Chang: Well, actually (Michael) Jelenic dropped that one. It’s the Green Lantern Corps episode. So for ME that was pretty… pretty awesome!

Jonah: And it’s 60s-70s Green Lantern Corps? So you’ve got…?

Ben Jones: It’s like how with the guest stars we’ve got the new BLUE BEETLE, but the silver age GREEN ARROW. It’s a pretty wide swath of Green Lantern Corps. There’s some of the new ones… some of the old ones…

Jonah: Do we get Kyle (Rayner) or do we get Hal (Jordan)?

Ben Jones: I don’t think I can answer that. I can’t talk about any of the Earth Green Lanterns, but I can maybe spill… (hijos de... )

Jonah: Do we get Kilowog and Tomar-Re?

Ben Jones: Yes and yes. (iiuujjuuu )

Jonah: Yes and Yes?

Ben Jones: Yeah. How about that?

Jonah: I’ll take it.

At this point publicist James Finch worries that we might be learning all the secrets of the BATCAVE, and so he interrupts.


James Finch: What are we spilling?

Jonah: He’s telling me about aliens.

Ben Jones: It’s all about Green Lanterns.

James Finch: Okay.

Jonah: Actually, he’s telling the plot of every episode. I’m getting animatics and storyboards. I’m not even gonna watch the show.

Ben Jones: I gave him the FTP site and the password…

James Finch: No animatics.

Ben Jones: … keys to the ranch…

Jonah: Anything else I need to know other than it’s about BATMAN, so as a fan I’m obviously gonna watch the show?

Ben Jones: Well, tell your friends!

Jonah: I’ll give you a very favorable write up. So when does the show air?

Michael Chang: I think November 14th?

James Finch: It’s the first week of November. We don’t have an exact date or time. And it’s CARTOON NETWORK in the fall.

Jonah: It IS CARTOON NETWORK? I thought it was supposed to be CW?

James Finch: It is CARTOON NETWORK both domestic and international.

Jonah: It IS CARTOON NETWORK? I thought it was supposed to be CW?




Brandon Vietti: It is CARTOON NETWORK both domestic and international.

Nico: Is there anyone you didn’t get to team him up with in the first twenty-six episodes that you want to in the future?
Ben Jones: Well, me personally, probably, like…..
Michael Chang: DR. FATE?
Ben Jones: We did DR. FATE.
Jonah: Ah, so you (Ben) wanted DR. FATE?
Michael Chang: Well, yeah.
Ben Jones: You should’ve told me.
Jonah: So did you guys arm wrestle for who got to do which episode? Or did you try to just “out geek” each other? Well this element is from this issue from this date?
Ben Jones: No, it just got assigned to us. And he got the RED TORNADO episode that I wanted. It was just based on scheduling. And there’s nothing you can do about it. But RED TORNADO shows up later, so I got him.
Michael Chang: Dr. Fate doesn’t…
Jonah: How pleased were you with Andrea’s casting? Any people in particular that you really enjoyed? Anyone, that made you think, “That is so dead on! That is exactly what that character should sound like.”?
Ben Jones: Not really I mean we had…
Brandon Vietti: R. Lee Ermey.
Ben Jones: R. Lee Ermey, and that was amazing. We got to hear his voice and then we got to hear him talk about FULL METAL JACKET in his downtime.
Michael Chang: It’s just weird that he’s real.
Ben Jones: I know!
Jonah: He’s not real. He’s a puppet, right?
Laughter.
Jonah: Are there any other animated shows you guys watch?
Ben Jones: I think VENTURE BROTHERS is the best show on TV, animated or not.
Jonah: Wow, strong words. You?
Michael Chang: GOSSIP GIRL? No. I worked on AVATAR, so I enjoy that show.
Brandon Vietti: Animated? Spiderman.
Jonah: Yeah, I was NOT sold on the first few episodes, but by the end I really dug it. Anything on the horizon?
Ben Jones: No.
Jonah: Nothing else you do, this show is just your entire lives?
Ben Jones: Pretty much. Any time you would spend looking for another job, you send working on this one.
Nico: What was your favorite comic book arc in Batman?
Ben Jones: Can I go a little modern? There’s a miniseries about Arkham Asylum by Dan Slott and Ryan Sook. That was awesome.
Nico: That WAS cool.
Ben Jones: And the guy came up with something like a half dozen new BATMAN villains which is practically impossible. And they were pretty good. I didn’t believe it was possible and he did it. That’s my choice.
Brandon Vietti: DARK KNIGHT got me into it.
Jonah: I think that book got most of us into BATMAN.
Michael Chang: Me too. And right around that time Jim Parr’s run on DETECTIVE COMICS. I was following that.
Jonah: Is there a character you didn’t get that you wanted? Ben clearly wanted RED TORNADO and Michael clearly wanted DR. FATE. Were you upset you didn’t get GORILLA GRODD?
Brandon Vietti: One of us that I don’t think any of us gets to work with, ‘cause I don’t think we’ve got the rights to it is RA’S AL GHUL. I’d love to get a story with that.
Ben Jones: I actually think that we could, it just all depends on what James (Tucker) wants to do really.
Michael Chang: It’s all up to James (Tucker).
Ben Jones: You didn’t get to use him in THE BATMAN either, did you?
Michael Chang: No. Cause of the movie. A lot of times if there’s a character that’s already going on in the movie. Then we cannot touch it.
Jonah: Is THE BATMAN completely over now?
Michael Chang: Yeah. It did well though, five seasons.
Jonah: And just when it started to be fun.
Michael Chang: Glad you liked it.
Jonah: I did. I did NOT like the first season at all. I did not like it. I’m not gonna lie. I’m not gonna pretend otherwise.
Michael Chang: Sure.
Jonah: But the last few seasons were good.
Michael Chang: It did get progressively better.
Jonah: I’m sure a lot of that was just me though. It was a shock to my idea of BATMAN. Who is this guy? He’s not Kevin Conroy!?! And WHY does the Joker have dreadlocks??? And that was the problem at first, but I still have the last few seasons on my Tivo.
Michael Chang: Cool.
Jonah: Well, thanks a lot you guys. Looking forward to the show.
Ben Jones: Best of luck to you.


Sounds, dare I say it? FUN! Once again we have a new BATMAN to look forward to, even if he comes without the Demon’s Head…


fuente: http://www.collider.com/entertainmen...id/8700/tcid/1

EmaHalJordan

Contame, contame... qué representa?

a ver, a ver, compadre:
1- No sé qué tiene que ver eso de "Si superman no hubiera existido, probablemente Batman tampoco". Yo dije que FINALMENTE BATMAN DESBANCÓ A SUPERMAN COMO ÍCONO MAYOR DE DC. Incluso al decir esto, estoy diciendo que Superman lo fue desde su creación hasta la fecha, no salten como nenas a defender a Supes.
2- No me quiero hacer el cool. SOY cool.
3- Batman en los 80 estaba en Dark Knight Returns, Year One, The Killing Joke y Arkham Asylum. Superman estaba en...
Ah, sí! en Man Of Steel de Byrne (WOW!)
4- Batman siempre resultó más interesante para el gran público, por eso las pelis de Burton dispararon una serie de dibujos animados y sólo cuando vieron que ésta daba resultado, se animaron con Superman y después con JLU.
5- Smallville es una serie sobre Clark Kent. Punto. De Superman en los últimos años sacaron una peli que fue un bodrio incomible. De Batman sacaron dos pelis de muy buenas para arriba (siendo moderado), por lo que hoy en este topic se está hablando sobre un nuevo cartoon llamado Batman: The Brave and The Bold, no Superman y sus Superamiguitos, o algo así. Mirá ese cartel enorme que postearon unas páginas más atrás. Quién está ahí? A qué personaje está usando DC/Warner para hacer guita? Superman o Batman?

Ante todo lo expuesto, creo que no es tan difícil entender lo que quise decir cuando dije que FINALMENTE BATMAN DESBANCA A SUPERMAN COMO ÍCONO MAYOR DE DC, no?

Ýo creo que desde hace mucho tiempo Batman desbancó a Superman como numero uno...

A ver como me explico... Batman es el Superheroe que mas vende, y el por que de esto ya fue dicho en varias ocaciones.

Superman, por otro lado, es el numero uno entre los superheroes y el mundo de los comics (porque en ese mundo existe). Tb lo es entre muchos de nosotros tb obviamente (me incluyo).

Pero si existiesen ambos super heroes en realidad, honestamente: Quien sería el número uno?

Superman es un simbolo de Paz, justicia. Como muchas veces se dijo, es un semi Dios, no solo por sus poderes sino por su majestuosidad. Ningún otro Superheroe podría tener los poderes de Clark y poder manejarse con la sabiduria y conciencia que él lo hace.

Y con esto no desmerezco a Batman, de hecho me encanta tb.

Si, ya se, me fui de tema un poco

Superman es un líder simbólico, Batman nunca va a poder serlo.

Exacto.

1- En todo caso vos no vengás como loca a atacar a Superman. Superman es y será el ícono nº 1 no sólo de DC, sino del cómic de superhéroes, siempre, TE GUSTE O NO, ya que es el mayor símbolo en el mundo de los superhéroes. Batman me encanta, no te confundas, pero lo de arriba es un hecho, y no me parece que atente contra la grandeza de Batman, sé que Bats es el que más vende, pero le debe a Superman lo que todos los superhéroes desde 1938.
2- Ni idea si sos cool, pero si lo sos, no lo digás (que te resta coolness). Pero si querés ser cool, todo bien, I really don´t care...
3- Cuando dije dónde estaba Batman en los ´80, obviamente me refería a cine y tv, en los comics fue su mejor época, y eso pocos lo discuten. Superman no sólo estaba en Man Of Steel, también en Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, For the Man Who Has Everything, Superman (serie regular), etc..
4- No sé quién es más interesante para el gran público, probablemente sea Batman, probablemente Superman, es discutible. Sí sé, te repito, que Batman vende más hoy por hoy. Y si se animaron con Superman TAS luego de Batman TAS... Bueno, algo similar le pasó a Batman the movie (1989), luego de que se animaran con Superman the movie (1978), ya que el proyecto para una peli de Bats empezó... En 1979.
5- No es una "serie sobre Clark y punto", compadre. Te repito, es el viaje de Clark para ser Superman, y va por su 8ª temporada. Para vos es un bodrio SR, a mi me encanta. Así como también disfruto de BB y TDK. Y el que me guste Superman no me impide que me guste Batman, así como que me guste DC no me impide que disfrute mucho de Marvel. Y DC va a seguir usando a Superman para hacer guita (tema que me importa un reverendo Frank Cho...), o no te dice nada Superman/Doomsday, Legion of Superheroes, JLTNF??...
Superman es el ícono mayor no sólo de DC, sino del comic de superhéroes, te lo repito, y eso no se mide por ventas, tal vez ahora me entiendas.

Creo que Smallville es la historia de Clark Kent.... no va a aparecer Superman... ni va a ser Superman, ni nada. Y no, no es Superman, será en otra serie, comic, peli..etc.. acá no va a ser. Ya lo sabemos por los productores, cuestiones legales y demás. Para más info leer las chotosientas páginas del thread de Smallville en el Psico.

Y... tal vez no se mida al 100% por ventas, pero... un altisimo porcentage, onda... 95% se maneja por ahí el medidor de popularidad de los personajes.

Si Batman vende mejor hace tiempo que Superman, será porque Batman es mas popular. Porsupuesto que le puede tocar una tanda de dibujantes/escritores chotos a Sups... pero una tanda... no miles y miles de tandas.

Yo por lo general hablo de lo que veo y sé, y hasta hace unos años opinaba igual que Last Son, para mi pesar, Superman era el ícono mas reconocido de Dc Comics y a nivel Superheroico. Pero desde la salida de Batman Begins las cosas cambiaron mucho. Y a nivel icono donde mejor se puede ver eso, es en la gente que no es seguidora de los comics, la gente común, que recuerda más a un personaje como Batman, oscuro, vestido de murcielago, que da miedo pero hace el bien.... que a un tipo vestido de celeste con calzoncillos rojos. (y no lo digo riendome, es sentido común... uno recuerda más lo que más le impresiona).

Salgan a hacer preguntas en la calle onda "un superheroe?" y me juego lo que sea que la mayoria le van a decir "Batman".... lo que sea..

Son ciclos, Batman se volvió a instaurar en la cultura popular con mucha más fuerza que nunca, pero hace 4 años la gran movida era Spiderman, sobre todo con los chicos.
Yo realmente soy un fanático casi religioso de Superman, veo la verdad de las cosas, hoy en día no puede competir con Batman en lo relacionado con ventas y parece ser, interés de los jóvenes.
Pero Superman no es sólo un personaje, es el ícono del comienzo de una era, una industria, una revolución en materia narrativa y de aventuras. Es un símbolo moral, de pureza. Estoy hablando más allá de lo que el ojo ve a simple vista.
El gran tema acá es que, a los que nos gusta Superman, también nos gusta Batman sin ningún problema, pero a los grandes fans del murciélago muchas veces se les hace imposible soportar al Hombre de Acero.

Che, a discutir si es mejor el puto murciélago o el puto kriptoniano a otro lado!



Entonces, estará Ra's?

Ra´s?.... quien es Ra´s?

vamo a pegarla supeeeeermaaaaaaaaannnncito


na, corto con el desvirtue, si habren un tema para esto, seguimos charlando sobre la popularidad, iconicidad y demas de ambos personajes, sinó va a caer Flush y nos va a coé parados.