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Warner Bros. Animation and DC Comics made a major announcement earlier this week concerning the future of the DC Animated films line, and part of that future is a film based on Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Asylum. What does the future hold for the DC Animated brand? Well, Warner Bros. Animation has decided to mostly ditch the strategy of adapting beloved graphic novels (like say The Dark Knight Returns or Justice League: New Frontier), in favor of developing a new Universe throughout the course of several interconnecting films. It will consist of stories loosely based on the recent New 52 reboot, as well as some original story arcs. Think of it as being similar to Warner’s plans for the upcoming Batman Vs. Superman movie…or more accurately, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The first film under this new initiative is Justice League: War, which was released on DVD this past Tuesday. This particular movie is appropriately based loosely on the Justice League: Origin storyline from 2011’s New 52 launch. So you might be asking yourself, “how does this Arkham movie fall into the plan?” Well, it doesn’t. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. plans on producing three DC Animated movies per-year. Two of which will be a part of this newish continuity and the other won’t, meaning it’ll be an original or classic story that doesn’t fall within The New 52. This year, Batman: Assault on Arkham is that movie. Not much is know about the film at this point, other than JL: War director Jay Oliva will be leading the project and it’s storyline won’t be 100% faithful to that of Arkahm Asylum, if its IMDB page is any indication. Based on that, we can report characters from all three Arkham games will be making appearances and the voice actors from said games will be reprising their roles.

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