Superman: Red Son is the next iconic DC Comics story to get the animated feature treatment, and it’s coming soon!
Indeed, the 2003 comic miniseries from Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, and Killian Plunkett, which might just be the best known Elseworlds tale ever, is set land its animated movie in 2020. The original story imagines a world where baby Kal-El’s ship crashed in Ukraine instead of Kansas, and then Superman was raised as a Soviet superweapon. It features some of the sharpest Elseworlds design work ever done, adapting the entire Justice League into brutalist Soviet art styles. And it’s one of those rare Millar (Kick Ass, The Ultimates) books where the heart is bigger than the shock value of the story.
Superman: Red Son Trailer
The first full trailer for Superman: Red Son has arrived, via IGN, bringing the classic comic story of the commie Kryptonian to life in vibrant animated form!
Superman: Red Son Release Date
Superman: Red Son is slated to arrive in Digital and Blu-ray formats sometime in early 2020.
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Superman: Red Son Details
Red Son was kind of adapted by Supergirl during season 4 after introducing a different version of Supergirl who had been raised by Luthor in Kasnia. This movie is expected to hew closer to the source material.
The Red Son movie was announced by DC as the first film on the 2020 slate back in July at their San Diego Comic Con screening of DC Universe Movie Batman: Hush.
The second movie announced is a follow up to 2017’s pleasant surprise, Justice League Dark. This new one will be Justice League Dark: Apokalips War, implying that Earth’s magic users (Constantine, Zatanna, Swamp Thing, Deadman, Black Orchid, and of course Batman) will be heading to do battle with the evil New Gods of Apokalips. That is…not a typical pairing, which sounds like it’s going to make an interesting conflict.
The final movie on the announced docket is Superman: Man of Tomorrow. Few details were given for the last animated feature of 2020 for DC, but they did say that the film will be looking at Superman early in his career. They also pointed out that the previously announced DC animated shorts will be screening with these new movies. For more on the DC animated cinematic universe, the DC live action cinematic universe, the DC Animated Universe, the Arrowverse, or the rest of the Multiverse, stick with Den of Geek!
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