At their San Diego Comic Con screening of the next DC Universe Movie, Batman: Hush, DC announced their animated slate for 2020, and they led with a great one.
Superman: Red Son is the first movie on the slate for 2020. It’s based on the 2003 comic from Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, and Killian Plunkett, and it’s maybe the best known Elseworlds tale ever. The book 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.
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 second movie they 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.
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The final movie announced at the screening 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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