Our buddy Jayme Lynn Blaschke conducts An Interview with Paul Dini for RevolutionSF. Jayme is co-writer of the Green Arrow Fan site (along with another buddy of ours, Scott McCullar, writer of Green Arrow Secret Files and Origins #1 and the unofficial Green Arrow Answer Man during Kevin Smith’s run on the title). Apparently, Jayme was privy to some inside info on the next Batman straight-to-video animated movie and let it slip during the interview.
Why would Jayme know about the movie pitch? Because in it, Batman teams up with Green Arrow! Oh, and he also teams up with Zatanna and Elongated Man.
Wait, what? What was that?
It was an awful lot of fun to work with Alan Burnett on the script, titled “Batman’s Super Team-Ups.” Alan wrote the Batman/Green Arrow team-up segment, I wrote another chapter in the ongoing Batman/Zatanna relationship, and we both jammed on the big Batman/Elongated Man finale.
Ahem.
ELONGATED MAN IS GOING TO BE IN AN ANIMATED MOVIE WITH BATMAN???????!!!!!!!
Gasp. Gasp. Pant. Gasp.
Okay, let me see if I have this clear. So far this year, Elongated Man has had a cameo in the first episode of JLU, he finally has his own action figure from DC Direct debuting in October, he already has a Justice League animated action figure on the way, which means he must be appearing in an episode sometime soon… and now he just may appear in a Batman animated movie, so long as Warner Brothers gives it the green light.
Wow. I could cry. Aside from his wife being raped and murdered and his unborn child dying with her, this has been the best year Ralph Dibny has ever had!
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