New Updates On “Green Lantern: The Animated Series, ” Young Justice,” Other Projects
New updates on Young Justice, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, the DC Universe Animated Original Movie line and the DC Nation programming block were announced over the weekend at the WonderCon 2012. WonderCon is one of the country’s top comics and pop culture conventions, and was held at Anaheim, California and the Anaheim Convention Center for the weekend of March 16 – 18, 2012. Friday night saw a special airing of the upcoming Superman Versus The Elite animated feature and special Q & A, while Saturday brought about DC Nation panel focusing on the DC Nation shorts and Young Justice and Green Lantern: The Animated Series.
During the Friday night screening of the DC Universe Animated Original Movie title Superman Versus The Elite at WonderCon, more details on the home video release are available here, 78 seconds from The Dark Knight Returns, Part One was shown after the main feature. The footage provided clean looks at many of the main characters, including Batman, Robin and the Mutant Leader. The footage was screened exclusively for the convention, but expect a trailer for The Dark Knight Returns, Part One, the Fall 2012 installment of the DC Universe Animated Original Movie line, to be released by summer 2012.
Continuing, new updates for Young Justice and Green Lantern: The Animated Series – the current cartoon titles airing on the DC Nation Saturday morning block on Cartoon Network – were revealed during the DC Nation panel discussion held on Saturday at WonderCon. The panel was attended by Young Justice producer Brandon Vietti, Young Justice producer/story editor Greg Weisman, Green Lantern: The Animated Series producer/story editor Jim Krieg, Green Lantern: The Animated Series producer Giancarlo Volpe, and DC Nation shorts producers Ben Jones and Lauren Faust.
During the panel, Jones announced that the current season of DC Nation shorts are currently underway. Upcoming shorts for this season include more Super Best Friends Forever, DC Worlds Funnest, Black Lightning, Superman of Tokyo, Amethyst, The Atom, Vibe, Doom Patrol and more. Ideas are currently being pitched for an upcoming wave of cartoons, with a second season of DC Nation shorts currently in the works.
A preview of upcoming Green Lantern: The Animated Series episodes was shown during the WonderCon panel. Clips from the preview included Skallox fighting Kilowog, Carol Ferris returning as a delirious Star Sapphire, Razer meeting Saint Walker, and Hal Jordan facing off against the Thanagarians. Krieg and Volpe also hinted that Sinestro is coming to Green Lantern: The Animated Series at some point, and that other human Green Lanterns may be appearing in the future.
Volpe also mentioned he has a plan to adapt the acclaimed “Blackest Night” DC Comics story-line, but it depends on if the show is a hit and he and his production crew have the chance to do more episodes.
A sizzle reel for Young Justice was shown during the panel, providing an overview of the first season and preview of season two – Young Justice: Invasion. The reel included clips of Blue Beetle, Lobo, Clayface, the Flying Graysons, Superboy in his new costume, and Lagoon Boy. Concerning the second season, Vietti says Young Justice: Invasion is a “big, long story” of aliens invading Earth. Nine different alien races from the DC Universe will pop up during the season, plus a visit to Rann. Vietti added that Blue Beetle will play a big role in the second season, and Lagoon Boy will appear, but the size of their roles is being kept under wraps. Jay Garrick will have a much larger role in the second season, Weisman states. 62 new characters will appear in the second season. Weisman called the second season a “20-chapter novel.” The second season of Young Justice is slated to start in April 2012, according to participants of the panel, though the network did not confirm any given dates.
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