The plan labored. Robin helped increase Batman’s reputation and launched a wave of minor sidekicks. Captain America palled round with Bucky. Inexperienced Arrow fought alongside Speedy. Sandy the Golden Boy joined Sandman. So widespread was the idea that DC began publishing tales about Superboy regardless of initially rejecting the thought earlier than Robin’s arrival and, in 1964, gathered them into their very own crew, the Teen Titans.
As enduring because it the thought was, many nonetheless thought teen sidekicks have been a bridge too far. Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham famously noticed one thing unseemly within the shut bond between Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson. Stan Lee hated the thought of sidekicks and thus killed Bucky off-panel when he resurrected Captain America in Avengers #4. And numerous smart-alecky satirists have taken goal on the concept, from Rick Veitch’s The Brat Pack to Garth Ennis’s Staff Titanic in The Boys.
Nonetheless, Batman has by no means been lengthy with out his Robin, not less than within the comics. The flicks have been one other story. Positive, Douglas Croft and Johnny Duncan portrayed the character in Forties serials, Burt Ward introduced his small-screen model to theaters in 1966’s Batman, and Chris O’Donnell tried to do a foul boy insurgent sidekick in Joel Schumacher’s motion pictures from the Nineteen Nineties, however newer takes have separated the Dynamic Duo. The insecure, over-eager Robin of Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go, and Teen Titans Go to the Films resents Batman’s shadow, as do the edgier Robins on the sequence Titans. The Darkish Knight Rises famously juked across the idea altogether by making Joseph Gordon Levitt‘s cop John Robin Blake.
It’s not too arduous to see the reluctance to present a correct Robin to Batmen performed by Christian Bale and Robert Pattinson, or a residing Robin to Ben Affleck‘s Snyderverse model. Heavy line work from Frank Miller and caricatures by Tim Sale can convincingly put a smiling teen subsequent to a brooding Batman, however few administrators can pull off the identical feat in dwell motion. Heck, even Tom Hardy’s Bane and Colin Farrell‘s Penguin appeared just a little odd of their respective movies.
The announcement for Dynamic Duo appears to have discovered a stunning resolution. The film can be directed by Arthur Mintz who, alongside along with his spouse Theresa Andersson, function Swaybox Animation. “Swaybox makes use of a know-how often called “Momo animation,” which is a cross between CGI animation, sensible components of stop-motion, and live-action real-time efficiency,” Deadline reviews. “The result’s long-form storytelling billed as visually breathtaking, dynamically expressive and extra human.”
As a substitute of operating from the goofier features of Robin, Dynamic Duo appears to be embracing them, utilizing them to inform a really totally different kind of Batman story from these we’ve seen to date. James Gunn and Peter Safran have been very upfront about the truth that all the things from their DC Studios tenure can be interconnected, even throughout media. So even when Batman isn’t a serious a part of Dynamic Duo, it should relate to the brand new period’s first correct Batman image, The Courageous and the Daring, directed by Andy Muschietti and that includes the Damien Wayne Robin.
