Minnie Driver will voice a feminine model of the Penguin in Batman: Caped Crusader.
Batman: Caped Crusader is an upcoming DC animated sequence that’s premiering on Amazon Prime Video this coming August.
Per Selection, Driver has been solid as a gender-swapped model of the infamous Darkish Knight villain. She might be named Oswalda Cobblepot within the sequence, which is able to see Hamish Linklater voice Bruce Wayne/Batman.
βIf weβre fortunate sufficient to be invited onto the stage to inhabit these characters that exist already within the ether, we simply type of rise as much as meet them,β Driver stated of Oswalda at San Diego Comedian-Con this weekend. βAnd this was such a gorgeous retelling of that villain. It was joyful. And, I imply, sheβs dreadful.β
What’s Batman: Caped Crusader about?
βIt’s an all-new animated sequence and reimagining of the Batman mythology,β reads the logline. βUsing state-of-the-art animation strategies, this highly effective inventive partnership will as soon as once more reinvent the character and his iconic rogueβs gallery with refined storytelling, nuanced characters, and intense motion sequences, all set in a visually putting world.β
Batman: Caped Crusader comes from government producers Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Sequence), J.J. Abrams (Star Trek, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), and Matt Reeves (The Batman).
The voice solid additionally consists of Diedrich Bader, Christina Ricci, Mckenna Grace, Eric Morgan Stuart, Michelle C. Bonilla, Krystal Pleasure Brown, John DiMaggio, Paul Scheer, Reid Scott, Tom Kenny, Jason Watkins, Gary Anthony Williams, Dan Donohue, David Krumholtz, Haley Joel Osment, and Toby Stephens.
Ed Brubaker, James Tucker, Daniel Pipski, Rachel Rusch Wealthy, and Sam Register additionally function government producers on Batman: Caped Crusader, which was initially developed for Max earlier than Amazon MGM Studios picked it up for a two-season order in March 2023.
Batman: Caped Crusader premieres on Prime Video on August 1, 2024.
