Batman: Death In The Family will have a little horror according to director and producer Brandon Vietti (Young Justice and Batman: Under The Red Hood) during a DC FanDome panel this past Saturday. The choose your own adventure-style movie will let the audience decide Jason Todd’s fate and choose multiple branches of the story, which will lead to different scenarios. If you haven’t seen the official trailer, watch it below:
During the panel, Vietti spoke about the idea. “I think it was Bruce Timm who said, ‘You know, one of the most famous interactive audience choice moments was around the death of Robin [in] the Death in the Family stories. That’s where they looped me in,” explained Vietti. He also mentioned “branch storytelling”.
“It won’t play like a video game. There’s one big branch that’s 20 minutes. There are several others that are seven minutes long. There’s one that’s 30 seconds.”
There will be new characters along with expanding the roles of previous characters.
“You’ll see some that were in the original Under the Red Hood movie but just didn’t have a big role,” teased Vienetti. “One of the characters I was pretty excited about bringing in is Talia al Ghul. I wanted to give her a little more importance in the story. [We] also brought in Two-Face, who actually does have a pretty important role in Jason Todd’s backstory.”
Check out the opening credits for Batman: Death In The Family that was revealed during DC FanDome Explore The Multiverse.
A Little Background Story of the comic book Batman: Death In The Family
It was a 4-issue comic book storyline published by DC Comics in 1988. The story follows Jason Todd/Robin’s quest to be reunited with his birth mother after being relieved of his duties by Batman. During his journey, however, the Joker kidnaps and tortures him.
Dick Grayson’s replacement, Jason Todd, was an impulsive, foul-mouthed version of Grayson. Acting on impulse and was temperamental. He had grown very unpopular with readers. Being aware of this, editor Dennis O’Neil for 36 hours, allowed readers to call two numbers to cast a ballot to on whether Todd should live or not.
Upon its publication, A Death In The Family attracted mass media attention. Though some were critical, it became an iconic storyline in Batman’s comic book history. Now Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment are set to bring it back again in an interactive, animated feature film on Blu-ray.
How cool would it be to be able to decide the fate of the characters with the click of a button. Just be sure to choose…wisely. Batman: Death in the Family arrives on Blu-Ray and Digital Tuesday, Oct. 13. You can pre-order on Amazon here.
DC FanDome: Explore The Multiverse was the second part to the DC Virtual fan experience.
Featured Image: Warner Bros. / DC
Source: DC Comics
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