Burkion
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I'll just clarify this right here because there seems to be some kind of bizarre confusion going on born of general assholery and false presumptions.
The Dark Knight Returns was a graphic novel created back in the late 80s that signified a turn towards how Batman would generally be presented in the future, with a grimmer more mature tone and all that fun stuff. It was about an old man Bruce Wayne coming out of retirement to save Gotham once more.
Batman the Animated Series, which was largely its own creature but took cues from the general mythology, had an anthology episode of sorts where we got to see three different versions of Batman, as told by kids.
One of those was a quick look at The Dark Knight Returns, using the same character style as the original comic.
This new movie has nothing to do with the Animated Series, but does look like what they did-because it also uses the same character style as the original comic.
That's why there's some confusion from those who do not know what the comic was or that it existed, but do know about that Animated Series clip. They're basically both adaptations of the same work, without having anything to do with the other.
The confusion I think really comes from the fact that a fair number of us know what the score is, with all these comics and cartoons and what not, and others are just trying to gleam what information they can from our posts which don't really explain things all that well to people who don't know what the ****.
And Batman Beyond already had B:TAS animation considering it was what replaced B:TAS. That was just a stupid thing to say whoever said it.