New Trailer for Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles
Machinima and Warner Bros. Animation have released a new trailer for the upcoming animated web series for Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles. The series is produced and co-written by DC and animation luminary in Bruce Timm. Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles serves as the prelude to the upcoming animated movie, Justice League: Gods and Monsters. While Timm has worked on some DC animated shorts, this is his first major project since wrapping up the Green Lantern animated series and also The Dark Knight Returns animated movie. The new trailer is available below.
Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles will be a three-part web series that will introduce the alternate versions of this DC Elseworlds type of universe. It features different versions of the DC Comics’ Trinity: Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman than people might expect. In this alternative history, Zod is the father of Superman. Batman is no longer Bruce Wayne, but Kirk Langstrom. Not only that, he is a more of a vampiric Man-Bat in this continuity. Wonder Woman here is the daughter of Ares, the God of War. In other words, these are darker, edgier and more violent iterations of the iconic heroes, making the Trinity more like antiheroes. Ultimately after these heroes form an alliance, one wonders if they will decide to help save the world or claim it for themselves.
This an interesting way to explore various aspects of iconic heroes in essentially an alternate or “Elseworlds” universe. Obviously, these are not the heroes fans generally know and love, they are something different. These aspects have been explored before with the Justice Lords storyline in the Justice League animated TV series, or The Crime Syndicate from Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. However, it seems Timm, co-writer Alan Burnett and director Sam Liu are exploring those ideas in a much deeper way with this transmedia project.
Justice League: Gods and Monsters: Chronicles premieres on June 8 on Machinima’s YouTube channel. The Justice League: Gods and Monsters feature will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 28. There will also be a second season of the web shorts later on and a comic book miniseries from DC Comics.
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