Uh-Oh, It’s The CW’s Gotham Knights Trailer
Few shows in recent memory have had more working against them than Gotham Knights on The CW. It’s from a company that’s slashing projects left and right, with plans to throw out all established multiverses (like this one) in favor of a unified DC, and it’s on a network that’s about to collapse. Oh yeah, and it has to share a name with that bomb video game that came out last year.
Of course, they share a name because they’re both based on the same concept: a Gotham where Batman is dead and the remaining members of the Bat Family have to hold things together. The game at least had the privilege of getting to use Batgirl, Nightwing and others. This one couldn’t clear those guys — too “important” for a late-era CW series. So nearly everybody in this Batman Minus Batman show is a brand new character you’ve never heard of, with the exception of Carrie Kelly, the Robin from Dark Knight Returns.
This cast of unknowns includes the main character, Bruce Wayne’s son, framed for his murder. Even though DC has several canon offspring to pick from, this is an off-brand RC Cola variant named “Turner Hayes” created just for the show. He and some other heroes (and maybe some children of villains who want to rebel against their dads) are after the truth of who framed…uh, Turner.
The trailer breaks no new ground, and will remind you of many other darkly lit, colorless, shot-in-Canada programs The CW has already aired, only worse. In short, it’s doomed, so don’t get attached. Gotham Knights premieres March 14.
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