DC FILMS UNIVERSE 19’
B A T M A N 8 0 T H A N N I V E R S A R Y E D I T I O N
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Batman: Knightfall 9 March, 2019
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Birds of Prey 15 June, 2019
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Gotham City Sirens 21 September, 2019
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Nightwing 14 December, 2019
D C C O M I C S '
B A T M A N
K N I G H T F A L L
D I R E C T E D B Y
Matt Reeves
P L O T S Y N O P S I S
After crippling the Police Commissioner’s daughter, The Joker is captured and escorted back to Arkham Asylum by Batman. Meanwhile, Wayne Enterprises’ cryogenicist Victor Fries has his stasis operation shut down, killing his wife snd sending him down a dark path of revenge .
Ben Affleck … Bruce Wayne / Batman
Woody Harrelson … Victor Fries / Mr. Zero
J.K. Simmons … James Gordon
Glendoline Christie … Ellen Yindel
Ray Liotta … Ferris Boyle
Keri Russell ... Nora Fries
Jeremy Irons … Alfred Pennyworth
Dakota Johnson … Barbara Gordon
Jared Leto … The Joker
Cameo: Finn Wittrock … Jason Todd (uncredited)
C H A R A C T E R B I O
BRUCE WAYNE // BATMAN
After witnessing the death of his parents, Bruce Wayne trained extensively to achieve mental and physical perfection, mastering martial arts, detective skills, and criminal psychology in order to protect Gotham City.
VICTOR FRIES // MR. ZERO
Formerly a scientist working in cryogenics, he dedicated his life to finding a cure for his wife's terminal illness. Following a horrible lab accident, he became dependent on sub-zero temperatures to survive and began using his experimental inventions to commit crimes in order to fund his research.
JAMES GORDON
Commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department, James Gordon is one of Batman's greatest allies. He is a controversial political figure in Gotham City because of his willingness to work alongside the vigilante.
ELLEN YINDEL
Ellen Yindel is the G.CP.D's most promising Police Captain. She's poised to succeed Gordon as Commissioner following his retirement, despite her strong opposition to Caped Crusdaer’s vigilantism.
FERRIS BOYLE
Ferris Boyle is a Wayne Enterprises’ employee responsible for the death of Victor Fries wife, Nora. He shut down Victor’s lab which is keeping her in a cryogenic state.
NORA FRIES
The wife of scientist Victor Fries, Nora was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Victor has her kept in cryogenic state while he searches for a cure, however when his lab is shut down her life support is taken off.
ALFRED PENNYWORTH
Alfred Pennyworth is Bruce Wayne's trusted butler. Having worked for Thomas and Martha Wayne before they were deaths, he raised Bruce from an early age.
BARBARA GORDON
The daughter of Gotham City's Police Commissioner, Barbara Gordon follows Batman’s cases and is a detective in her own right. She maintains a civilian identity as a librarian.
THE JOKER
The Joker is Batman's arch-nemesis. An agent of chaos known for his malicious plots, wacky gadgets and insidious smile.
JASON TODD
Formerly a partner of The Dark Knight, Jason Todd was brutally murdered by the Joker. His death remains Batman’s greatest failure.
T H E M E S
Batman: Knightfall explores the theme of loss and how our main characters (Bruce Wayne, Victor Fries and James Gordon) deal with it in different ways.
Bruce Wayne is forever trying to come to terms with the loss of his parents, which results in his transformation into Batman. He must also deal with his failings as the CEO of his parents company Wayne Enterprises and his failings as mentor to Dick Grayson but moreover to Jason Todd, the former Boy Wonder who was murdered at the hands of The Joker and Harley Quinn.
Victor Fries struggles to deal with the loss of his wife Nora Fries. He blames Wayne Enterprises for her death, and Ferris Boyle in particular for turning off her life support. When a lab accident makes him dependent on sub-zero temperates he begins to lose touch with humanity. Driven only by revenge, he turns into a cold, sadistic psychopath.
Police Commissioner James Gordon must come to terms with the abuse his daughter suffered at the hands of The Joker which has left her paralysed from the waist down and in a comatose state. Despite the ordeal, Gordon's sanity remains intact and he insists that The Joker still be brought in by the book in order to show him and the people of Gotham that law still way works.
P O T E N T I A L S E Q U E L S
Batman: Knighthood (2020)
Batman faces a new foe who uses The Joker's old alias, the Red Hood.
Batman: Knights End (2021)
A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 50-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl.
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