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DVD News: Warner Home Video announces Superman: Unbound and Justice League: Flashpoint

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  • Chuck_MelvilleChuck_Melville Posts: 3,003
    David_D said:

    Two of the three of the newly announced titles are set in pre-New 52 continuities.

    Justice League: War is based on the very first New52 arc in Justice League, the origin and battle with Darkseid's invasion force.

    They say Son Of Batman is based on Morrison's run on Batman & Robin; that would be New52 since Morrison wasn't writing that title before Flashpoint -- that was Peter Tomasi.

    And I have no idea what reality Assault On Arkham takes place in -- probably it's own, like an Elseworlds story.
  • David_DDavid_D Posts: 3,884
    edited July 2013
    @Chuck_Melville I think you are thinking of the wrong Batman & Robin. Pre-New 52 Morrison launched that title. Later Tomasi took over (and, I believe, continues to write the New 52 volume of that title). The New 52 title Morrison writes is Batman Inc. Though that, too, started pre-New 52 and continued its numbering into the New 52.

    But whose Batman & Robin it is doesn't really matter, as the story "Batman and Son", also Pre-New 52, was in the title Batman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_&_Son

    That is likely the one this is based on. Since the Morrison Batman & Robin was about Dick as Batman and Damian as Robin

    And as quoted earlier in the thread, the Arkham one seems to be based on the popular series of games (Arkham Asylum, Arkham City). So, yes, it takes place on its own. And is another one not beholden to the New 52
  • PaulPaul Posts: 169
    With the exception of New Frontier, Batman Year One and DKR, I don't know that many of these movies have hewn to the source stories beat by beat. Superman/Doomsday was VERY different from the comics, as was First Flight. Justice League Doom used the source material as a starting point. Personally, I'm okay with them taking a different route, after all, if I want the story to be the same as the comic, I'll just read the comic. I enjoy these movies, and I also wish that they'd branch out further, but I understand why they don't. They've done it before, and they didn't sell. At some point, you've gotta go with what sells.
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