TV Bits: ‘Bates Motel’, ‘Justified’, ‘Girls’, ‘Terra Nova’, ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘Fringe’, ‘It’s Always Sunny’, Baz Luhrmann, Tina Fey, Christopher Guest

Posted on Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 by Angie Han

Today we have a nice mix of shows that don’t even exist yet, shows that have already been cancelled, and everything in between. After the jump:

• Baz Luhrmann is making his first foray into television
• Tina Fey plans tostick to television after 30 Rock ends
• Carlton Cuse brings Richard Alpert to the Bates Motel
• Christopher Guest adds old friends to his HBO comedy
• Revolution star David Meunier will return to Justified
• Rita Wilson will not go naked on Girls, if you were curious
• Here’s what would’ve happened on Terra Nova Season 2
• AMC offhandedly reveals The Walking Dead renewal
• Fringe‘s final season gets an intense full-length trailer
• See Haley Joel Osment in It’s Always Sunny ad

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Peter Weller to Voice Batman in ‘The Dark Knight Returns’ Direct to DVD Animation

Posted on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 by Russ Fischer

Frank Miller, Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley helped change the comic book landscape when the first issue of their four-issue Batman reinvention The Dark Knight Returns was released in 1986. Those four issues have influenced film and television as well as comics; Christopher Nolan’s three Batman films are shaped to a great degree by the grim, violent vision of Batman put forth by Miller & Co.

The Dark Knight Returns has never been directly adapted to film or television, however, until now. Warner Bros. animation label DC Comics Premiere Movies is creating a two-part adaptation of the four-issue series. The good part is: Peter Weller (RoboCop) has been hired to voice Bruce Wayne and Batman. Read More »

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