This Batman animated project sounds like an absolute no-brainer.
Earlier today at a joint presentation at the Annecy International Film Festival, DC Studios announced that they and Warner Bros. Animation are partnering on a series adaptation of DC's best-selling comic book series Absolute Batman.
Reinventing the Batman myth for a new generation of fans, Absolute Batman reimagines the Dark Knight as a working-class hero up against impossible odds on a mission to prove that even in an era of wealth, power and corruption, one good person can change the world.
The presentation was hosted by Warner Bros. Animation President Sam Register, with Peter Safran, DC Studios Co-Chairman and Co-CEO alongside James Gunn, joining him on the stage. According to the article by Deadline, Absolute Batman writer Scott Snyder will serve as executive producer and showrunner, while artist Nick Dragotta will be a producer on the new animated series.
"We could not be more excited about this. We are in very early stages of development on this with executive producer and writer Scott Snyder and the artist, Nick Dragotta," said Register. "It is a full CG show…It’s going to be a whole different tone and a whole different take again on Batman as well."
Absolute Batman has only been around since 2024, when it became the first title in DC's Absolute Universe imprint. It launched alongside Absolute Wonder Woman and Absolute Superman as one of three founding titles in the line. The series stars a 24-year-old blue-collar civil engineer named Bruce Wayne, who operates at night as the vigilante Batman, fighting crime with his self-designed equipment and armor. While doing so, he is stalked by an MI6 agent, Alfred Pennyworth. Unlike the mainstream DC continuity's Bruce Wayne, this version grew up without family wealth in Crime Alley, and many of his classic enemies, including Killer Croc, the Riddler, and the Penguin, are childhood friends, while the Joker is reimagined as a billionaire.
Absolute Batman #1 became the best-selling comic in the direct market for 2024, selling just under 400,000 copies across multiple printings. The series received an Eisner Award nomination for Best New Series and reached number five on the New York Times Best Seller list in September 2025. By the end of 2025, the title had sold close to three million copies and accounted for approximately 35 percent of the Absolute line's total sales for the year.
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