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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2965047" data-attributes="member: 3649">Earlier this week, EW mentioned that DC was working on animated movies for their various super-hero properties, specifically JLA, Green Arrow and others. Today at Comic Con... <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC06/DC/dcu.html" target="_blank">From Newsarama</a>Paul Levitz stood to make an announcement, and spoke about a new strategy for DC to move into direct-to-video animation. Working with Warner Bros. Home Video and WB Animation, the company will launch a new line of direct-to-video DC animated movies that are being designed with DC Comics fans in mind, Levitz said. He continued, saying that DC is looking to do a series of titles that will tell the character bits and stories that were important to fans, and will be working with the comic book creators on them. The first title will be the previously-leaked animated film version of Darwyn Cooke's The New Frontier. Cooke will work with Stan (JLU) Berkowitz on the film, with Cooke providing key art direction. Another title in the series, Levitz continued, will be Superman/Doomsday, which will take the "essence" of the Superman/Doomsday story - and will be directed by Bruce Timm and written by Duane Capizzi, who's currently working on The Batman animated series. The third title in the series will be an animated version of the classic story Teen Titans story “The Judas Contract”, written by Marv Wolfman. Tom DeStano (X-Men) will join Wolfman as co-writer and producer on the film. "This is just the beginning," Levitz said. "We're sitting around and thinking of more...so send all your suggestions in." "We're going to take the marquee-value characters that have love across the generations," Levitz said. "And use the stellar characters so that the parental generation will reach out and share it with their kids. We're looking at all the great stories, and cases where we can find the best stories of a long run." Levitz also added that George Perez will be working on the animated Judas Contract as well, and that Bruce Timm will be overseeing all the animated films. "We’re looking at more than the last five minutes of history," Levitz said in regards to what will differentiate this from movies such as Ultimate Avengers. .... Clarifying the direct-to-video animated movies, DiDio said that the animation will be similar to the art in the comics, rather than working existing stories into currently existing animated styles for the DC animated properties. -------------------Now as much as I love the current Teen Titans.. seeing classic Perez-era Titans done in a comics-style animation... once that comes out, I can die a happy man.</blockquote>

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