Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Home Video have set the voice cast for the upcoming adaptation of Frank Miller’s classic 1986 tale The Dark Knight Returns.
They say the story is being split up into two animated features titled Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 and Part 2, with Part 1 hitting stores in the fall and Part 2 coming in early 2013.
Peter Weller (Robocop) will star as Batman/Bruce Wayne and Modern Family’s middle child Ariel Winter will play Robin.
The cast also includes David Selby, the actor who starred in the original Dark Shadows soap opera as well as the classic 1980s soap Falcon Crest; Wade Williams (Prison Break) as Harvey Dent/Two-Face; and Michael McKean as Dr. Wolper, the psychiatrist who releases the Joker from the insane asylum.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is being directed by Jay Oliva, who storyboarded Zack Snyder’s upcoming Superman movie Man of Steel, from a script by Bob Goodman.
