Matthew Needham is the voice of The Joker in Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2, Prime Video has announced. British actor Needham is most famous for playing Larys Strong in Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon.
Confirmation comes from the Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2 panel at San Diego Comic-Con, which ended with a trailer for Amazon’s upcoming Batman: Caped Crusader – Chronicles game. It’s exclusive to Amazon Luna (and now, part of Amazon Prime), and launches alongside all 10 episodes of Season 2 on July 31.
Batman: Caped Crusader is a superhero noir animated series created by Bruce Timm (co-creator of Batman: The Animated Series), The Batman director Matt Reeves, and J.J. Abrams. The show follows a rookie, early-career Bruce Wayne as he takes on Gotham’s criminal underworld in a 1940s setting.
Here’s the official blurb from Prime Video:
Batman: Caped Crusader is a hard-boiled animated series that follows the fearsome vigilante in his early years. Forged in the fire of tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne becomes something both more and less than human — the Batman. Night after night, against overwhelming odds, he wages his relentless one-man war on crime.
The series is a reimagining of the Batman mythology through the visionary lens of executive producers J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves and Bruce Timm. Based on DC characters, Batman: Caped Crusader hails from Warner Bros. Animation, DC Studios, Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and Reeves’ 6th & Idaho. Along with Abrams, Reeves and Timm, Batman: Caped Crusader executive producers include James Tucker, Geoffrey Thorne, Sarah Geismer, Rachel Rusch Rich, and Sam Register.
Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2 voice cast
Returning voice cast members for Season 2 include Hamish Linklater as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Jamie Chung as Harley Quinn/Harleen Quinzel, Jason Watkins as Alfred Pennyworth, Eric Morgan Stuart as Commissioner Jim Gordon, Krystal Joy Brown as Barbara Gordon, Michelle C. Bonilla as Renee Montoya, and Bumper Robinson as Lucius Fox.
IGN’s Batman: Caped Crusader Season 1 review returned a 7/10. We said: “Batman: Caped Crusader isn’t Batman: The Animated Series, but it does apply its spirit to a captivating detective story.”
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