If you’re talking about the flash cameo, many fans were quick to point out that it had its ears digitally removed. That wasn’t BatMan. That was Man.
20th Centurt Fox owned the televised rights to Batman, meaning without permission from Disney there are no new televised appearances of him. Even the Batman animated series were on Fox.
I think even Teen Titans original series excluded Batman.
There are different rights and types of ownership for these things. One person can own the merchandising rights while another owns the rights to distribute media.
Oh James Gunn made a four word tweet about it? That totally convinces me. Thanks for that. /s
You can come up with as many examples as you want, examples of times they had permission, but the fact remains that studios go far out of their way to obscure batman, digitally alter his appearance, or exclude him entirely. So this rumor won’t die that easily. Truly the dark knight, brooding in the shadows just out of frame.
I know you’ve said you’re not convinced… But then you also called it a rumor that won’t die?
For Creature Commandos here is a whole interview where James Gunn says Batman again and again. He has made creative decisions to limit his appearance, but it’s 100% Batman.
If course that article isn’t even 100% correct best we actually see a dead Batman earlier in the same series as part of a premonition.
Also James Gunn isn’t just “some guy” he’s the Co-chairman and Co-CEO of DC Studios. This isn’t Kevin Feige having to drag out Amy Pascal or Sony Everytime they mention Spider-Man. This is a clear statement.
Disney does not control the rights to Batman. MAYBE they have some residual rights to older content, but nothing recent.
I feel like you’re stuck on loop with these examples where batman makes an appearance or reference but I’ve already explained to you so many times that this can happen in the theory I presented but they require permission to do it.
DC is owned by Warner Bros who is a competitor (in the most uneven sense possible) to Disney which owns Fox who from the 1960s to at least the 1990s owned the rights to televise Batman.
My point is that they don’t require permission anymore. Disney does not own Batman in any of his recent work. Batman can pop up anywhere and anytime and Disney does not need to OK anything, they are not involved.
So the argument that the reason we don’t see Batman on TV and movies recently is because of Disney is false. Both because Disney is not involved and because yes, yes we have seen him on both big and small screen recently.
There are no existing articles to support the idea that Disney owns/controls current day Batman.
There are rumors that they do, but even those rumors confuse things like the Gotham TV series airing on Fox having anything to do with who owns the rights to Batman. For example as I stated earlier, an animated Batman show ran on Amazon, that doesn’t mean Amazon owns the rights to Batman either, just those specific streaming rights.
They’re still hiding or obfuscating their most popular character. Even your James Gunn interview admitted they were intentionally limiting his screen time. I don’t think this is some 4D Chess Game by Gunn, I think they simply don’t have the authority, that is the evidence I’ve presented.
The reason they do this is because of licensing contracts. They have to use the rights or lose them.
It’s also why Batman doesn’t show up in TV and Movies lately, Disney has the rights because they purchased Fox even though WB owns the character.
READ YOUR CONTRACTS, CHILDREN.
Batman is a DC character, not Marvel. So Disney doesn’t own them.
Batman had a live action film in 2022, with a sequel in production.
Batman cameoed in an animated TV series earlier this year.
Batman had his own animated TV series on Amazon last year, with a second season planned.
Batman appears in animated films about once a year.
If you’re talking about the flash cameo, many fans were quick to point out that it had its ears digitally removed. That wasn’t BatMan. That was Man.
20th Centurt Fox owned the televised rights to Batman, meaning without permission from Disney there are no new televised appearances of him. Even the Batman animated series were on Fox.
I think even Teen Titans original series excluded Batman.
There are different rights and types of ownership for these things. One person can own the merchandising rights while another owns the rights to distribute media.
The animated Batman cameo was Creature Commandos.
The Amazon show was Batman: Caped Crusader.
James Gunn recently (a year ago) debunked the rumor that Disney owns Batman in some way, https://screenrant.com/batman-tv-rights-james-gunn-disney-rumor/
Oh James Gunn made a four word tweet about it? That totally convinces me. Thanks for that. /s
You can come up with as many examples as you want, examples of times they had permission, but the fact remains that studios go far out of their way to obscure batman, digitally alter his appearance, or exclude him entirely. So this rumor won’t die that easily. Truly the dark knight, brooding in the shadows just out of frame.
I know you’ve said you’re not convinced… But then you also called it a rumor that won’t die?
For Creature Commandos here is a whole interview where James Gunn says Batman again and again. He has made creative decisions to limit his appearance, but it’s 100% Batman.
If course that article isn’t even 100% correct best we actually see a dead Batman earlier in the same series as part of a premonition.
Also James Gunn isn’t just “some guy” he’s the Co-chairman and Co-CEO of DC Studios. This isn’t Kevin Feige having to drag out Amy Pascal or Sony Everytime they mention Spider-Man. This is a clear statement.
Disney does not control the rights to Batman. MAYBE they have some residual rights to older content, but nothing recent.
I feel like you’re stuck on loop with these examples where batman makes an appearance or reference but I’ve already explained to you so many times that this can happen in the theory I presented but they require permission to do it.
DC is owned by Warner Bros who is a competitor (in the most uneven sense possible) to Disney which owns Fox who from the 1960s to at least the 1990s owned the rights to televise Batman.
My point is that they don’t require permission anymore. Disney does not own Batman in any of his recent work. Batman can pop up anywhere and anytime and Disney does not need to OK anything, they are not involved.
So the argument that the reason we don’t see Batman on TV and movies recently is because of Disney is false. Both because Disney is not involved and because yes, yes we have seen him on both big and small screen recently.
There are no existing articles to support the idea that Disney owns/controls current day Batman.
There are rumors that they do, but even those rumors confuse things like the Gotham TV series airing on Fox having anything to do with who owns the rights to Batman. For example as I stated earlier, an animated Batman show ran on Amazon, that doesn’t mean Amazon owns the rights to Batman either, just those specific streaming rights.
They’re still hiding or obfuscating their most popular character. Even your James Gunn interview admitted they were intentionally limiting his screen time. I don’t think this is some 4D Chess Game by Gunn, I think they simply don’t have the authority, that is the evidence I’ve presented.