Matt Reeves’ upcoming animated series Batman: Caped Crusader will bring a new take on the Joker in Season 2.
Speaking to The Direct, co-showrunner James Tucker said the Joker in Caped Crusader will be “a new take for people who only know of… If Joker begins with Mark Hamill and Jack Nicholson, this take on the Joker will be very different for them. But for people who’ve read comics for a long, long, long, long time, it won’t be.”
Caped Crusader is separate from his live-action The Batman films starring Robert Pattinson. The show premiered on Amazon Prime Video in August 2024, and is developed by Bruce Timm. The show follows young Bruce Wayne in the early stages of his crime-fighting career and draws inspiration from Batman stories of the 1940s and 1960s.
Season 1 mostly avoided the Joker but introduced a new Harley Quinn. The finale, Savage Night, teased the villain with a short scene showing an obscured figure holding a needle and saying, “Perfect,” while hostages laugh uncontrollably.
Tucker also explained how the show differs from Reeves’ films. He said, “The only thing we may have directly in common is that our Batman is coming from a more detective angle and so is his, and the tone of the series… there’s a general dark tone. But other than that, the settings are different. It’s all different. We’re coming from the same source material but avoiding stepping on each other’s toes.”
For now, season 2 does not have a set release date yet, but Tucker said the team is putting the “final touches” on episodes and hopes to release them “some time in 2026.”
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2025-10-13 05:44:00
