DC’s Injustice Film Finds the Voice Actors Amongst Us

We’re large followers of Tom Taylor’s Injustice: Gods Amongst Us comics, dubbing it the best “Superman goes evil” story ever written. So by extension, we’re trying ahead to WB Animation’s upcoming film adaptation—particularly now that the primary particulars have been launched.

The comedian sequence, which serves as a prequel to Netherrealm’s hit preventing sport sequence of the identical identify, begins when the Joker destroys all of Metropolis with a nuclear bomb and methods Superman into killing Lois Lane and his unborn youngster. It’s horrific sufficient to goad Superman into his first homicide, by ripping out the Joker’s coronary heart. Endlessly modified by the catastrophe, the hero decides the world is just too terrible to be left to its personal gadgets, and established a fascist regime with himself on the head—together with a number of DC heroes who really feel the identical means. Batman, unable to persuade his Tremendous Good friend to alter his thoughts, begins recruiting each heroes and villains in an effort to take Superman’s regime down. Then everyone fights quite a bit.

If Injustice sounds prefer it’s nothing however repetitive preventing I guarantee you, it isn’t. Taylor, and his successor Brian Buccellato, managed to have some actually significant character moments throughout the sequence, radically fleshing out the variations of DC icons heroic and villainous alike within the sequence—particularly with Harley Quinn, giving us one among essentially the most fascinating iterations of the character. Plus, the unique Injustice sequence was additionally a five-year, five-volume tour by way of the DC Universe, as Batman tried to defeat Superman with the Inexperienced Lantern Corps, DC’s preeminent magic-users, the pantheon of Greek gods, and extra. Meaning if this primary Injustice animated film is profitable, the newly introduced voice solid has plenty of work coming their means (a lot of whom are already doing double obligation):

• Justin Hartley as Superman
• Anson Mount as Batman
• Laura Bailey as Lois Lane and Rama Kushna
• Zach Callison as Damian and Jimmy Olsen
• Brian T. Delaney as Inexperienced Lantern
• Brandon Michael Corridor as Cyborg
• Edwin Hodge as Mr. Terrific and Killer Croc
• Oliver Hudson as Plastic Man
• Gillian Jacobs as Harley Quinn
• Yuri Lowenthal as Mirror Grasp, Flash, and Shazam
• Derek Phillips as Nightwing and Aquaman
• Kevin Pollak as Joker and Jonathan Kent
• Anika Noni Rose as Catwoman
• Reid Scott as Inexperienced Arrow and Victor Zsasz
• Faran Tahir as Ra’s al Ghul
• Fred Tatasciore as Captain Atom
• Janet Varney as Marvel Lady
• Andrew Morgado as Mirror Grasp Soldier

The film comes together with a featurette concerning the making of the film, and the traditional Justice League cartoon’s two-part “Injustice for All” story, and two “flashbacks” from earlier DC animated films. Injustice: Gods Amongst Us can be obtainable on Blu-ray, 4K Extremely HD, and digitally on October 19. However if you’d like a sneak peek, mark your calendar for DC’s on-line Fandom occasion on October 16.

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