"Batman: Soul of the Dragon" Animated Feature News & Discussion Thread (Spoilers)

[Frontier]

Sam Liu mentioned he took a lot of visual cues and transitions from the Kung Fu television series starring the late David Carradine.

Never heard of it, but feels appropriate .

And in one of those stills is Rip Jagger who is voiced by Chris Cox.

I love Chris Cox but that name .

 

[Yojimbo]

Never heard of it, but feels appropriate .

I saw a few episodes of the 70s version, it was pretty good but the basic template of the good guy going from place to place in Wild West America and doing good deeds while searching for um, a relative I think. The 90s soft reboot/sequel series was eh.

I love Chris Cox but that name .

Well, his moniker "Judomaster" isn't that much better. lol.

 

[Frontier]

I saw a few episodes of the 70s version, it was pretty good but the basic template of the good guy going from place to place in Wild West America and doing good deeds while searching for um, a relative I think. The 90s soft reboot/sequel series was eh.

Those shows were pretty popular back then .

Well, his moniker "Judomaster" isn't that much better. lol.

Oh wait, he's Judomaster? I never knew his real name. Well, it makes sense for him of all people to be in this flick .

 

[SweetShop209]

Some more new images came out.

 

[Frontier]

Some more new images came out.

Richard Dragon in combat mode! Shiva sitting like an Empress! Bronze Tiger busting heads! Bruce vs Bronze Tiger .

 

[SweetShop209]

Here's a clip from Batman: Soul Of The Dragon.

 

[Frontier]

Here's a clip from Batman: Soul Of The Dragon.

Bruce Wayne wants his training and he wants it now .

 

[Yojimbo]

Interview with Michael Jai White.

 

[RoyalRubble]

Animation Magazine article about Soul of the Dragon. Possible Spoilers.

 

[Frontier]

Animation Magazine article about Soul of the Dragon. Possible Spoilers.

Makes you more conscious about how tight the turnaround on these films has become .

 

[Yojimbo]

Animation Magazine article about Soul of the Dragon. Possible Spoilers.

Thank you for rejecting anything "disco," Mr. Timm.

Aw, no Shaw Brothers SFX.

And the article mentions the lead character designer was Aluir Amancio and the Batman look was influenced by Cliff Chiang and Steve Rude after attempts to lean to Neal Adams and Jim Aparo.

 

[RoyalRubble]

Interview with Kelly Hu.

 

[Frontier]

Interview with Kelly Hu.

Time to count up how much actual dialogue Shiva will get in the movie .

 

[SweetShop209]

Here's another clip from Batman: Soul Of The Dragon.

 

[Frontier]

Here's another clip from Batman: Soul Of The Dragon.

"Soulbreaker?" Is that the twin blade to the Soultaker sword? Is the girl next to Shiva supposed to be Tatsu/Katana ?

 

[SweetShop209]

"Soulbreaker?" Is that the twin blade to the Soultaker sword? Is the girl next to Shiva supposed to be Tatsu/Katana ?

Maybe that's the character Jamie Chung is playing (since the second article didn't say who she's voicing in this movie).

 

[b.t.]

Maybe that's the character Jamie Chung is playing (since the second article didn't say who she's voicing in this movie).

Jamie Cheung’s character is named Jade.

Also, the sword was originally supposed to be Soultaker, but our friends at DC thought it would be too weird to have that sword in the movie without Katana too. We explained that we didn’t have room in the story for another high-profile DC martial artist no matter how much we like that character, and anyhow the thing with Katana and her sword isn’t like the exclusive bond between Thor and Mjolnir and even THAT supposedly unbreakable Nerd Law has been broken several times without the world coming to an end and can we PLEASE just use Soultaker without shoe-horning Katana into our movie, pretty pretty please?

But no. Word came from On High: “NO KATANA, NO SOULTAKER”.

Rats. NOW what?

Fortunately, Jaunty Jeremy Adams did some speedy research on the internets and according to the the DC Wiki site, Soultaker was one of TWO mystic swords forged at the same time — kinda like Stormbringer and Mournblade from the Elric books, I guess — even though that second sword has never actually shown up in any canonical DC comic story, apparently, or even been given a name. So then my nerd neurons started firing like crazy and I free-associated from “Stormbringer” to “Stormbreaker” to “SOULBREAKER”, the hitherto unnamed sister sword of the legendary Soultaker.

The Mighty DC Gatekeepers decreed, “WELLLLLL....WE STILL THINK IT WOULD BE REALLY NEAT IF KATANA WAS IN THE MOVIE. BUT WE’LL ALLOW IT.”

And that, o my brothers and sisters, is how sausage is made.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

The animation in this movie looks amazing. So vibrant and fluid.

 

[Frontier]

Jamie Cheung’s character is named Jade.

I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that that's also Cheshire's real name .

Also, the sword was originally supposed to be Soultaker, but our friends at DC thought it would be too weird to have that sword in the movie without Katana too. We explained that we didn’t have room in the story for another high-profile DC martial artist no matter how much we like that character, and anyhow the thing with Katana and her sword isn’t like the exclusive bond between Thor and Mjolnir and even THAT supposedly unbreakable Nerd Law has been broken several times without the world coming to an end and can we PLEASE just use Soultaker without shoe-horning Katana into our movie, pretty pretty please?

But no. Word came from On High: “NO KATANA, NO SOULTAKER”.

Rats. NOW what?

Fortunately, Jaunty Jeremy Adams did some speedy research on the internets and according to the the DC Wiki site, Soultaker was one of TWO mystic swords forged at the same time — kinda like Stormbringer and Mournblade from the Elric books, I guess — even though that second sword has never actually shown up in any canonical DC comic story, apparently, or even been given a name. So then my nerd neurons started firing like crazy and I free-associated from “Stormbringer” to “Stormbreaker” to “SOULBREAKER”, the hitherto unnamed sister sword of the legendary Soultaker.

The Mighty DC Gatekeepers decreed, “WELLLLLL....WE STILL THINK IT WOULD BE REALLY NEAT IF KATANA WAS IN THE MOVIE. BUT WE’LL ALLOW IT.”

And that, o my brothers and sisters, is how sausage is made.

Maybe I'm too much of a fanboy but I do think it would be kind of random to have Katana's sword be relevant to a movie and not have her show up at all...maybe I have what it takes to be a DC exec .

 

[Otaku-sempai]

I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that that's also Cheshire's real name .

Oh, a complete coincidence I'm suuure.