Together with delivering a wild cameo of Nicolas Cage as Superman, the large multiverse sequence in The Flash’s climax additionally featured a number of deceased DC actors by the usage of AI and deepfaking, together with Adam West, star of the Sixties Batman TV collection. Whereas West handed away again in 2017, the newest of the theatrically-released DC films gave followers a fast reunion with the affectionately-nicknamed Vibrant Knight, who fought crime in Gotham Metropolis alongside Burt Ward’s Robin. Nevertheless, it doesn’t finish with the Scarlet Speedster-led function, as West has one other posthumous look in a DC undertaking lined up, albeit not because the Caped Crusader.
One of many currently-running DC TV exhibits is Batwheels, a preschool-geared animated collection specializing in the varied autos pushed by members of the Bat-Household. The present, which each airs on Cartoon Community and might be seen with a Max subscription, will kick off a brand new batch of episodes on September 11, and per Comicbook.com, West shall be heard because the voice of the traditional 1966 Batmobile in “To the Batmobile,” which airs on September 15, the day earlier than this 12 months’s Batman Day.
Provided that Batwheels entered improvement in 2020, naturally the present shall be recycling audio from Adam West relatively than the actor having recorded dialogue beforehand. This would be the actor’s third posthumous Batman-related look, as together with The Flash, he voiced Batman for the ultimate time within the animated film Batman vs. Two-Face, which got here out 4 months after West’s loss of life and adopted 2016’s Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders. Each films have been set in the identical continuity as the unique Batman TV collection, which aired on ABC from 1966 to 1968 and was accompanied by one live-action theatrical film launched throughout its first 12 months on the air.
Whereas it’s unclear what the West-voiced Batmobile will particularly be doing in “To the Batmobile,” he’ll undoubtedly be serving to out the forged of youthful vehicular protagonists, together with Jacob Bertrand’s foremost Batmobile, Jordan Reed’s Redbird, Madigan Kacmar’s Batgirl cycle, Noah Bentley’s Bat Truck and Lilimar’s Batwing, amongst others. Batwheels additionally options vocal expertise like Ethan Hawke as Batman, A.J. Hudson as Duke Thomas/Robin, Leah Lewis as Cassandra Cain/Batgirl and MacLeod Lewis as Oliver Queen/Inexperienced Arrow, and together with loads of acquainted villains antagonizing the superheroes, their autos and devices have their very own group of rogues designated the Legion of Zoom.
As for what else is developing on the Batman films and TV entrance, Matt Reeves’ The Batman universe is about to broaden with The Penguin miniseries that may air on Max, adopted by The Batman: Half II’s launch in theaters in October 2025. In the meantime, the brand new DC Universe’s Chapter One slate consists of the film The Courageous and the Daring, which is able to see its model of the Darkish Knight teaming up along with his son, Damian. Moreover, Amazon Prime Video subscribers have some unique Batman-related content material to look ahead to, together with the animated exhibits Batman: Caped Crusader and Bat-Household, the latter of which shall be preceded by the film Merry Little Batman.
