HBO Max's orphaned Batman: Caped Crusader cartoon finds new home at Amazon
The series, from J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves, and Batman: The Animated Series' Bruce Timm, got a two-season order at Amazon
HBO Max’s rampage through its own catalogue of streaming content last year left a wide swathe of victims in its wake, in various states of miserable destruction. On the one hand, we have movies like Batgirl and Scoob: Holiday Haunt: Completed, or nearly completed, movies that got locked up in a vault somewhere, transformed through the magic of balance sheets from creative work into just so many tax write-offs. On the gentler side, we have projects that were merely orphaned, like Batman animated series Caped Crusader, a highly anticipated collaboration between The Batman director Matt Reeves, J.J. Abrams, and Batman: The Animated Series co-creator Bruce Timm. HBO Max made it clear, even in the midst of the bloodbath, that it wasn’t interested in killing the animated series: It just didn’t want it for itself.