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You Decide the Outcome in Trailer for Interactive Movie, Batman: Death in the Family


With Batman: Under the Red Hood becoming 10-years-old this year, WB has decided to revisit that continuity with Batman: Death in the Family. What's interesting is, the movie is going to be interactive, keeping into the spirit of the original comic where audiences were allowed to vote on how the comic was going to end.

Anchoring the compilation of shorts is Batman: Death in the Family, WBHE's first-ever venture into interactive storytelling that allows fans to choose where the story goes through an innovative navigation guided by the viewer's remote control. Central to the extended-length short is an adaptation of "Batman: A Death in the Family," the 1988 landmark DC event where fans voted by telephone to determine the story's ending.

The interactive Blu-ray presentation offers many different ways for viewers to tell the Batman: Death in the Family story, with numerous twists and turns in the middle, and several possible endings. The choices along the way put greater weight on the viewers' decisions and result in even stronger stories.

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Granted I haven't watched Under the Red Hood in a while, but a lot of the design elements of that film are brought back for this movie—particularly John DiMaggio's Joker. This time, though, we get to see a lot more villains, from Two-Face to Cheetah. It's still unclear if Neil Patrick Harris will be reprising the role of Nightwing though.

Personally, I find these interactive films kind of exhausting, especially when the completionist in me wants to know every possible outcome. Though they are fun from time to time, I would prefer a straightforward story with a single, clear vision. I guess this one's special in a sense they're keeping true to the original comic where fans got to decide the end.

Batman: Death in the Family becomes available this fall.

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