DC’s Milestone Heroes Are Teaming Up for a New Animated Movie

After years of being tied up in comics publishing limbo, the heroes of Milestone Comics lastly started making their triumphant return to the world in 2021 as part of DC Comics’ new initiative to revitalize the Milestone model, and convey basic characters like Static, Icon, and Rocket into the twenty first century for a brand new viewers. At time when DC’s been attempting to highlight a extra numerous array of tales that includes marginalized characters, it makes excellent sense that DC could be placing vitality into Milestone in comedian type, however at this 12 months’s DC Fandome, the writer made clear that it doesn’t intend to cease with books.

During a panel about Milestone’s future hosted by Arrow’s Echo Kellum, Milestone co-founder Denys Cowan and producer Reggie Hudlin introduced {that a} new animated function movie is in presently improvement from Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. The new film, written by Hardware Season One scribe Brandon Thomas, will highlight a number of heroes from the Dakotaverse, and whereas Cowan didn’t point out any specifics, he mentioned that the venture can be one thing “that Milestone fans have been dreaming about for a long time.”

News of the brand new animated function comes within the wake of Warner Bros. greenlighting a new live-action Static Shock function produced in partnership with Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society manufacturing firm, and it’s greater than possible that Static can even seem within the new function. The new Milestone film would be the first animated venture centered on Milestone characters for the reason that Static Shock animated collection from 2000, and DC appears eager on attempting to create a brand new wave of hype round its Milestone as a properties as an entire within the close to future.

In addition to a brand new Blood Syndicate collection due out a while subsequent 12 months, DC can even accomplice with Ally financial institution to launch the Milestone Initiative Development Program, a brand new expertise recruitment venture below the Next Generation DC banner. In a public assertion, DC senior vp and basic supervisor Daniel Cherry III described this system as the best begin for Next Generation DC, and a part of DC’s efforts at diversifying its present expertise pool.

“Our current lineup of Milestone titles have released to great critical and sales success, expanding the loyal fanbase, while at the same time inviting new readers to experience the ‘Dakotaverse’ and its heroes,” Cherry mentioned. “For many Black and diverse artists and writers, Milestone is part of their comic book DNA and we are thankful to partner with Ally to help these new voices be heard in addition to adding to Milestone’s legacy.”

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