“They said, ‘Hey, how would you feel about going back and making some more ‘B:TAS’ episodes?’ And I’m like, ‘Nah, we’d been there, we’d done that.’ I wasn’t interested in just revisiting that world,” Timm explained.
Some time passed, until Timm got a call from Sam Register and Peter Gerardi, animation executives at Warner Bros., who told Timm that J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves were interested in executive producing a “Batman” show with them. It led to a Zoom conversation with Abrams and Reeves, where Timm gave them his pitch: “I wanted to blend the atmospherics of Universal horror movies and the drama of Warner Bros. gangster movies and the action of Republic serials and mix it all together with a lot of film noir on top.” From that point forward, Timm said it was a done deal.
