The Dark Knight leaps back to the 1970’s for Bruce Timm’s Batman: Soul Of The Dragon, the latest installment in the ongoing DC Universe Movies animated franchise.
Digital HD will be the first format out of the gate with a January 12th, 2021 release date. Batman: Soul Of The Dragon on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray will arrive two weeks later on January 26th, 2021.
The feature-length animated film is an Elseworlds adventure where Bruce Wayne aka Batman trains under the guidance of a master sensei named aptly O-Sensei. It will be up to Batman and other martial arts-trained heroes to stop a threat from the past.
Featured voice actors starring in Batman: Soul Of The Dragon include David Giuntoli as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Mark Dacascos as Richard Dragon, Kelly Hu as Lady Shiva, and Michael Jai White as Ben Turner/Bronze Tiger. O-Sensei is voiced by James Hong with Josh Keaton featured as Jeffrey Burr.
Additional voices are provided by veteran voiceover actors Grey Griffin, Chris Cox, Erica Luttrell, Robin Atkin Downes, Patrick Seitz, Jamie Chung and Eric Bauza.
Bonus features include the following:
- Batman – Raw Groove (New Featurette) – From the explosion of gritty cinema and kung fu to the cultural changes spreading across the U.S., we explore the early ’70s and how they inspired Batman: Soul of the Dragon.
- Producer Jim Krieg’s Far Out Highlights (New Featurette) – It’s an off-the-hook and out-of-sight supercut of one of Producer Jim Krieg’s funniest in-character appearances.
- A Sneak Peek at the next DC Universe Movie – An advance look at the next animated film in the popular DC Universe Movies collection, Justice Society: World War II.
- Look Back: Superman: Red Son (Featurette) – Kal-El’s rocket fleeing Krypton never reaches Smallville, but instead lands in the Soviet Union, single-handedly shifting the new world order. This is the epic re-imagining of Superman’s origin story.
- Look Back: Batman: Gotham By Gaslight (Featurette) – Set against the backdrop of turn of the century Gotham, Batman is involved in a hunt for a criminal who has committed the most heinous acts of murder. This is Batman versus Jack the Ripper
- From the DC Vault: Batman: The Animated Series, “Day of the Samurai”
- From the DC Vault: Batman: The Animated Series, “Night of the Ninja”
Here’s a look at the official Batman: Soul Of The Dragon trailer.
