No, no, no. Not the much rumored, much hyped, yet-to-be, live-action Batman Beyond movie. At the moment I couldn't give a rat's ass about that, especially with the persistent Keanu casting rumors that keep floating around. I'm talking about a new animated movie that's supposed to bridge the gap between the old animated series and Batman Beyond, and explain what happened to Robin, Nightwing, etc. The animated portion of the Batman franchise has consistently been better than it's live-action counterparts, and this new entry is reportedly at least as good as Mask of the Phantasm, which is considered by most fans to be the bast Batman movie in the entire franchise, live-action or animated. At least, that's what those who saw the advanced screening copy of the version that was supposed to come out two weeks from now said about it, but that might not be true anymore if they go and chop it up so that it doesn't frighten small children and piss off politicians.

On the live-action front, I'm way more psyched about "Year One," but even with Frank Miller working on the script and the raves director Darren Arenofsky is getting for Requiem for a Dream, at this point I don't trust Warner Bros. to do it justice. I'm hopeful, but I'm not letting my expecations run too high.

But then again, I fully expected "X-Men" to suck ...