Every DC Animated Movie Coming In 2024

Summary

• DC’s animated movie legacy is strong, with promising 2024 releases like Batman Azteca and Watchmen.
• Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths delivers a faithful adaptation, featuring iconic DC heroes.
• DC Universe, a major comic franchise, competes with Marvel, experiencing revamps under James Gunn.

DC has multiple exciting animated movies in 2024. While the live-action movie side of DC media has had its ups and downs over several decades of projects, the brand has always had a solid and successful footing in the world of animated features. Starting all the way back with Max Fleischer’s Superman serials in the 1940s, animation has been a core part of DC’s movie and television series release strategy. This has resulted in several now-classic projects, from Batman: The Animated Series to Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, as well as in some DC animated universes, such as the Tomorrowverse.

Warner Bros. regularly releases several DC animated films a year, with some still currently set to arrive in 2024. DC’s slate is diverse and promising, hopefully giving viewers a lot to look forward to from 2024’s DC animated adventures. Here are all three DC animated movies arriving in 2024.

Batman Azteca: Choque De Imperios (TBA 2024)

The upcoming animated movie Batman Azteca: Choque De Imperios is a true DC Elseworlds tale, re-imagining the Dark Knight’s origin story with a young Aztec boy named Yohualli Coatl (voiced by Horacio Garcia Rojas) in the place of Bruce Wayne. After the murder of his parents by Spanish Conquistadors, Yohualli becomes an ancient, Meso-American version of the Caped Crusader. Batman Azteca is directed and co-written by Juan Jose Meza-Leon, and while few other major details have been revealed about it, the character re-invention it gives to Batman is a unique one that makes it a very intriguing DC animated movie.

Watchmen Chapter 1& 2

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s acclaimed graphic novel Watchmen finally made it to the big screen in 2009 in the form of Zack Snyder’s first DC movie (albeit with the notoriously adaptation-averse Moore being uncredited). The upcoming animated DC movie Watchmen is set to retell the iconic story for new audiences, in which Rorschach investigates the murder of the Comedian in a world where superheroes have been outlawed, while Dr. Manhattan has become an all-powerful being.

The story will be split up into two chapters, with Watchmen Chapter 1 set to release on Digital on August 13, and then August 27 on Blu-Ray and Ultra HD. The second half of the DC movie series currently has no confirmed release date, but is expected to release in 2025.

The animated format of the new Watchmen movie has raised hopes it will be able to be more accurate to the original comic series – with the Watchmen trailer supporting this idea – but whether this will come to fruition or not remains to be seen, and will likely only become concretely clear upon the installment’s actual release. This is doubly true given the style of the animation aims for a more 3d-esque look, which is an alteration from the graphic novel’s own art style.

Every DC Animated Movie Released In 2024

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One, Two & Three

DC’s famous multiverse story Crisis On Infinite Earths received the animated treatment in Justice League: Crisis On Infinite Earths. With the Anti-Monitor threatening the stability of the multiverse, it is up to the heroes of multiple DC universes to join forces to stop him.

Crisis On Infinite Earths was previously the basis for the CW’s live-action crossover of DC movies and TV shows, but gets a more comic-accurate rendition in the animated adaptation. The movie series also boats a considerable cast full of notable and iconic actors, with the final installment containing Kevin Conroy’s final appearance as Batman – and Mark Hamill’s final appearance as the Joker, with the actor confirming he wouldn’t be reprising the role following Conroy’s passing in 2022. Crisis On Infinite Earths‘ cast also includes Jensen Ackles, Zachary Quinto, and Alexandra Daddario.

Justice League: Crisis On Infinite Earths released in three parts, which premiered on January 9, April 23, and July 16 respectively, splitting up the series between seven months of the year. The series is the first animated adaptation of the titular DC comics event and is a part of the Tomorrowverse DC animated timeline.

Every DC Animated TV Show Released & Coming In 2024

• My Adventures with Superman Season 2 & 3 (Ongoing) – My Adventures With Superman details the early days of a young Clark Kent’s superhero story, including his arrival at the Daily Planet and his blossoming romance with Lois Lane. The show has been confirmed for a third season, and releases on Adult Swim and Max.
• Suicide Squad ISEKAI (Ongoing) – An anime adaptation of the titular supervillain team, Isekai imagines the group entering a fantasy land, and the chaos that would come with it.
• Kite Man: Hell Yeah! (July 18, 2024) – A spinoff from the Harley Quinn series, the comedy animated series focuses more on the well-meaning but long-suffering Kite Man and his attempts to open and sustain a bar alongside his girlfriend Golden Glider. The show is set to release on Max.
• Batman: Caped Crusader (August 1, 2024) – Helmed by Bruce Timm, Matt Reeves and J.J. Abrams, Caped Crusader follows the Dark Knight in a darker version of Batman: The Animated Series‘ story, which is set to reimagine much of the classic Batman cast and explore the complex psychological set-up of its iteration of the hero. Batman: Caped Crusader will release on Prime Video.
• Creature Commandos (December 2024) – The first release of the new DC Universe headed by co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran, Creature Commandos is set to bring a Suicide Squad-like team to the forefront of the franchise in what will also be its first animated adventures. Given animated characters and live-action characters are set to be played by the same actors in the universe, the show is likely to reveal a fair few other DC castings for the new world.