Absolute Batman, Joker: Laugh Riot and Krypto Animated Series Announced

DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation announced 3 caller animated bid astatine the 2026 Annecy International Animation Film Festival connected Thursday: Absolute Batman, Joker: Laugh Riot, and an untitled Krypto show.

Joker: Laugh Riot is officially greenlit, portion the different 2 shows are listed arsenic successful development. None of the shows person a web lined up yet.

The big animated bid Absolute Batman is, of course, based connected the award-winning and best-selling DC comic publication bid written by Scott Snyder with creation by Nick Dragotta. Snyder volition service arsenic enforcement shaper and showrunner, with Dragotta arsenic producer.

The series’ authoritative crippled statement follows: “Absolute Batman boldly reinvents the Batman mythos for a caller procreation of fans, reimagining the Dark Knight arsenic a working-class leader up against intolerable likelihood (and the astir terrifying foes ever), connected a ngo to beryllium that adjacent successful an epoch of wealth, powerfulness and corruption, 1 bully idiosyncratic tin alteration the world.

No manor, nary money... each Batman. When you instrumentality distant the manor, the money, the advantages, what you’re near with is thing absolute.”

Joker: Laugh Riot is billed arsenic DC’s first-ever anime series. Jim Krieg (Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall) serves arsenic the enforcement shaper portion the manager is Yasuhiro Aoki (Batman: Gotham Knight). The show’s studios see Warner Bros. Animation, DC Studios, and SOLA Entertainment.

Here’s the show’s authoritative description:

“When Batman is murdered, the Joker launches a ruthless crusade done Gotham’s underworld to find the slayer who took distant his top adversary. But arsenic his convulsive quest for answers pushes him person towards vigilante than villain, Joker is forced to face the information that without Batman, helium doesn’t cognize who helium is.”

The untitled kid’s amusement featuring super-dog Krypto is enforcement produced by C.H. Greenblatt (Dead Man, Jellystone, SpongeBob SquarePants).

“When he’s not hanging retired with Superman oregon Supergirl, Krypto tags on with a pack of misfit transgression wannabes who unrecorded down the block, and they soon observe he’s a shot of destructive, lovable vigor worse than immoderate of them! As helium follows them into misadventures and poorly laid plans, Krypto’s axenic quality dilatory ends up redeeming them, whether they privation it oregon not,” according to the show’s authoritative description.

Annecy’s World’s Finest Animation: DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation Showcase featured Peter Safran (Co‑Chairman and Co‑CEO, DC Studios) and Sam Register (President, Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios, and Hanna‑Barbera Studios Europe).