I’d like to do an entire feature with Bruce Greenwood as Batman and Neil Patrick Harris as Nightwing. You don’t want to be surprised – as soon as he speaks, you want to say to yourself, “That’s Batman.” Nightwing is exactly as I’ve had him in my head – Neil Patrick Harris couldn’t possibly do it better. Greenwood is about as Batman as you can get – which is exactly what you want. QUESTION: Do the voices of Bruce Greenwood, Jensen Ackles, Neil Patrick Harris and John DiMaggio match what you had in your head while writing the dialogue? JUDD WINICK: I’ve been writing these characters for years, and it’s remarkable the job those actors did. That’s a very exhilarating experience for a writer. More importantly, it’s gratifying to see the words and action come to life in all the ways film affords – through incredibly talented actors giving the words all that emotional impact and to see the characters actually fight and run and yell and shout and cry. We can’t do that in comics – there always has to be some banter or internal monologue. One of the fun parts of writing for film is that it allows you the freedom for your characters to just shut up and fight. And I don’t mean to take anything away from writing for comics, as this is just a different form of story telling. QUESTION: Can you describe the gratification of watching your words come to animated life? JUDD WINICK: It’s great. Animation usually gets just the action and the visualization, and not the characters actually feeling anything. This story is about characters actually emoting and dealing with horrible situations. The opera of it all is usually reserved for live action. We don’t really get to tell stories like this in animation.
I’m really, really happy that the emotional core of the story is still there. = TEASER = QUESTION: Were you disappointed with what you needed to cut out? JUDD WINICK: Actually, I was thrilled about what went in. There are no cul-de-sacs or crossovers – it’s all about getting the story to its essence.
And for those who know anything about movies, it’s about putting one foot in front of the other, building from one scene to the next to the next and so on. It forces one to cut out all the fat and get to the heart of it. QUESTION: What was the greatest challenge in taking your graphic novel to script format? JUDD WINICK: I had to take two years of story and boil it down to 75 minutes of film, and that’s a challenge and liberating at the same time. It was in 2005 that he presented his Red Hood storyline in the Batman comic. He is currently developing live action television and animation, writing the new bi-weekly Justice League: Generation Lost, as well as the monthly Power Girl. Writer Judd Winick has helped to transition one of his benchmark storylines from comic pages to animated film. I may have expressed how eager I am to see the next DC Universe original animated film Batman: Under The Red Hood.
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