Absolute BatmanWarner Bros. Animation, 2026Three new DC universe animated series were announced during a joint DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation presentation at the 2026 Annecy International Animation Film Festival.The presentation 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), alongside Warner Bros. Animation artists who shared first looks and creative insights into the next era of DC animation.Absolute Batman, based on the award-winning and best-selling DC comic book series of the same name, will see Scott Snyder serve as executive producer and showrunner. Snyder wrote the comic book series. Nick Dragotta provided art for the book series and will take a producer role on the TV series.In the comic book series, Bruce Wayne was a blue collar worker from the projects who had lost one parent, not two. And he was a jacked man who also fought crime, but more resembled an MMA fighter than the traditionally proportioned Caped Crusader.The series is described by the company as “still in development” and no network home has been announced. But it did provide this brief logline: Absolute Batman boldly reinvents the Batman mythos for a new generation of fans, reimagining the Dark Knight as a working-class hero up against impossible odds (and the most terrifying foes ever), on a mission to prove that even in an era of wealth, power and corruption, one good person can change the world.