New kids hit the block as Gotham's investigative finest.
CW's Gotham Knights (based on the DC comic and its related video game) taps Wayne fuel, with Bruce's adopted son, Turner Hayes, played by Oscar Morgan, leading a next-generation of do-gooders. The group rises as a result of Wayne's death, but its members face a troubling accusation.
Non-Two-Face Harvey Dent says they murdered Wayne (gasp!) and therefore, Batman; so, this story is as much a name-clearing one, as the youths swing forth to find who committed the heinous deed.
Joining Hayes' Batman/Nightwing in wait is Navia Robinson as Carrie Kelley/Robin; Fallon Smythe as Harper Row/Blue Bird; Anna Lore as Stephanie Brown/Spoiler (daughter of supervillain, Cluemaster); and Tyler DiChiara as Cullen Row (Harper's bro). There's also Doug "Pinhead" Bradley as old-time killer, Joe Chill, and Olivia Rose Keegan as Duela, daughter of The Joker. (From the publicity shots and trailer footage, she should spice up the proceedings in a way to make even Harley Quinn blush, but the insinuation is that she'll be more virtuous than adversarial.)
David Miller appears as Bruce Wayne, through early and flashback modes, no doubt: a melodramatic tactic used to haunting effect on HBO Max's Titans.
Some claim that Gotham Knights will be a watered-down, kiddie version of the latter, sans any cool costumes. Maybe so, but anything that adds to Batman's lineage is worth investigation in my estimation. (In other words, the odds favor I'll like it, even though I'm told I shouldn't.)
Gotham Knights begins March 14.
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