DC confirms Bane for the next Dark Knight flick, officially!

Batman flicks are always exciting, and DC currently has multiple Batman projects lined up, in both live-action and animation, for the next few years.

Batman has a fascinating array of villains or rogues, with The Batman 2 set for a 2027 release, so is DCU’s The Brave and the Bold. But amidst all this info, there’s a release set for 2026.   

Yeah, you read/heard that right, the Caped Crusader is coming with one of his best villains playing a key role, as an animation in 2026.

With the release of an Elseworlds story, Aztec Batman: Clash of the Empires this year, and now in 2026, screens will see one of the most intense sagas in the Dark Knight’s history. It will exist outside James Gunn’s DCU canon. DC announced four movies to complete the Batman: Knightfall arc, with the first titled Batman: Knightfall Part One: Knightfall.

The official synopsis: When the mysterious behemoth known only as Bane frees Batman’s entire Rogues Gallery from Arkham Asylum, the Caped Crusader is pushed to his mental and physical breaking point.

The original story arc ran in 1993, divided into three parts: Knightfall, Knightquest, and KnightsEnd. Overall, in the arc, Bane releases all of Batman villains from Arkham Asylum and confronts Bruce Wayne at Wayne Manor. The fight ends with Bane breaking Batman’s back, and this leads him to find a replacement in the erratic Azrael, who starts terrorizing Gotham. Bruce Wayne, in the meantime, works his way back to shape and health and has a showdown with Azrael, reclaiming the mantle.

The story has been referenced, almost, in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy’s, The Dark Knight Rises (2012), but the Azrael part was omitted.

DC hasn’t revealed yet who will voice Bane or any other characters, but one thing’s clear, i.e., Bane is back to be the key antagonist of a Batman flick.

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