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Batman: The Animated Serieswas a truly one-of-a-kind show that received worldwide love and fame. The series writer Henry Gilroy was praised for his writing skills that helped create the 2-D version of Batman into a full-fledged character with depth and intensity.
At that time, the U.S. military was not looking good because of what happened in the Middle East. Wanting to change public opinion, Henry Gilroy helped develop a U.S. military-centric series that went on to become quite a fantastic take on the franchise ofG.I. Joe.
WhenBatman: The Animated SeriesWriter Helped Develop A Military-Centric Seris!
Batman: The Animated Seriesaired from 1992 to 1995 and the world loved it. With iconic voice actorKevin Conroyvoicing the role of Batman oppositeStar Warsfame Mark Hamill as the Joker, the series received high ratings and is still a much-remembered show.
The series writer Henry Gilroy revealed in an interview withSlashFilmthat afterBatman: TAS,he had to develop a U.S. military-centric series that changed people’s opinion about the military. And which franchise would have done the job quite beautifully than the iconicG.I. Joefranchise?
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“Worldwide, the U.S. military was not looked at in a very positive light. We can’t just have these guys be gung-ho, U.S. military guys shooting up everything because of what happened in the Middle East, so we also thought, well, we probably could tell more character-centric, stronger character stories if we focus on a smaller group of Joes, and we have them on the run.”
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The result was the iconic 2010 series titledG.I. Joe: Renegades.Although the series received good reviews, a second season of the show was canceled. Henry Gilroy attributed the cancelation as a direct result of the MCU and the shifting patterns of the audience afterIron Man!
Executives WantedG.I. JoeTo Be More LikeThe Avengers!
With the popularity of Iron Man and the MCU taking shape back in 2008, the world immediately got hooked on it. TheG.I. Joefranchise wasn’t far behind as Henry Gilroy revealed that an executive literally asked him to make the G.I. Joe team more likeThe Avengers!
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“Can you make all of the Joes into Avengers? And I think they were thinking, like, ‘Oh, right, we’re going to give Duke a bow, so he’ll be like Iron Man and Hawkeye.’ All those weird things, where the toys come first and then you write your story after.”
Although the team tried to come up with new stuff, it didn’t work out in the favor of the 2013 film asG.I. Joe: Retaliationreceived poor ratings. On the other hand, the 2010 animated showG.I. Joe: Renegadesreceived a rating of 7.1/10 on IMDB.
The 2010 animated show is available to stream onTubiTVin the U.S.
Visarg Acharya
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
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