Warner Bros. Discovery is adapting one of Batman’s most iconic comic book storylines into a new animated movie trilogy for streaming platforms and the home video market.

Filings from the Entertainment Identifier Registry system have unveiled that Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment are producing Batman: Knightfall: Part 1, which is the story that introduces fierce brute Bane to the Dark Knight rogue gallery. Coming off of helming the three-part Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths movies that have launched this year, WBA’s Jeff Wamester is attached to direct the first film. The filings also indicate a 2024 release window for this pic, and a 60-minute run time. 

Knightfall’s adventure kicks off with Bane releasing all of the maximum-security inmates at Gotham’s Arkham Asylum. After Batman finishes rounding up these escaped criminals, Bane reemerges to “break the bat,” shattering Batman’s spine and forcing Bruce Wayne to name a successor to take over his mantle while he recovers from his injury. 

DC debuted this Knightfall story arc in 1993, bringing together more than 70 individual comic issues across three core chapters (Knightfall, Knightquest and Knightsend) to do so. WBD has translated several of Batman’s iconic comic runs into straight-to-DVD animated features over the past 15 years, including Under the Red Hood (2010), Year One (2011), The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 and Part 2 (2012), The Killing Joke (2016), Hush (2019) and The Long Halloween (2021).