Rick Morales Interview: DC Showcase Shorts
The DC Showcase collection of animated shorts is back with a group of exciting new stories for fan-favorite and underexplored characters. Constantine — The House of Mystery acts as an epilogue to Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, while The Losers sees the military team trapped on an island overrun with dinosaurs, Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth sees its titular protagonist engage in a deadly series of tests in post-apocalyptic earth, and Blue Beetle sends up classic '60s cartoons.
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Ahead of the collection's release, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with producer Rick Morales to discuss the new DC Showcase collection, determining which characters to explore, reuniting with his animation teams and more.
Screen Rant: I'm excited to get to chat with one of the the minds behind this whole showcase. Your name has come up with pretty much everybody I've talked to so far in a good way. Can you tell me a little bit about how these shorts really started to develop?
Rick Morales: There was talk about doing more shorts; they'd been done in the past, and Warner Bros. wanted to do another slate of them. They came to me and asked if I might be interested, and then that led to conversations with Jim Krieg. He already had some thoughts about wrapping up Apokolips War with the Constantine story idea that he had, so that became basically, «Okay, so that's our anchor for this slate of shorts here. What are we going to fill it with?»
Jim had a master plan about things that he was doing, but in talking about it, we narrowed it down to characters that we love and that we want other people to see and hopefully love as well. Kamandi, I think, was one of the earliest decisions to
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