SDCC: Court of Owls Co-Creator Scott Snyder Helped Gotham Knights Devs Understand The Implications Of Kill Batman

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Things are ramping up for WB Games Montreal's Gotham Knights ahead its October 25 release. This weekend, the studio debuted a new Batgirl trailer at San Diego Comic-Con, which showed off Barbara's armored suit and special abilities, including a transforming weapon that effortlessly swaps between a police baton and a set on nunchucks.

Batgirl, along with her Bat-Siblings Nightwing, Robin, and Redhood, have a history with the main antagonist of the Gotham Knights, the Court of Owls, a shadowy cabal of Gotham’s rich elite. The introduction of the Court in 2011's Batman #2 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo recontextualized everything we know about the history of Gotham City and the Bat-Family, whose lives, it turns out, have been influenced and manipulated by the Court all along.

While the Court of Owls have played a role outside of comics, both in the live-action series Gotham and in the DC Animated Universe film Batman vs. Robin, Gotham Knights will expand the lore of the Court further than any previous adaptation. In a roundtable interview at Comic-Con, I asked Gotham Knights creative director Patrick Redding about working with Scott Snyder to develop their own Court of Owls story without having Batman himself to fall back on. Redding says that shortly after DC and Warner Brothers approved the concept of Gotham Knights, he had the opportunity to sit down with Snyder to talk through his vision for the Court.

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"I got to spend a day with him, gave him the initial pitch in advance, walked him through what we had in mind, gave him the overarching backbone of the storyline," Redding explained. "It was fantastic. If you’ve ever watched Scott’s