Because it was no longer set in the DCAU, was there much editing and re-writing needed?
The storyline didn’t change very much. The characters changed a bit. Some of the motivations changed. Mostly what I did was cut out stuff that was intended to set up the mysterious new “Justice League Unlimited” show, which later enjoyed 39 episodes, but at the time we started, we were leading into [“JLU], so there was a lot of stuff that was supposed to erase questions. I took that out, but I’d say 90 to 95 percent of it is the same story. With Kevin Conroy no longer Batman and George Newbern no longer Superman, did the character portrayals and actual scripting change at all? No. Actually, when I wrote it, I didn’t know who would be playing the characters. It wasn’t like, “How would William Baldwin handle this?” [Laughs] I’m writing Batman, and certainly the Batman is informed by the “Justice League Unlimited” Batman that I wrote, that’s the voice of Batman that I hear in my head, even when I’m writing the comics. They made very strong impressions on me, so I am sort of thinking of th
