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A year ago, Jeremy Sisto was starring
as a private investigator with deep psychological scars in
Kidnapped. This season, Sisto joined the Law & Order
legacy of actors as a detective with a haunted past.
{sidebar id=1}Its seem only
natural that his next starring role would be as Batman. Sisto fills
the vocal role of the Dark Knight in the highly-anticipated release
of Justice League: The New Frontier, the second DC Universe
original animated PG-13 film presented by Warner Premiere, produced
by Warner Bros. Animation and distributed by Warner Home Video.
Based on the
landmark DC Comics graphic novel by Darwyn Cooke and produced by
animation legend Bruce Timm, "Justice League: The New Frontier"
features an all-star voice cast led by Sisto, Kyle
MacLachlan (Superman), David Boreanaz (Green Lantern), Neil
Patrick Harris (The Flash), Lucy Lawless (Wonder Woman), Kyra
Sedgwick (Lois Lane), Brooke Shields (Carol Ferris), Miguel Ferrer
(Martian Manhunter) and Phil Morris (King Faraday). The film
will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on February 26, 2008. The HD
DVD edition will be available March 18, 2006.
I tend to (get cast) as dark
characters, and I'm more drawn to those characters anyway theyre
usually more interesting, Sisto said. Plus, I got this deep
voice from my father, and the combination of the timbre of my voice
and my inflections tends to make people feel that there's some
darkness there.
Sisto particularly enjoys the role
Batman takes in Justice League: The New Frontier, emphasizing
that the character arc of the Caped Crusader gave the job added
flavor.
I think Batman is a great character
in that he has a lot of internalization, and his heroics come from a
dark place, Sisto said. You can have fun with that side of him,
sort of showing his dislike for people and yet, at the same time,
he's all about helping people and doing good for society.
Batman is a bit of a loner. Hes
very intuitive and, while the rest of the Justice League are using
their super powers, he uses his detective skills to get to the heart
of the matter and, in this case, help save the world. Throughout the
course of the story, though, I think he learns that it's not such a
bad thing to have friends.
Sisto has logged guest voiceover
credits on American Dad, Duckman and The Wild
Thornberrys, but Justice League: The New Frontier puts Sisto
in his first animated film and his first super hero role. Unable to
join the majority of the cast in the initial ensemble record, Sisto
created his vocal rendition of Batman while performing alone in a
sound booth in New York City. It was appropriate for the character, a
super hero that prefers to work solo in Gotham.
When you're doing a voice for an
animated project, you don't have the props and the different visual
things that make it a bit easier for an actor to make a scene real
for you, he said. So you're stuck in a booth alone and you're
kind of forced to use your imagination a little bit more.
Sisto enjoyed comic books and super
heroes during his youth, but he admits he was eventually led astray
from the fanboy path.
When I was a kid, I liked Superman;
when I got a little older, I liked Wolverine; and then I found
girls, he said.
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