Canceled Batman Arkham Knight Follow-Up Concept Art Shows a Grizzled Bruce Wayne

Concept creation from a long-canceled Batman Arkham Knight follow-up acceptable to prima Damian Wayne arsenic the Dark Knight has surfaced online, giving america our champion look yet astatine an aged Bruce.

Project Sabbath, arsenic it was known, was successful improvement astatine Batman Arkham Origins workplace Warner Bros. Games Montreal aft the motorboat of 2015's Arkham Knight, and would person featured 2 Batmen — begetter and son.

Ultimately, however, the task was canceled by Warner Bros. and WB Games Montreal alternatively shifted absorption to motorboat 2022's poorly-received Gotham Knights, a crippled with nary Batmen astatine all.

At the time, Sabbath was planned arsenic Warner Bros' adjacent large Batman game, portion Rocksteady itself explored concepts featuring different characters. Of course, Rocksteady itself circled backmost to its mentation of Batman (sort of) successful its adjacent project, the ill-fated Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

Images from a erstwhile WB Games Montreal creator who worked connected the task person present popped up connected Artstation, featuring a youthful-looking Damian, grizzled and bearded Bruce, positive concepts for Killer Croc and Huntress.

Whether this crippled would person been strictly portion of the Arkhamverse canon has ne'er been firmly established. On the 1 hand, immoderate of the designs present — peculiarly a precise different-looking Killer Croc — suggest this would person been thing of a antithetic take. That said, the aforesaid could beryllium said of Poison Ivy's quality successful Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which decidedly was portion of the Arkham-verse. And, of course, WB Games Montreal did marque Batman Arkham Origins, a prequel that is considered canon to Rocksteady's halfway trilogy.

New conception creation from WB Games Montréal's cancelled 2015 Damian Wayne crippled "Project Sabbath" has surfaced, shared by quality creator Rodrigue Pralier. The pieces intelligibly amusement Damian, an older Bruce, Killer Croc, and Huntress. The benignant and quality designs further enactment the… pic.twitter.com/aRwTD7caYE

This isn't the archetypal clip conception creation from the crippled has deed the internet. Back successful 2021, different erstwhile WB Games Montreal developer posted images of Damian Wayne successful his Batsuit — a sleek outfit with reddish Bat awesome emblazoned connected his chest.

These designs besides showed the aforesaid bearded older Bruce Wayne, though lone wrong his suit — meaning his newly-revealed look was obscured. Still, the designs suggest that, astatine immoderate point, the older Bruce would inactive person suited up during his retirement.

After launching Gotham Knights and providing further improvement assistance to Rocksteady connected Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, WB Games Montreal was downsized successful December 2024, with astir 100 jobs lost. Rocksteady's effort astatine a co-op crippled featuring Batman side-characters was a flop, though the developer is present reportedly moving connected a single-player Batman crippled erstwhile again.

Maybe this volition extremity up yet being the Bruce and Damian Wayne crippled fans person been waiting for?

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