Since the series never actually reached pre-production or casting, it is unknown who would have starred in the show. Tollin/Robbins bought the rights to produce the series, and while HBO began negotiating about possible broadcasting rights, The WB Television Network loved the idea and knew it would be the next big franchise on their network, to pair with the then-new Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off Angel. According to McCanlies, everyone knows the origin of Batman, but what was never answered in comics or any media were the questions of "why and how".
The supporting characters included a grandfather-type, two-faced friends, only one trustful cop, and an empire the hero would inherit.
In 1999, roughly a year after seeing the script he wrote for The Iron Giant get released, Tim McCanlies pitched to Tollin/Robbins Productions a 62-page pilot script for a TV show revolving around the teenage years of Bruce Wayne, the future Batman. From 2014 until 2019, Fox aired Gotham, which focuses on a young Bruce Wayne and James Gordon, as well as the origin stories of several Batman villains such as Riddler, Penguin, Poison Ivy and The Joker, among others. The concept would later be rethought and turned into the television series Smallville, this time focusing on a young Clark Kent before he became Superman. The idea was conceived as a pitch from screenwriter Tim McCanlies in late 1990s, and went as far into development until being shelved in favor of, at that time, the planned film Batman: Year One.
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