The Vigilantes: The Rise of Justice

The Vigilantes: The Rise of Justice is a 2027 Norwegian-Brazilian-American adult animated superhero horror film based on the characters from various other medias.

Produced by EZstudios and distributed by A24, it is the continuation to the minisseries, The Vigilantes, and the 12th installment in the EZverse. It is also considered a spiritual successor to the 2018 superhero film Legends, a work made from one of the producers of The Vigilantes: The Rise of Justice, Ethan Vasquez (also known as RaymanLover), though the "Vigilantes" having no connection whatsoever with the RaymanLover Cinematic Universe.

Written and directed by Eric Zander, the film features an ensemble cast including Hugh Jackman, Daniel Radcliffe, Elle Fanning, Tom Holland, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dave Bautista, Brad Pitt, James McAvoy, Pedro Pascal, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emma Watson, Rami Malek, Joaquin Phoenix, Zendaya and Oscar Isaac.

The film follows the Vigilantes following the task to stop Toffee, a powerful anthropomorphic lizard, from conquering Earth for his overlord Bill Cipher, but whom is actually revealed to be sending a warning for a far-worse threat.

Synopsis
In a world in mourning and still learning to live everyday life together with mutants, Rayman recruits a team of humans and mutants to face a ruthless warlord from the stars determined to conquer Earth whom is revealed at the end, is actually trying to advise the Vigilantes that a serial killer is on loose killing everyone and planning a ritual sacrifice to merge the dimensions of Hell with Earth.

Cast

 * Hugh Jackman as Scott Raymond/Rayman
 * Daniel Radcliffe as Gumball Watterson/Feline Furious
 * Elle Fanning as Penny Fitzgerald/Yellow Fairy
 * Tom Holland as (a fictionalized version of) Ethan Vasquez/Big Bad Wolf
 * Leonardo DiCaprio as Finn Mertens/Plague Doctor
 * Dave Bautista as Trevor Wilson/Globox
 * Brad Pitt as Daniel Mulligan/Kid Cosmic
 * James McAvoy as Dipper Pines/Mystery Hunter
 * Pedro Pascal as Jesse Brooks/Warrior
 * Jake Gyllenhaal as Thomas Haines/Testificate Man; a villager who is deaf but can only speak in his alter-ego form due to his enhanced senses.
 * Emma Watson as Phoebe Ember/Flame Princess; a 24-year-old girl who was born in the Fire Kingdom and eventually moved to USA when she was 14.
 * Zendaya as Ronnie Anne Santiago/La Gata Preta; a 23-year-old Mexican-American girl who eventually joins the Vigilantes in the third act of the film in order to defeat his villainous uncle who betrayed her and her brother as well.
 * Rami Malek as Toffee; the anti-villain of the story who might appear that he wants Earth, but betrays his lord, Bill Cipher, by attempting to reach out a warning to the Vigilantes that a certain serial killer is planning a ritual to merge both Hell and Earth.
 * Joaquin Phoenix as Bill Cipher; an overpowered extradimensional overlord whom is sending Toffee to Earth in order to conquer it, but Toffee ends up betraying him in order to join the Vigilantes to stop Carlos' ritual.
 * Oscar Isaac as Carlos Casagrande/The Backstabber; a Mexican-American psychopathic cannibal serial killer who he and his family betrayed his nephew and niece and him and his family is now planning a ritual to merge Hell and Earth, but is brutally tortured and killed as a punishment by the Vigilantes in the ending scene and the film also slowly reveals Carlos to be the true villain of the story instead of Toffee (making Toffee an anti-villain). This character is meant to describe Ethan's thoughts on his most despised fictional family from a certain television cartoon that he loves.

Production
Right when Ethan was working on a reboot on the Legends, he had been suffering mental problems due to various reasons (being for example: the global pandemic and family issues.)

And because of those problems that Ethan had been suffering, he gave the rights of the RaymanLover Cinematic Universe to a close friend, whom is Norwegian creative director, Eric Zander, creating the new title for the cinematic universe now called the "EZverse".

Right when Eric got the rights to the RLCU recently in Feburary 2023, he decided to reorganize nearly everything that was on the other shared universe in order to create a new one.

Eric also decided to increase the rating of the film from PG-13 to an R-rating (for strong violence, pervasive language, drug content and some sexuality) due to some violent scenes that producer Ethan Vasquez wanted Eric to use for the film, due to Ethan claiming that the scenes were despite being extremely graphic, they were also  "highly important"  for the story since the story despite the superhero genre, is (atleast for Ethan) also meant to dedicate to and describe Ethan's current mental condition, thus making the film also fit in the supernatural horror genre and/or also the psychological thriller genre.