Batman: The Master Race

Batman: The Master Race is an upcoming 2019 animated superhero film and an adaptation of the comic book The Dark Knight III: The Master Race, and a sequel to the Batman: The Dark Knight Returns animated movie. It is directed by Jay Olivia. Michael Ironside reprises his role as Batman, replacing Peter Weller from the first movie. Three years after the first movie, a resurfaced Batman must continue his mission when an army of villainous Kryptonians are freed from the shrunken city of Kandor.

Plot
Three years after the events of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Gotham City is as peaceful as it's ever been, with crime finally at an all-time low. Bruce Wayne, aka Batman is believed dead following a battle with Superman, who has also mysteriously vanished. Despite Gotham's newfound prosperity, tensions are still high between the United States and other nations despite the diminishing Cold War, and many supervillains have escaped incarceration or resurfaced, to which the Justice League have finally reestablished to protect the world, led by Wonder Woman. Before his disappearance, Clark and Diana sired two children, Lara and Jonathan Kent. Lara has taken her up her father's role alongside her mother, becoming Supergirl.

Lara has constantly hearing voices, and upon investigating, locates the Fortress of Solitude, long thought destroyed. Making her way in, she discovers a shrunken city within a containment field. The voices more clearly explain that this is Kandor, Krypton's capital city, which was liberated from Krypton's destruction and was located by Superman. However, Superman was unable to find a way to restore them to normal size. and turning Ray's shrinking tech against him, plan to to subjugate the Earth, starting by attacking Metropolis. In Gotham, many criminal gangs have resurfaced in light of Batman's absence, to which a caped figure is reported combating the various crimes. Believing Batman has returned, police commissioner Ellen Yindel orders a manhunt for him. In pursuit of the presumed Batman, they apprehend him, only to discover the vigilante is a now adult Carrie Kelly, formerly Robin. Carrie angrily chides Commissioner Yindel's prejudice against Batman, protesting that he did more for Gotham than she could imagine, and is detained. However, she is broken out by Green Arrow and the Sons of Batman, retreating to a new Batcave, meeting an decrepit Bruce Wayne, who has been overseeing Carrie's progress as Batgirl. Bruce has been made aware of the Kandorian uprising, and knowing they have no chance against an entire army of Kryptonians, begrudgingly contacts Wonder Woman in hopes of gaining the Justice League's help. Upon reuniting, Bruce, now remorseful for his blase treatment of them following their past dissolution, asks Diana about Superman's location.

Making their way to the abandoned Fortress of Solitude, Diana reveals Clark has been mysteriously frozen in ice, presumably on purpose as self-inflicted punishment. Taking a sledgehammer, Bruce breaks Clark out of the ice, begrudgingly asking his help against the rogue Kandorians, saying that despite their past slights, he can't do this without him. Superman forgives all, and proposes he reason with the Kryptonians, due to being one of them.

Cast

 * Michael Ironside as Bruce Wayne/Batman
 * Christina Ricci as Carrie Kelly/Batgirl
 * Robin Atkin Downes as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow
 * Matt Bomer as Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman
 * Jennifer Hale as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman
 * Mae Whitman as Lara Kent/Supergirl
 * Lance Henricksen as Lord Quar
 * Nolan North as Baal
 * Justin Chambers as Barry Allen/Flash
 * Roger Bumpass as Ralph Dibny/Elongated Man
 * Maria Canals-Barrera as Commissioner Ellen Yindel
 * Matthew Mercer as Ray Palmer/Atom