'Kite Man: Hell Yeah!' Soars With Max Premiere Date
'Kite Man: Hell Yeah!' Soars With Max Premiere Date
The 'Harley Quinn' spinoff is set to arrive on July 18.
Oh yeah, DC TV fans have definitely been eating good this weekend, and now it’s all balanced too. Superman & Lois got its final season premiere date on The CW, and Max released a second teaser for its The Batman spinoff series The Penguin. Amazon Prime Video then unveiled the cast of Batman: Caped Crusader, one of two Batman animated series the streamer picked up after Max scrapped them. Now it seems Max has bookended the reveal with their own DC animated series, Kite Man: Hell Yeah!. Coincidence? Maybe. The premiere date for the Harley Quinn spinoff has been discovered, with a formal announcement incoming.
Apparently, Max’s “What’s New In July 2024” video is already making its way through social media before its official release. Reports have been calling it simply a “promotional reel”, but it’s that time of the month, and the revealing frame matched the style so it seems likeliest. And so it revealed that the series will premiere on July 18.
Indeed, it seems Max will beat Caped Crusader to premiere its next animated series, one-upping one of its abandoned. It also happens to be days before My Adventures with Superman airs its second season finale early July 21. In the series, Harley Quinn’s Kite Man and his girlfriend Golden Glider take their relationship to the next level by opening Noonan’s, a bar in the shadow of Lex Luthor’s Legion of Doom. The bar’s name was originally this shServing drinks to dangerous supervillains was never going to be easy, but sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows insane, and they’re always glad to hide a body.
Matt Oberg reprises his role of Kite Man while Stephanie Hsu steps in for Cathy Ang as Golden Glider. James Adomian continues as Bane, Natasia Demetriou is Malice Vundabar, Janelle James replaces Wanda Sykes as Queen of Fables, Jonathan Banks voices Noonan, Keith David takes over from DCAU repriser Michael Ironside as Darkseid in very apt casting, and Michael Imperioli plays Joe/Moe Dubelz. There’s also Rory Scovel as Gus the Goon and Judith Light as Helen Villigan. The late Lance Reddick managed to take over as Lex Luthor from Giancarlo Esposito, so it remains to be seen what the turnover in the role will look like should there be a renewal. Harley herself is also going to be in the series, seemingly making it one of those series where the main character of the mothership stays actively participating in the spinoff created for another character.
Kite Man: Hell Yeah! is executive produced by Harley Quinn co-creators Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker, and Dean Lorey, in addition to Harley’s voice Kaley Cuoco. Sam Register also executive produces while Lorey serves as showrunner. Halpern and Schumacker had stepped aside as showrunners after Quinn season 3 to focus on this series. It’s produced by Delicious Non-Sequitur, Lorey Stories, and Yes, Norman Productions in association with Warner Bros. Animation.
Source: ComicBook