Rumored and then talked about for a while, I refused to believe it until some concrete proof emerged, and now we have it. The Hollywood Reporter‘s Heat Vision blog has the scoop on the upcoming animated movie, The Dark Knight Returns.

First, the voice cast:

Peter Weller as Bruce Wayne / Batman

Ariel Winter as Carrie Kelly / Robin

The rest of the announced cast includes Wade Williams as Harvey Dent/Two-Face, (recently badly injured) Michael McKean as Dr. Wolper, and David Selby in an unidentified role (probably Jim Gordon?). No word yet on who is voicing The Joker, Catwoman, Oliver Queen, or Superman.

In addition to the two images from the film(s) shown above, Heat Vision also has a bunch more images from the film, like this one:

Click here for the full gallery of images.

Here’s what else we know:

The book will be broken up into two films: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 and The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2.

The release dates for the films are fall 2012 and early 2013.

The line of films, of which these will be the 15th and 16th entries, was formerly known as DC Universe Animated Original Movies and is now being called DC Comics Premiere Movies.

The films are directed by Jay Oliva, who directed parts of Green Lantern: Emerald Knights and is the storyboard artist on Man of Steel. They are written by Bob Goodman who writes for Warehouse 13 and other DC cartoons.

Update! This isn’t the first time that The Dark Knight Returns has been animated. There, of course, was the tribute in The New Batman Adventures in the episode entitled “Legends of the Dark Knight.” (Thanks to TheGoddamnDeadpool for posting it in the comments and reminding me.)