DC Studios has joined forces with Warner Bros. Pictures Animation (WBPA) and 6th & Idaho to co-produce Dynamic Duo, a new animated feature film that will tell the origin story of Batman’s sidekick Robin. 

New Orleans-based Swaybox Studios has been tapped to handle the animation, and its co-founder and principal Arthur Mintz is directing. Swaybox plans to use its proprietary Momo technology that blends CG animation with puppets, live-action performances and other visual elements. This Robin project will be Swaybox’s first feature film, but the studio has recreated scenes from The Iron Giant and The Rescuers Down Under in order to test Momo in a real workflow. 

Dynamic Duo actually revolves around two different Robin alter-egos who joined Batman’s crusade against crime as orphans earlier in the canon. Dick Grayson made his comic book debut in 1940 as an acrobat who grew up in a traveling circus before meeting the Dark Knight. And then when he struck out on his own in 1983 as Nightwing, street urchin Jason Todd took over as the new Robin after trying to steal the Batmobile’s tires and helping Batman apprehend a gang of young thieves.

According to Forbes, the animated film will pair the two boys up in a theft ring before they eventually change their felonious ways and suit up for crime-fighting.

DC Studios’ James Gunn and Peter Safran are attached as producers on Dynamic Duo, along with Andersson and 6th & Idaho founder Matt Reeves. The script will be penned by Coco and Lightyear screenwriter Matthew Aldrich.