Writer Stan Berkowitz talks to CBR about his recent work on adapting Superman/Batman: Public Enemies for DC Animation.

CBR News: Coming into this project, were you familiar with the original Jeph Loeb run on "Superman/Batman"?

Stan Berkowitz: No, actually, I wasn’t. At the time, when I was approached, they hadn’t decided on which one to do. So we danced around for maybe a week, week-and-a-half, trying to decide which of the series, that they were going to do. My first choice, oddly enough, was "Absolute Power," the one where Superman and Bruce Wayne become almost like semi-deities and the world kept changing because the kids from the future were changing the timelines. I always like alternate world stories. But the executives at Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Premier and DC [Comics] decided to go in another direction as their first choice.

CBR: But once they landed on "Public Enemies" and you read it, did you see the potential for an animated feature right away?

SB: Absolutely. I think Jeph wrote it that way. He’s a very accomplished TV and screen writer, so I’m sure he thinks in a blockbuster form when he dos his comics, as well as the scripts for other media.

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(Source - CBR)