The Nolan BATMAN’S were OK but I just don’t like how BATMAN
seems out of control and not the cool as a cucumber detective I’ve
always seen him be! He’s almost too human in the NOLAN BATMAN
movies. Batman is not out of control! He is the greatest detective the
world has ever seen!
Plus The Bruce Wayne I’ve come to know is not a playboy spoiled rich
kid! I really don’t like how Nolan portrays Bruce Wayne…it doesn’t
go with he way Batman has been written, forever. Bruce Wayne has a
better reputation and personification in the comic books and in Michael
Keaton’s BATMAN.
Bale has two father figures in the Nolan movies and that is not the way
it should be! The last time I checked Alfred works for Wayne, not
tell him what to do, same goes for Lucious Fox! They are his friends
and have his back but they are not his fathers! They don’t lay
ultimatums down to him!
Batman is BAT “MAN”, not BAT-PLAYBOY! He’s BATMAN, not
BAT-“I’m-not-quite-sure-what-I’m-doing-MAN”! This is BATMAN
BEGINS, not Bruce Wayne is a playboy ne’r-do-well at the start!
He never was that, ever! In the Dark Knight he almost seems like
Tony Stark instead of cool ominous night-creature DARK KNIGHT!
BRUCE WAYNE ain’t TONY STARK!
And another thing! I really hate, the TUMBLER! BATMAN’S car is
exactly that…A CAR! Not a military super-Humvie that comes apart
and becomes a super-motocross bike! The BATMOBILE is a
cool-ass car…an AUTOMOBILE. A billionaire like Bruce Wayne
looks more at home in something that looks more like a Lamborghini
than a Landrover! Something like the LAMBORGHINI concept car,
the ANKONIAN. Now it looks like a BATMOBILE “SHOULD” look:
The LAMBORGHINI ANKONIAN.
Man, wouldn’t it have been great to be the test driver!
But the TUMBLER just looks like a pile of slag-metal! U-U-UGLY!!!
The original Keaton car looks way more BATMAN and cool!
The ’68 BATMOBILE is my favorite and looks far better than the TUMBLER.
The BRUCE TIMM BATMOBILE from the animated series, produced & WRITTEN by
PAUL DINI, looks better than THE TUMBLER, even!
BATMAN BEGINS was more like BATMAN…more superhero-like! DARK
KNIGHT was good although it was HEATH who stole the show but he really wasn’t
THE JOKER! Just a thug in crappy clown make-up, albeit the best one I’ve ever seen!
THE JOKER is something far greater than that!
And what’s with this, “BATMAN is in his own world and doesn’t fit into the DC
Superverse”? Nolan’s out of his mind on that one! The Nolanverse SHOULD slide
right into the rest of the DCU. Nolan’s doesn’t fit at all! NOT AT ALL!!! It’s
wrong on so many levels! It’s OK to put realism into the DC movies but to make
it as though it’s not a CBM at all is a mistake! All DARK KNIGHT was is a
gangster movie, a kind of a throwback to the ‘40’s gangster movies, with a
high-tech vigilante in a goofy outfit trying to stop him! I mean JOKER out there
in the street with a Tommy gun trying to mow Bats down, in this day and age?
Is that the best tech THE ONE AND ONLY JOKER can come up with? Come on,
give us a break!
There’s no way that Nolan’s BATMAN could ever fit into the JUSTICE LEAGUE,
NO WAY! It would be incredulous, as in, “just wouldn’t hold water”!
So if I was the writer and the director of the “REAL” BATMAN he would have a
REAL BATMOBILE and a REAL BATCYCLE and a REAL BATPLANE and
he would fit into the DCU. He would be a little older and in control.
I gave my movie a little name:
BATMAN: DARK DETECTIVE
Or for short:
BATMAN:DD
And this is the cast:
ERIC BANA is capable of outstanding performances (STAR TREK, MUNICH,
TROY, BLACK HAWK DOWN). He would be great as the master detective and
Caped Crusader who is just a bit on the creepy side (see his VULCAN NERO in
STAR TREK). And he’s just as tall as Superman, the way it SHOULD be!
BATMAN (BRUCE WAYNE) – ERIC BANA, 6’2½”, 41
ALFRED PENNYWORTH – TERENCE STAMP, 6’
COMMISSIONER GORDON is a tall strapping older man with a square jaw and
a tough as nails demeanor!—WILLIAM HURT fits the roll like a hand-in-glove!
COMMISSIONER JAMES GORDON – WILLIAM HURT, 6’2”
No BATGIRL, just EMMA as JAMES GORDON’S teenage genius daughter.
BARBARA GORDON – EMMA STONE
DENNIS HAYSBERT played the PRESIDENT on 24, I think he can play BRUCE
WAYNE’S business manager and confidante! I sure wouldn’t ever tell Dennis he
couldn’t! lol
LUCIOUS FOX – DENNIS HAYSBERT, 6’4 ½”
JANUARY JONES can play the TV Talk Show Host/Journalist, VICKI VALE, very
well indeed! And she’s beautiful enough to be believable as BRUCE WAYNE’S love
interest (Unlike Jake’s quite homely sister!).
VICKI VALE – JANUARY JONES
JOHN CARROLL LYNCH would be perfect for HARVEY BULLOCK. He is good
at playing a slightly seedy type of guy or a downright scary serial killer disguised as
the average nice guy-next-door (Which most serial killers are.). He’s also adept at
playing cops and men in-charge!—SHUTTER ISLAND, GRAN TORINO, ZODIAK
HARVEY BULLOCK – JOHN CAROL LYNCH, 6’3”
SUPERMAN would be a cameo to set-up the JLA! (My BATMAN actually fits into the
rest of the DCU & THE JLA!)
SUPERMAN (CLARK KENT) [CAMEO] – JIM CAVIEZEL, 6’2”, 41
VILLAINS:
THE JOKER – CRISPIN GLOVER
HARLEY QUINN (DR. HARLEEN QUINZEL) – KRISTEN BELL
I really liked AARON ECKHART as HARVEY DENT in THE BLACK KNIGHT.
I’d love to cast him as Harvey in this movie but he is forever Nolan’s HARVEY!
I think MICHAEL WEATHERLY would be great as the good-guy turned insane
twisted dark character. I know a lot of you want him as a hero but he would be
perfect for HARVEY DENT!
TWO-FACE (HARVEY DENT) – MICHAEL WEATHERLY, 6’2”, 41
Guys, you can’t tell me you wouldn’t want to see Jessica’s butt stickin’ out of that outfit!
I want her for CATWOMAN not WONDER WOMAN! She really doesn’t fit WONDER-
WOMAN! But she sure looks lithe and feline, to me!
CATWOMAN (SELENA KYLE) – JESSICA BIEL
THE PENGUIN is a criminal in a tuxedo, not a deformed mutant with flipper-
fingers! All Paul needs is the prosthetic pointy nose! He’s a damm fine actor!
THE PENGUIN (OSWALD CHESTERFIELD COBBLEPOT) – PAUL GIAMATTI