Joss Whedon's BATMAN Movie Pitch To Warner Bros. Was Like "Talking To A Wall"

A Joss Whedon directed Batman movie? Would've been awesome.

Funny because Angel star David Boreanaz was going top play Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins but turned it down..

you all would be bashing whedon like you bash nolan right now if he ended up directing the batman series.

can anyone tell me why people here think Whedon is a great film maker?? I don't get it.

It would have been a much more faithful movie! Too bad we had to settle for gritty realism without the flare of a proper rogues gallery! Sigh

Whedon Batman film probably would not be all that. Wonder Woman, however, would have been perfect for Whedon. Shame that never got made.

whedon is too dorky for batman. his writing can be really juvenile.

i don't know how much more faithful of an adaptation it would've been because, remember: just because something looks like from the comics does not make either the story, the acting or the direction any better. It's so out of context to say "he would've been better". better in the eyes of who, is all i want to ask. and then people here would be complaining about how Whedon's bataman does not correspond to their interpretation; peiple are never satisfied with what they're given that's the problem.

@darthbobtarkas - i know what he has done in the past. Nothing to write home about.

Yeh what was the bloody pitch? I wanted read his take on a Batman Movie.

I have to say this article was pointless.

I'm not really a Whedon fan, so I can't say I'm broken up about it, but it is a shame that passion projects usually end up either on the back burner/development hell or never get past the pitch stage.

im looking forward to the avengers, but i still think they should have cast Techno Viking as Thor. He fights crime and he dances. Legend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VudJpH-ytH4

Interesting. I wonder what he would have done with it. Still glad he's on Avengers and not Batman, he seems more suited for Avengers.

I'm glad they didn't hire him. His pitch sounded horrible

LOL at the Marvel fans insulting Nolan. This is what Whedons said about Nolan

I just love the respect [Nolan has] for the character and the world,” he said. “I thought Christopher Nolan’s done an amazing job of bringing out the comic book, and I see a lot of movies [coughs “HULK”] — sorry, I had a Hulk stuck in my throat — that don’t really have the aesthetic or the pathos or really get why the comic book works.”

Whedon said he wanted to create an original character...which sounds horrible
And you morons have the audacity to say Nolans deconstructing the comic book genre when Whedon himself deems Nolan great at bringing out Batman

WELP!.. That says it all!!!

meh...

I had my doubts about him and the Avengers at first but it seems like he's going to deliver. I think he's better for the Avengers but not good for Batman.

Who knows how Whedon's Batman would have gone, but for all the whiners about Dark Knight's "realism", as if that's a negative thing, already had the comic-pop flamboyancy in Burton and Schumacher's films. If they are going to do a reboot like they did with Batman Begins, they're going to take a different approach (BB was pretty comic book-y, but the way).

Pretty fashionable to hate on Nolan these days, I guess as a backlash to the popularity of his Batman movies.

My take is to appreciate that particular interpretation of the characters. We've gotten a LOT of great villains thanks to the DK trilogy - Joker, Two-Face, Scarecrow, Ras Al Ghul, Bane, Catwoman, even Zsasz showed up, crime lords like Maroni.

But bitchy fanboys gotta bitch.

"Meta-human" villains in Dark Knight trilogy are lame, even in the comics they're weak characters and lack the narrative impact compared to the more 'reality-based' villains like Joker, Two-Face, Catwoman, ect. 'Metahumans' just wouldn't fit into the aesthetic of the DK trilogy. Heck, Clayface wouldn't have fit into a Schumacher film and Freeze was too far out even for a Burton film.