New details revealed on scrapped Batman film

New details revealed on scrapped Batman film

Jetpacks, laser guns, and a man-eating Batmobile?

By AnonymousContributor - Dec 27, 2010 02:12 PM EST
Filed Under: Batman
Source: ComicBookMovie.com

In 1979, Michael Uslan and Tom Mankiewicz wrote a Script for a Live-Action Batman movie. However, due to disagreements between Uslan (Who wanted to make a dark and serious movie) and Mankiewicz (Who wanted to make a fun a light and campy movie), it turned out to be a weird in-between, with a troubled and borderline psychotic Batman who kills people fighting the Penguin and Rupert Thorn alongside Robin.

In this version, Bruce Wayne transforms his family's modest fortune into a multimillionaire company by investing in McDonald's while it was still unknown and literally attracts crowds of sexually promiscuous women as he wins NASCAR races and beats up thugs in dark alleys. However, he is completely oblivious to how sex works and never realizes they want to sleep with him

In this same version, the Penguin kills Robin's parents by training a falcon to land on their pole in the circus, which causes them to lose their balance and fall to their death as Dick Grayson watches. The Penguin and his henchmen also ride jetpacks while firing laser weapons.

Batman's Batmobile alone has a force field, a battering ram, retractable hydrofoil pontoons, armored mudflaps, and a giant horseshoe magnet. In one scene, a thug is dragged to its trunk and never seen again, leading us to believe he died from starvation inside the Batmobile.

In another scene, Batman fights Rupert Thorn in a museum which has been outfitted with giant writing tools for the "American Writers and Writing" convention. As he screams "May God damn your soul, Rupert Thorn!", Batman jumps on the letter "K" (From "KILL") of a giant writing machine, causing Thorn to be thrown inside a giant pencil sharpener where he is sharpened to death as Batman watches with a smile.

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TheZoan
TheZoan - 12/27/2010, 2:48 PM
AWESOME :')
airbeyonder18
airbeyonder18 - 12/27/2010, 4:07 PM
Inconcieveable! They should be executed!
Denn1s
Denn1s - 12/27/2010, 6:05 PM
sounds like a '50s issue of batman. kinda like the '66 series
superotherside
superotherside - 12/27/2010, 7:47 PM
what?

The Joker demotivational
SeaSerpentine
SeaSerpentine - 12/27/2010, 8:03 PM
That sounds worst then Batman and Robin. THANK GOD this was never made!
LP4
LP4 - 12/27/2010, 8:54 PM
This sounds like a joke. Good one "AnonymousContributer" -_-
joekerr93
joekerr93 - 12/27/2010, 9:20 PM
the typewriter part was actually in a different script that came out a few months ago with some almost legit movie with joker, penguin, thorne, robin, and a fake batman

the rest sounds hilarious though, and i actually dont doubt it, i mean, look at some of the ideas they had for superman movies
HAQ
HAQ - 12/28/2010, 6:34 AM
lol
ElBicho
ElBicho - 12/28/2010, 7:29 AM
Did grif write this?

Or is supermike back?
Knightstalker
Knightstalker - 12/28/2010, 8:27 AM
Assuming that this is anywhere close to true, there apparently were a few studio execs that actually had common sense and good taste, otherwise this movie might have been made. Thank God it wasn't.
Fumbles
Fumbles - 12/28/2010, 10:30 AM
ummmm....yea about that
LucasMend
LucasMend - 12/28/2010, 1:39 PM
AlReg
AlReg - 12/29/2010, 11:36 AM
This is kinda old news.
darthbobtarkas
darthbobtarkas - 1/2/2011, 8:39 AM
"In this version, Bruce Wayne transforms his family's modest fortune into a multimillionaire company by investing in McDonald's..." WAITTAMINNIT...WHAT?!DID I READ THAT RIGHT?!
YakeTheSnake
YakeTheSnake - 1/7/2011, 5:03 PM
Ahhh, Tim Burton's early years... LOL! This sounds like bullsh*t. There's no way that anyone thought this was a good idea...
Hellkat1979
Hellkat1979 - 1/8/2011, 1:45 AM
No this whole thing is, unfortunately, true. Never heard the McDonald's part, but the rest... yeah.
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