BATMAN: The Dark Knight | The DC Cinematic Universe | Movie 1 | Phase 1 | Ultimate MEGA Pitch

BATMAN: The Dark Knight | The DC Cinematic Universe | Movie 1 | Phase 1 | Ultimate MEGA Pitch

BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT is the first movie in my DC Universe, and he starts off with a bang and a bat.
Hit the jump, to read on.

Editorial Opinion
By DCMickeus - May 20, 2016 07:05 PM EST
Filed Under: DC Comics


PHASE 1 | MOVIE 1 | ULTIMATE MOVIE MEGA PITCH
Cast And Crew



 

DIRECTOR: DAVID FINCHER AND WRITER: PAUL DINI
CAST: JOSH BROLIN/BATMAN. 
ROBIN | LOGAN LERMAN
JOSEPH GILGUN/THE JOKER.
CARLA GUCINO/CATWOMAN
MATT DILLON/TWO FACE
BANE/DAVE BAUTISTA
PATRICK STEWART AS ALFRED
HARLEY QUINN/AMANDA SEYFREID
NIGHTWING/ADAM DRIVER
SUPERMAN/JON HAMM (END CREDITS CAMEO)
SHARLTO COPLEY/SCARECROW
JENA MALONE/ORACLE + BARBARA GORDON
JIM GORDON/ BRYAN CRANSTON
What I Want This Movie To Be:
A '24' movie, with Batman.
Introduction to Batman/Bruce Wayne and his world
The big first installment of my fan-DC universe.
Movie will be long, but the plot will be thrilling and interesting
 

S T O R Y


We start off with an opening montage, showcasing the origin. The backalley, the training around the world, the first tryout of the Batsuit. Teases to the Joker, Riddler and others.
The film starts off with Bruce Wayne driving into the gates of Arkham Asylum. An UPGRADED Arkham Asylum. He stops and gets up on a small stage and speaks to a mic. Then he is cut off, when the police invade the stage and arrest Bruce.
He is taken into interrogation, where finds out someone told he's Batman. He is put into Arkham, as Batman is considered a criminal and insane.
Then he is found by The Penguin, and for revenge. But before his gang beats him, the guards take him into his cell.
Then, after Bruce is sleeping, a gas comes through his cell which leaves him down, sleeping.
Then, after days, we see Bruce sleeping in his cell, where then his cell opens and it's Robin with his gask mask on. He takes Bruce, and into the Batmobile, which is located out of Arkham Asylum. 
He takes him to the Batmobile, which is on the broken down gates, and then a tube comes out of the trunk of the Batmobile, with an extra Batsuit.
He puts it on, then he asks what happened, cause he doesn't remember. All of the major nutcases of Arkham, have broken out. 
Joker, Harley, Two Face, Penguin, Croc all have broken out.
He goes to the police department, where he meets Jim. Jim tells him that Gotham is doomed. 
He says that the Joker is running something called the 'Arkham Night'.  Where all criminals, under his rule, cause havoc into the city. Then, after that a bomb explodes into the GCPD. 
People are injured, Batman faces off with Bane venom-powered Joker thugs, but with his trickery, he beats them, he takes one and interrogates him, by pressing the Bat-mobile wheel onto his head.
 He tells him Scarecrow and the Joker have made a poison made by chemicals and Bane venom that will turn every person in the city, mad. 
He says all the big villains have assembled a plan.
 Then, he feels he will get hurt because told the secrets, then attempts to kill himself, but Batman stops him. 
Then, Batman gathers information from Oracle, for any activity. Then, he says that an explosion has been detected in Ace Chemicals, and then Batman guesses that's where Joker and Crane would be making the poison. 
Then, he goes to Ace Chemicals, with factory workers outside of the windows, hanged. The image is horrific and brutal. Then, he gets inside, and sees that big chemical vats are being used for the poison, then some of Crane's thugs attack him, he beats them.
He researches the place, and then gets locked up in a room by Crane, who's there and then Crane opens the gas and lets Batman choke.
In a flashback, we see Crane as a psychologist in the opening of Arkham Asylum, Bruce inspects the place, as he funded it. Then, he shows them the cells, which are made out of strong material. Bruce and Crane look at each other, talking about morals. Bruce knows there's something wrong with Crane, but can't get his finger on it.
Then,  we return to Ace Chemicals, where Harley Quinn (Amanda Seyfried) has tied up the Batman upside down and has tied him over a vat of chemicals.
 She says the Joker has infected himself with something, and Quinn is pissed that Batman has taken her precious Mr. J into doing that to himself, she plans to make him feel the pain Mr J is feeling, by dumping him into the chemicals. 
Bats cuts the rope with Bat-A-rangs from his pocket and uses the grappling hook  so not to fall into the vat. Then, Batman takes Harley when she tells him where the Joker is.
He's hiding in an abandoned building  with a huge clock placed in it. He enters the place silently, beats goons and finds the Joker's room. Oracle calls him, and says that Killer Croc has gone rampage in the streets, then after that, he is blinded by the Joker as he throws acid in his face. 
The Joker speaks to him, he says that the 'Arkham Night' is his best party yet. Gotham is going downhill. 
Then, he takes the tube from his bed and places it into his hand, then Batman punches Joker away, but he acts like the doctor, and as he goes to paralyze him with a poisonous syragne, Robin breaks in and beats the Joker and Harley.  
Robin takes Joker and Harley, as GCPD come in and arrest them. 
Batman goes to Killer Croc, to stop him.
He arrives on the center, which is filled with cars and buses escaping, since all the nutjobs of Gotham have escaped. 
A bus with men,women and children is assaulted by a bunch of Joker venom-infected gang who assaults the bus, and then Batman arrives, beating them. But they have an advantage, and deliver the Batman to Killer Croc, who's able to speak.
"Bats" He says then Batman has an all out fight with the thugs and Killer Croc, Nightwing comes to help, when told from Oracle to help. He beats the thugs and helps Batman to tie up Croc. 
He is called by Oracle, who says to him and Batman to come to the Bat-cave, where she's heading.
We turn to Barbara, who with the help of the driver gets into the cab, then while sh enters she tells the location she wants to go. Then, the driver drives into a dark corner, where he smiles to her, then puts a gun to his face, then Scarecrow opens the door, and takes her.
Dick and Bruce arrive into the Bat-cave. They call Barbara, where Crane's voice is heard. He says that he has Barbara. Alfred tells Bruce that the Batwing is prepared for flight. Finding Crane will be easy. 
Then, they locate Crane, and Alfred flies the Batwing to the building, and then Batman breaks into the building and beats Crane's thugs.
Meanwhille, we see the Joker in the S.W.AT van. He talks to the officers holding him, they all say to him to shut up, then he attacks one of them, and uses his gun to shoot all of them, dead. In mere seconds, then Harley Quinn cabs the driver and takes the wheel.
While she drives, she comes across Two Face and his gang in the street, with Harvey flipping his coin, waiting for the van. They stop, and the Joker steps out of the van.
Harvey puts the gun to Joker's face. Reminding to him, what he did to Harvey, cutting his face off. He tells that he has the Batman in his hands, Harvey accepts to help him kill the Batman, since he feels rage for Batman also since he didn't even try to save him from the Joker.
But he promises the Joker, he'd be dead by the end of all this.  Then, we see in the place Barbara is being held, then he faces Crane, who helds her in a big quarantine. 
Then, makes Barbara shoot herself in front of Batman and Nightwing. Robin knocks out Crane cold and  arrives and sees Barbara dead and he's shocked.
Then the Joker, Harley and Two-Face arrive, then Batman jumps on the Joker, punching him. Nightwing faces off with Two Face.
Batman takes Joker in, with Two Face beaten. He poisons Batman, then he shows to Bats that the Barbara that shot herself was nothing but a crazy actress, as she stands up, leaves the quarantine, and wipes the lipstick and puts out the wig.
Batman is enraged. Joker tells him the poison has spread through putting it in water supplies, which innocent people have been infected, and it will make them crazy, infecting their system. 
Then, Bane faces off with Batman. He holds Batman to the wall, choking him. He pushes Nightwing and Robin away, he's over-powered with venom. Then, Batman throws a Bat-A Rang cutting his tubes, letting him become a skeleton.
Then, the Joker had time to get away, and grabs the real Barbara, who's mouth is duck-taped.
Then, Batman, Nightwing and Robin chase the Joker to the roof, where he is holding Barbara, then Batman tells him to let her go. Then the Joker does...of the roof.
 
He throws the woman off the roof, and Batman dives in, while Nightwing and Robin get the Joker. 
Bats catches the woman before she drops, but she reveals to be Harley Quinn, who shoots Batman. Bats pushes her off, and ties her. Then Nightwing gets the Joker, and alarms Batman about it. He tells them to go get the police and deliver the Joker to them, once and for all. Then, he will rescue Barbara.
He goes inside holding Harley Quinn, then he puts her in a room, to stay there. Harley tries to seduce Batman, but fails. Then, he goes to the room Barbara is held by Firefly. 
Then, he beats Firefly down. He takes Barbara and escapes. The Joker is locked down, for good, so is Harley and Two Face. 
Then, Batman gets news that the poison has spread, and people are going crazy. Gotham is doomed. 
Then, the lights at the department are shut down and Clayface is revealed to be involved, he puts Batman down. Then beats other officers, and lets Joker and Harley escape. Two Face escapes and kicks Batman. Then, puts a gun to the Joker. 
Then, Nightwing comes down, and Clayface beats him.
Clay, Joker, Harley and Dent take Batman. 
Then, Batman wakes up with his mask off. He is in front of his parent's graves, then, the grave of his mother is open and someone must have dug it out, then Clayface and Dent are behind him and throw him down.
Then, Clayface throws the dirt over the grave, leaving Bruce there. He sees Martha's skeleton, he then has flashbacks of that night. 
Then, he uses his fist and the knifes in his arm-pad to break out.
Then, The Joker has assembled everyone of the villains. There, Catwoman sits at the bar of the warehouse, with the Joker at the warehouse, on stage, talking. He talks about Batman, then says all the villains should charge into Gotham, and cause mayhem. 
Then, we get back to Bruce, who's escaped, his hand bleeding. Then, Alfred drives into the building where the Joker and the others, Batman jumps right in, thugs overpower him for a moment, then he beats all of them to a bloody pulp. He goes for the Joker, but Batman faces off with Clayface, who then is holding Batman by the neck, killing him, but then Nightwing throws a bomb inside of Clayface, who explodes! BOOM!
Then, the Joker and Harley escape! The others fight against the Batfamily of Batman, Robin and Nightwing. Then, Bruce makes the Batmobile drive in, and shoot all the men.
Then, he goes after the Joker, while Nightwing and Robin clear the place up from the thugs, and de-activate the gas bombs.
The Joker and Harley take their car and drive around Gotham, shooting and driving as they please, then Batman follows them with the Batmobile, crashing places, the Joker mobile is hit by a Batman rocket, which makes it crash. Then, the Joker throws acid into Bat's batmobile, which ruins it's tires, and system. Then, the car crashes. The Joker takes his gun, and keeps SHOOTING the Batmobile, to get Batman. 
Then, as he stops shooting,  The Batman emerges from the Batmobile and punches him. He defeats Harley and Joker. He takes them inside. But then, he feels weak. Joker tells him that he spread toxin to Batman's system when they fought earlier. The GCPD come in, and take the Joker. But the toxin has spread. Batman takes out the big rafts with toxin in them in Joker's own chemical factory. 
He sees different cases, and the GCPD assign doctors to cure the people affected. He is ready to protect Gotham again. Then, in the final scene, he flies over Gotham and into the camera.




 
A F T E R   C R E D I T S 
 

We are at the north pole. It's beautiful. The sight one can dream off. We see the ice fall, and the sun rise. 
Then, a figure walks on top of the thin ice, we are far away, we can't see who it is. All we can make out is a cape and a steady figure of standing. Then, we see who it is. With voice-over from Jor-El, saying the great values of how his son will become great one day, a big strong man, to help others and believe in truth and justice.
Then, we see Kal-El A.K.A Superman in full costume.
(Note: the suit i imagined is basically the MOS suit, but brighter, and more the iconic red and blue, the cape is long and has the 'S' logo behind it. 
Then, he looks at his suit. Ready to unleash his true potential. Then, he kneels, puts his fist to the ground, then JUMPS and FLIES up in the air, we  see him fly around in the sky, he rises  up and flies to the sky.

 

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TucksFrom2015
TucksFrom2015 - 5/20/2016, 8:13 PM
The plot sounds like a mix between Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, which is hardly a bad thing. But since it worked so well as a video game, as a movie it might not have quite the same impact, although I can't wait to see a Batman movie with more than three villains in it. As for the after credits stinger, the whole point of these scenes are to reward the most dire fans for their patience after sitting through a credits scroll, so having it be a full-blown action scene with dialogue AND introduces a new character for future movies, seems like something you wouldn't want half of your audience missing out on because they walked out too early. And about the dialogue at the end, it's not that it's bad per se, but having Superman flat out state his mission statement in the most self aware way possible... it reminded me of the Chris Stuckmann rewrite

FlyntCoal
FlyntCoal - 5/21/2016, 8:44 AM
I love everything about it except Driver as Nightwing. He just doesnt fit the description of Dick Grayson. I know it may be shallow but he's supposed to be a confident lady killer and I dont get that vibe from Driver. Ol' Kylo isnt ugly and he's a great actor but he just feels like someone who isn't bursting with confidence or vibrancy.

Also, in your alternate reality, when did these come out? Because Jon Hamm and Josh Brolin are well into their forties now. Would these have come out in 2008-now?
LivingWeapon
LivingWeapon - 5/22/2016, 12:53 PM
Man, this is detailed AF. Great job, dudex as always. Driver's just always seemed like a decent Grayson to me.
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