DC Films Universe - Batman 80th Anniversary Edition; BATMAN: KNIGHTFALL

DC Films Universe - Batman 80th Anniversary Edition; BATMAN: KNIGHTFALL

With Batman’s 80th anniversary on the horizon, I’ve put together a Bat-Centric slate of films set for release in 2019 under Warner Bros. DC Films Universe banner. FIRST of a FOUR part series!

Editorial Opinion
By DetectiveCinema - Oct 21, 2017 07:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Fan Fic
 
 
DC   FILMS   UNIVERSE   19’
B A T M A N   8 0 T H   A N N I V E R S A R Y   E D I T I O N
 
 
  • Batman: Knightfall 9 March, 2019
  • Birds of Prey 15 June, 2019
  • Gotham City Sirens 21 September, 2019
  • Nightwing 14 December, 2019
 

 
D   C      C   O   M   I   C   S  '
B  A  T  M  A  N
K    N    I    G    H    T    F    A    L    L
 
 
D I R E C T E D   B Y
Matt Reeves
 
 
P L O T   S Y N O P S I S
After crippling the Police Commissioner’s daughter, The Joker is captured and escorted back to Arkham Asylum by Batman. Meanwhile, Wayne Enterprises’ cryogenicist Victor Fries has his stasis operation shut down, killing his wife snd sending him down a dark path of revenge .
 

Ben Affleck … Bruce Wayne / Batman
 
Woody Harrelson … Victor Fries / Mr. Zero
 
J.K. Simmons … James Gordon
 
Glendoline Christie … Ellen Yindel
 
Ray Liotta … Ferris Boyle
 
Keri Russell ... Nora Fries
 
Jeremy Irons … Alfred Pennyworth
 
Dakota Johnson … Barbara Gordon
 
Jared Leto … The Joker
 
Cameo: Finn Wittrock … Jason Todd (uncredited)
 
 

C H A R A C T E R   B I O
 
BRUCE WAYNE // BATMAN
After witnessing the death of his parents, Bruce Wayne trained extensively to achieve mental and physical perfection, mastering martial arts, detective skills, and criminal psychology in order to protect Gotham City.
 
VICTOR FRIES // MR. ZERO
Formerly a scientist working in cryogenics, he dedicated his life to finding a cure for his wife's terminal illness. Following a horrible lab accident, he became dependent on sub-zero temperatures to survive and began using his experimental inventions to commit crimes in order to fund his research.
 
JAMES GORDON
Commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department, James Gordon is one of Batman's greatest allies. He is a controversial political figure in Gotham City because of his willingness to work alongside the vigilante.
 
ELLEN YINDEL
Ellen Yindel is the G.CP.D's most promising Police Captain. She's poised to succeed Gordon as Commissioner following his retirement, despite her strong opposition to Caped Crusdaer’s vigilantism.
 
FERRIS BOYLE
Ferris Boyle is a Wayne Enterprises’ employee responsible for the death of Victor Fries wife, Nora. He shut down Victor’s lab which is keeping her in a cryogenic state.
 
NORA FRIES
The wife of scientist Victor Fries, Nora was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Victor has her kept in cryogenic state while he searches for a cure, however when his lab is shut down her life support is taken off.
 
ALFRED PENNYWORTH
Alfred Pennyworth is Bruce Wayne's trusted butler. Having worked for Thomas and Martha Wayne before they were deaths, he raised Bruce from an early age.
 
BARBARA GORDON
The daughter of Gotham City's Police Commissioner, Barbara Gordon follows Batman’s cases and is a detective in her own right. She maintains a civilian identity as a librarian.
 
THE JOKER
The Joker is Batman's arch-nemesis. An agent of chaos known for his malicious plots, wacky gadgets and insidious smile.
 
JASON TODD
Formerly a partner of The Dark Knight, Jason Todd was brutally murdered by the Joker. His death remains Batman’s greatest failure.
 

 
T H E M E S
 
Batman: Knightfall explores the theme of loss and how our main characters (Bruce Wayne, Victor Fries and James Gordon) deal with it in different ways. 
 
Bruce Wayne is forever trying to come to terms with the loss of his parents, which results in his transformation into Batman. He must also deal with his failings as the CEO of his parents company Wayne Enterprises and his failings as mentor to Dick Grayson but moreover to Jason Todd, the former Boy Wonder who was murdered at the hands of The Joker and Harley Quinn.
 
Victor Fries struggles to deal with the loss of his wife Nora Fries. He blames Wayne Enterprises for her death, and Ferris Boyle in particular for turning off her life support. When a lab accident makes him dependent on sub-zero temperates he begins to lose touch with humanity. Driven only by revenge, he turns into a cold, sadistic psychopath.
 
Police Commissioner James Gordon must come to terms with the abuse his daughter suffered at the hands of The Joker which has left her paralysed from the waist down and in a comatose state. Despite the ordeal, Gordon's sanity remains intact and he insists that The Joker still be brought in by the book in order to show him and the people of Gotham that law still way works.
 

 
P O T E N T I A L   S E Q U E L S 
 
Batman: Knighthood (2020)
Batman faces a new foe who uses The Joker's old alias, the Red Hood.
 
Batman: Knights End (2021)
A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 50-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. 
 

 
Like, comment and criticise below. Would love to hear your thoughts!
 
Stay tuned, MrMurdock. 

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CapnMurphy2021
CapnMurphy2021 - 10/22/2017, 12:00 AM
huh?
DetectiveCinema
DetectiveCinema - 10/22/2017, 12:16 AM
@CapnMurphy2021 -
MRVN
MRVN - 10/22/2017, 9:51 PM
Great casting man. I honestly wouldn't have picked Woody Harrelson if you gave me a year to put it together, but seeing him up there and thinking on some of his past work...all I can say is bravo. The themes you bring up, loss and revenge, are really interesting and I would love to see some more details (Is Freeze totally removed from the lives that he takes/damages in his bid for revenge or does he have a "no innocents" code that parallels Bruce's? Would there be a moment/scene where Gordon & Bats/Bats & Freeze reflect on loss and revenge and how they see it - like the diner scene in "Heat" even though I have no idea how that would work LOL) Very interesting stuff. Keep up the good work.

Also, the pictures are working on my end
DetectiveCinema
DetectiveCinema - 10/23/2017, 5:30 AM
@mtwiggs - Harrelson as Fries came to me after seeing him in War for the Planet of the Apes as well as looking back at his work in True Detective.

I think I'd have Fries seeking revenge on his employer, Wayne Enterprises. This leads to him murdering Ferris Boyle, having a confrontation with Alfred Pennyworth in search of Bruce Wayne, and a confrontation with Bats. Freeze could subdue Batman (freezing his arm to something/creating a barricade between the two) and tell him he's not going to stop, and that if he gets in his way again he won't hesitate ala 'Heat' (which is a swell idea, I love that!).
SimplyAz
SimplyAz - 10/23/2017, 2:17 AM
A good take on the characters and you picked each role well, that I completely agreed with them.

The pics don't work on my end.
MikeZ
MikeZ - 10/23/2017, 7:59 PM
- Really not feeling Woody Harrelson as Mr. Freeze. I don't care if he did great in War of the Planet of the Apes (he did, don't get me wrong) or True Detective. He just doesn't scream Victor Fries.
- I think Gwendoline Christie would be better off as Big Barda. As Ellen Yindel, it seems rather reductive to cast her there.
- I'm glad people cast Ray Liotta even though people don't acknowledge him anymore.
- My thoughts of Keri Russell as Nora Fries would be the same as your Ellen Yindel choice. After The Americans, she's got quite a bit to prove even in her 40's.
- Wow, Dakota Johnson? People hate her guts. The word "nepotism" is brought up when people talk about her. I guess I wouldn't mind her as Barbara. But what about Willa Fitzgerald from Scream. Apparently she's playing a NAVY pilot in a TV version of Behind Enemy Lines, and she's fantastic with psychodrama after Scream. Also, she's a better actress.



Oh, and what happened to your other fancasts for Gotham City Sirens and Nightwing?
DetectiveCinema
DetectiveCinema - 10/23/2017, 9:49 PM
@MikeZ - Fair enough in regards to Fries, each to their own. I wouldn’t have considered him before War. I think he’s a great actor who could create a character that the audience could really sympathize with. Fries is a really tragic character who’s loss really mirrors Batman. I’m curious, who you would your pick/s for the role be?

I’m not sure what you mean when you say reductive to cast her as Yindel. As in it’s role too small for an actor of her calibre? Because in theory her role would grow over the sequels to where she replaces Gordon as police commissioner.

Liotta is great, his more recent work in The Place Beyond The Pines and Killing Them Softly particularly.

Dakota Johnson does get a bad wrap. I can understand it in regards to Fifty Shades (which even Dornan is terrible in) but all her other work has been really solid in my opinion. I’ve seen Fitzgerald in horror tv series but nothing about her screams (pun intended) Bab’s for me.

In regards to the later pitches I’ve decided to go into a bit more detail with each one, one at a time. Hopefully it doesn’t come across as excessive to split it into 4 parts?

Thanks for the feedback my man, you got anything in the works yourself?
MikeZ
MikeZ - 10/24/2017, 6:45 PM
@MrMurdock - Honestly, I wouldn't know who to cast as Mr. Freeze. That'll be a tough one.

Let me rephrase my statement: I'm just not really convinced of Gwendoline as a good choice for Yindel. As I said, she's a good enough size for Big Barda. And she wears battle garbs convincingly.

Well, when the Behind Enemy Lines TV series comes out, we'll see. I would recommend Willa to cram on computer classes and maybe take up police training beforehand. But other than that, she has the psychological aspects down for Barbara.

If I ever get around to it, I'll do a Street Fighter fancast. So far, I have Suki Waterhouse as Cammy White and Jason Momoa as T. Hawk.
ELAYEM
ELAYEM - 10/24/2017, 9:36 AM
Love it man, good work. Woody Harrelson is a left-field choice for Freeze but now that I think about it he would kill it. Also I see the Matt Reeves - Woody Harrelson connection from Apes, which is smart. I always had the exact same idea of changing from Mr. Freeze to Mr. Zero! It’s a little less cheesy especially considering Victor’s last name is also freeze (Fries). Mr. Freeze is overdue for a modern reinvention after Shumaker’s atrocity. Would be interesting to see how it would be pulled off in a more realistic less campy universe.
Great choices on your castings and on theme analysis. With yours and with the DCEU I question the need for a Nightwing solo though. Always seemed like Batman-lite with worse villains. But I always enjoy when Nightwing cameos in Batman stories.
Looking forward to your next articles.
DetectiveCinema
DetectiveCinema - 10/24/2017, 10:16 PM
@Elayem - Freeze is LONG overdue for a reininvention. I can enjoy Batman and Robin for what it is now, I can laugh almost all the way through without getting mad about how badly the characters were.. interpreted. But if we didn’t have Schumaker’s take kill the franchise would we have seen Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilgogy? It’s blessing in disguise really. But I wish they let Burton go ahead with his 3rd Batman flick.

I can understand what you mean in regards to Nightwing, he’ll feature once or twice before his own solo flick to help establish his character.

Cheers man, I’ll shoot you a message when I’ve got the next one up?
ELAYEM
ELAYEM - 10/25/2017, 6:06 AM
@MrMurdock - “But if we didn’t have Schumaker’s take kill the franchise would we have seen Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilgogy? It’s blessing in disguise really. But I wish they let Burton go ahead with his 3rd Batman flick.“

Great point, it all worked out in the end. Yeah I’ve read about Burton’s Batman 3, it couldve been really cool.

Sounds good thanks! Cheers
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