More good news for Batman fans
May 22, 2004 by Vic Holtreman
Looks like everything is still on track for a movie that does justice to The Dark Knight. From an interview with David Goyer, who wrote the first draft of the screenplay for the in production film: Batman: Intimidation Game (Title is subject to change)….
?My whole life, all I wanted to do was write a Batman movie,? says Goyer. ?It was excruciating for me because here I was being offered to work with an amazing director, but time-wise there was no way I could do it. But his agent called back and said, ?You have to do it.?? By negotiating to only do a first draft, with Nolan rewriting and revising from there, Goyer got his dream and the result is a Batman movie the writer thinks fans are going to eat up. ?It?s the most faithful to the comic books and it certainly darker than the Schumacher films,? admits Goyer? ?It treats the story seriously and it?s also quite romantic. We were determined to create a new classic and we treated the subject matter seriously.?
A bit about why Ra’s and The Scarecrow are the villains….
?We weren?t sure what villains we wanted to use, but we knew it should be villains that hadn?t been used in the films,? says Goyer. ?At the same time we didn?t want to make any up. If you look at the rogues gallery, the ones that hadn?t been used were Scarecrow and Ra?s Al Ghul. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to bring those characters in. We knew we were going to do an original story, but if we do this right, we can then reintroduce the rogues gallery the audience has met before in the movies, but in a new way.?
Very very cool.
Source: Batman-on-Film.com
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Well, I must admit, I was skeptical when I heard that another Batman movie was in the works. However, the more I’m hearing about the development on this one, the more impressed I am. When people like Schumacher run a franchise into the ground, and someone else chooses to continue the franchise, it needs to go in a completely different direction. It sounds like that’s exactly what Nolan and Goyer are doing.
I don’t know if this is just me, but I’ll kind of miss having a villain who appeared in the campy 60′s TV show. At least in my mind, it was easy to confuse Danny DeVito’s Penguin with Burgess Meredith, just as I often confused Cesar Romero with Jack Nicholson’s Joker. I don’t know if “confused” is the right word, because they didn’t look the same, but they acted mostly the same, so the characters were throwbacks of sorts. If Scarecrow or Al Ghul ever appeared in the 60′s show, I don’t remember seeing them. Still, that could be a good thing, especially if they cast those roles wisely.
I kind of miss the “environmentally conscious” Batman who insisted on fastening his seatbelt before he chased after the bad guys in his gas guzzler.
Brian
The problem with the Batman movies was exactly the fact that they descended into “camp”. Camp can be ok if you do it intentionally, but if it turns out that way unintentionally… ouch.
And no, the villains you mentioned never appeared in the TV show.
Vic
That’s a very good point. There’s a distinct difference between 60′s camp and 1997 camp.
Brian