Posted by cdemink on August 11 2008 19:20:44
Joss Whedon spoke with MTV News and revealed some interesting tid-bits about his pitch for what would have been the Batman re-boot movie eventually assigned to Christopher Nolan.
Apparently Whedon's version would have been more grounded with a brand new villain never before seen in the comic books.
“In my version, there was actually a new [villain], it wasn’t one of the classics — which is probably why they didn’t use it,” he laughed. “It was more of a ‘Hannibal Lector’ type — he was somebody already in Arkham Asylum that Bruce went and sort of studied with. It was a whole thing — I get very emotional about it, I still love the story. Maybe I’ll get to do it as a comic one day [ed. note: HINT HINT, DC Comics... ].”
But don't get your utility belts in a bunch fanboys, Whedon has nothing but praise for Nolan's version. So there's no need to go out and trash your Buffy DVDs just yet.
You can read the article here
What do you think? Interested on Whedon's take on the Dark Knight? Wonder just how different the two origin movies might have been? Plan on petitioning Whedon to release the script?! Well go over and discuss your letter writing campaign in our BYTB Batman Movie Forum
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Joss Whedon spoke with MTV News and revealed some interesting tid-bits about his pitch for what would have been the Batman re-boot movie eventually assigned to Christopher Nolan.
Apparently Whedon's version would have been more grounded with a brand new villain never before seen in the comic books.
“In my version, there was actually a new [villain], it wasn’t one of the classics — which is probably why they didn’t use it,” he laughed. “It was more of a ‘Hannibal Lector’ type — he was somebody already in Arkham Asylum that Bruce went and sort of studied with. It was a whole thing — I get very emotional about it, I still love the story. Maybe I’ll get to do it as a comic one day [ed. note: HINT HINT, DC Comics... ].”
But don't get your utility belts in a bunch fanboys, Whedon has nothing but praise for Nolan's version. So there's no need to go out and trash your Buffy DVDs just yet.
You can read the article here
What do you think? Interested on Whedon's take on the Dark Knight? Wonder just how different the two origin movies might have been? Plan on petitioning Whedon to release the script?! Well go over and discuss your letter writing campaign in our BYTB Batman Movie Forum