I am too lazy to look up links or pics but here are a few tidbits I recall about these films:
-Before there was Batman Begins, there was Batman vs. Superman which was to star Collin Farrell as Batman and...I think....Jude Law as Superman (gag). Bale claims he auditioned for Superman and it would have come out in 2004/2005, if not for Wolfgang Peterson jumping ship for the more "interesting" project of
Troy. He considered Hector vs. Achilles his Batman vs. Superman film.
-People were so desperate to get a dark, "gritty" Batman movie after B&R that many loved Aronofsky's attempt at Year One. That included his screenplay that featured Bruce as an impoverished mechanic working for Big Al and going out in hockeypads.
-Christopher who? The guy from
Memento?!?!....
-Bale, Dammit. Half the fans wanted that and the rest seemed to want the guy who starred in Joss Whedon's
Angel. When Bale was cast, many fans took credit for it.
-Those convinced "Intimidation Game" was its real title.
-The screenplay for
Batman Begins leaking nearly a year or half a year in advance. I admit I read it.
-Being blowing away by BB and seeing it four times in theater (the only time I've done that since).
-Goyer promising the next two Bat-films would be about Joker and Dent, with Joker scarring Harvey at the beginning of the third film.
-I generally learned my lesson from hyping up movies after SM3 and also knowing too much of the plot of BB. So, I stayed in the dark for most of TDK's production. But I did love seeing snippets of the viral marketing like Harvey Dent newspaper covers and video interviews.
-I do recall people demanding Jude Law or Crispen Glover as Joker. When Heath Ledger was cast, I thought "Interesting..." but many fanboys flipped their ****. Worse, there was a small but vocal homophobic contingent that came out and defamed Ledger's casting because
Brokeback Mountain made their latent repressed issues uncomfortable.
-People claiming Liev Schriber or Matt Damon was cast as Harvey Dent.
-The first pic of the Joker dropping and fans mostly loving it, but a loud minority afraid he wouldn't smile. Worse, they were angry he wasn't permawhite. And so the permawhite vs. make-up fights began and eventually morphed into Nolanites who worshipped Nolan and some trolling....I stayed off the Batboards around this time.
-The first trailer dropping and being stunning. Ledger's critics shut up.
-Ledger passing away.
-Read TLH and DV for the first time before TDK came out. Loved them and only expanded my appreciation for Harvey Dent and what Nolan did with that character and the scope of his second film. While TDKR's detractors are right Bane simply isn't Joker, but TLH's themes and ideas were also a richer and sounder foundation than "Knightfall" or "No Man's Land" to build a film around.
-Having someone not using spoilers in a comment section spoil Two-Face dies and Joker lives a day before I saw the movie on opening night.
-TDK being the best superhero movie of all time. Still is.
-Outraged TDK wasn't nominated for BP. Stil find it bemusing.
-Nolanites becoming the scourge of the Internet.
-Mainstream news outlets floating false stories about Eddie Murphy as the Riddler and PSH as Penguin.
-Fans convinced that Tom Hardy was cast as Hugo Strange. Countless fake reports about that.
-Joseph Gordon Levitt being supposedly cast as Albert Falcone (Falcone's son)/ the Holiday Killer.
-Famous actresses auditioning for two parts. Most convinced both are Talia. I was in the camp pro-Catwoman. Many were convinced she couldn't work in Nolan's world (why I'm still baffled, she's a CAT THIEF with a subtle motif if played right in a world where a Bat and clown have made theatricality big).
-Fan petitions for Angelina Jolie or Marion Collitard as Selina Kyle.
-Bane? Cool. Except for the Riddler fans who were furious.
-Fans angry Hardy wasn't buff enough.
-Fans angry that Anne "Princess Diaries" Hathaway was cast Selina Kyle. You tell them to go watch
Rachel Getting Married or
Brokeback Mountain they ignore you. They then watch
Havoc and complain a little less....
Notice a pattern about how every decision is met with Nolanites who treat as gospel and vitriolic skeptics who hate everything? Ah.
Yeah, it has been entertaining, but I am glad overall that I would spend months not coming onto these boards either.
Just saying.
seeing as to me he pulls out all the stops to keep things secret.
