Batman:Year One (the movie that would have been)

[project13]

I recently read "Batman: Year One" and I thought hey, what if there a "Year One" adaption instead of "Begins". I mean it's an interesting orgin story and it would be great if it's adapted.

 

[silentflute]

I would have loved to seen the Year One movie that Frank and Darren Aranofsky were planning to do.Using Bale,Freeman,Oldman and Rosario Dawson(as Catwoman).

 

[Ceb-Man]

Maybe one day we will get Batman: Year One.
Silentflute, I agree with you on Rosario Dawson as Catwoman. I could see it.

 

[project13]

Aronofsky made two mistakes with "Year One":

1. He departed from the source material (i.e. the comic)
2. He made it into an R-rated film, which a Batman movie shouldn't be.


However, I like his idea of the Batmobile. It would have been like this:

 

[BatScot]

Too pretty... Aronofsky's Batmobile would have looked more like this:

... only much, much nastier.

 

[Mylord]

Aronofsky made two mistakes with "Year One":

1. He departed from the source material (i.e. the comic)
2. He made it into an R-rated film, which a Batman movie shouldn't be.

He made no mistakes because what Miller has wrote is the best Batman movie screenplay. Aronofsky is great director, good with visuals and he would give us that nasty, violent and great story. I't a shame that they didn't do that movie. It would have been the best superhero flick ever.

 

[TheDemon'sHead]

Wasn't Aronofsky's Year One supposed to start off with Bruce as a mechanic or something. I remember finding a script a few months ago, reading about 20 pages of it and thanking the gods that it wasn't made.

 

[project13]

Actually, the script had Bruce being homeless and Alfred a black mechanic. That's not the Bruce Wayne we know in the comics.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

The script, if rewritten to be more faithful to the comics and added more instances of the comic it's based on, would have been the best Batman movie EVER.

From what I read, the difference between this and Begins is that Begins got the more superficial continuity ideas right, YO got the CHARACTER right.

 

[project13]

Here are two concept designs on the Batmobile for the would be "Year One" movie:


Concept #1

Concept #2

Oh, and you can find the movie logo at this website:

http://www.batmanytb.com/movies/rumor/index.php

 

[Punch]

I would have loved to see this, Tarantino is a better fit for director though.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

I would have loved to see this, Tarantino is a better fit for director though.

Man, a Tarantino Batman movie would be so f**king insane that I'd kill to see it. t:

 

[silentflute]

As much as I love Tarantino, I don't want to see him do Batman.

Sorry, just not his thing.

 

[DieSmiling]

Tarantino doing Batman would be a freakin' nightmare.

Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller working together on Batman: Year One after Nolan finishes his trilogy... I could dig that.

 

[project13]

Great! Now all this thread needs is a fan-made movie poster.

 

[Punch]

Tarantino doing Batman would be a freakin' nightmare.

Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller working together on Batman: Year One after Nolan finishes his trilogy... I could dig that.

Tarantino's a nightmare, and then you suggest Rodriguez? Sure if you want a movie that looks like,and has the drama of, a bad video game.
Tarantino is perfect for this YO script, not a mainstream Batman film.

 

[Milkman95]

This Miller/Aronofsky script was good, but it wasn't a good Batman adaptation, but a good vigilante screenplay.

The homeless Bruce and Alfred being called Al and being a mechanic in a garage was just too much of a departure for me.

 

[project13]

Maybe one day we will get Batman: Year One.

That would happen AFTER Nolan finishes the franchise(or get replaced by another director).

 

[project13]

Why can't there be a DC movie reboot based on an origin story?

 

[Infinity9999x]

This Miller/Aronofsky script was good, but it wasn't a good Batman adaptation, but a good vigilante screenplay.

The homeless Bruce and Alfred being called Al and being a mechanic in a garage was just too much of a departure for me.

What the heck? What was Miller smoking when he wrote that?

 

[blind_fury]

A page-by-page translation (like Sin City and 300) by David Fincher (Se7en) would've been awesome.

 

[donk70]

As much as I love Tarantino, I don't want to see him do Batman.

Sorry, just not his thing.

+1, and i don't think he could keep it at PG-13

 

[BubbaGump]

If Tarantino directed, we'd have Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy again.

 

[Joker]

Tarantino would do an awesome All-Star Batman movie I think...

 

[BubbaGump]

Tarantino would do an awesome All-Star Batman movie I think...

That's what we thought, too, when Miller and Lee teamed up.