Draft Two - Part One
Over the course of the next few weeks I'm going to update my story ideas.
Roman Sionis - Black Mask
In the comics, Roman Sionis was born into one of Gotham’s wealthiest families, the owners of Janus Cosmetics. After the death of his parents Sionis inherited his family’s business and then proceeded to run it into the ground. He was eventually bailed out when Bruce Wayne bought his company, but feeling disgraced, Sionis became Black Mask and attempted to murder several Wayne Enterprises employees.
Combining a mob boss and a "freak" would create the escalation we need for the third chapter in Chris Nolan's crime epic storyline.
After the "accidental" death of his parents, Sionis inherits everything and decides to use his resources to take total control of the two things he desires most, Wayne Enterprises and Gotham City. Set one year after the events in The Dark Knight, Sionis would serve as the film's central villain. Using a dual identity much the way Bruce Wayne does, Sionis appears to be the squeaky clean industrialist who rivals Lucius Fox for Wayne Enterprises, only secretly to be known as Black Mask, a murdering sadist who controls the largest gang of organized crime in the history of Gotham, The False Face Society.
My casting choice is Matthew Goode
(The Lookout, Watchmen). In Watchmen, Goode was handsome and charismatic on the surface, while secretly counseling his true nature... sound like someone else you've heard of?
