I'm Reading Your Stuff: General News and Discussion Thread

[Char]

Still waiting for this

Not really sure how Art Deco etc would translate into live action for a Batman film overall.

 

[Mindreaper21]

Not really sure how Art Deco etc would translate into live action for a Batman film overall.

It would easily fit if blimps were part of some sort of event such as the anniversary of Gotham. Similar to how blimps are used for NFL games. In a more modern take, blimps would be replaced with drones.

 

[TheSmoothKnight]

Funny James Gunn is now calling his Superman stories “Superman Saga” . I wonder where he got that from lol

 

[Boom]

Doesn't hit as good as "The Batman Epic Super Dee Duper Big Ol Crime Saga."

 

[SwordOfMorning]

Doesn't hit as good as "The Batman Epic Super Dee Duper Big Ol Crime Saga."

I love how Reeves calls it something nine words longer than it needs to be, god bless him lol

 

[Johnny Frost]

Still waiting for this

I would love that, but it seems like the closest we'll get to it will be the helicopters that appear in the first film and in The Penguin.

 

[donuts]

The term 'saga' certainly wasn't invented for Reeves' Batman.

 

[J.Drangal]

The term 'saga' certainly wasn't invented for Reeves' Batman.

Careful, one truth at a time.
Some still haven't realized Reeves didn't invent Batman...

 

[Mindreaper21]

Doesn't hit as good as "The Batman Epic Super Dee Duper Big Ol Crime Saga."

Holy Long Anime Title Boom-Man

 

[WayneMB]

I would love that, but it seems like the closest we'll get to it will be the helicopters that appear in the first film and in The Penguin.View attachment 144879

that video with all the cut establishing gotham shots from Penguin is insane. they looked incredible. the fact that TB II is gonna have even better ones makes me giddy.

 

[Lily Adler]

I would love that, but it seems like the closest we'll get to it will be the helicopters that appear in the first film and in The Penguin.View attachment 144879

I never realized how much I miss the Gotham PD blimps. I love the anachronisms in BTAS.

 

[J.Drangal]

I never realized how much I miss the Gotham PD blimps. I love the anachronisms in BTAS.

Yeah, my mental image of Gotham-City was shaped by Burton's movies and BTAS, so I also tend to prefer it being portrayed, visually speaking, as a fantasy place rather than a copy of our modern big cities.

That's one of the things I find very compelling about The Batman. Despite the discussions about the supposed realism of that take, its Gotham feels to me like an eternally moody place, caught between different eras, with some old architecture, sometimes Gothic or industrial, modern technology here, and gangsters in pinstripe suits there, etc. There's a larger-than-life/otherworldly quality to it.

I remember that interview from a couple years ago where Gunn said he wanted to approach the DC universe as a set of well-defined places, each with their own unique characteristics. I like that, and after seeing how he approached certain places in his Superman, I'm hopeful that we'll see yet another stylized Gotham.

The blimps are coming...