What If they Made a Batman Movie That Took Place in The 1930s/40s

[catter]

I know This should probally go in the batman section and if you move it I have no Problem But I wanted to ask people that werent just Batman Fans

Basically the Title says it all


What if they made Batman Begins Or Even the 1989 movie and set in the Time Frame of the original comic in the early 40s


I really like How Batman 89 Has a timeless feel and it feels like it could take place in the 80s the 40s or even today

Would a Batman Movie Set in 1939 be a good Idea

Discuss

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Batman: Tas was done in the style of Dark Deco if that style was still prominent in the future, so sort of speaking, visually, we have one, The mask of phantasm.

 

[Tojo]

Yeah TAS has that early-mid/mid 20th Century style. But as for a film i can't really see the point except on a nostalgic, novel andvisual level. If you had a really great director doing it then yes it'd be really fun. It'd be alot more basic. Just Batman and his rope. It's be great.

 

[catter]

Yea he would have to use technology from that decade it would be amazing

 

[JaD]

This is interesting, you should move this to Bat-World, kinda cool

 

[catter]

If someone can move it for me go ahead

 

[Gotham]

It isn't a film per say, but the new television series Batman: The Brave and the Bold does a unique 40s feel.

 

[Two-Face]

It isn't a film per say, but the new television series Batman: The Brave and the Bold does a unique 40s feel.

You serious?

 

[Nirvana]

I honestly think a Superman period piece would be more interesting. But Batman, I am actually very happy that he is finally in "the real world".

 

[Fanticon]

it would suck.

truthfully though...the idea of Batman and Gotham and at least to me, and Tim Burton's vision and the amazing BTAS (just as a talking point) is that its always meant to be a fictional city trapped in time, where both the 30's40's50's and present seemed to have merged without ever placing it in a real time period. Nolan's vision is true to the dark essence, character and nature of the comics...but he did away with the idea of this kind of limbo in time it takes place in.

 

[DorkyFresh]

the idea of Batman and Gotham and at least to me, and Tim Burton's vision and the amazing BTAS (just as a talking point) is that its always meant to be a fictional city trapped in time, where both the 30's40's50's and present seemed to have merged without ever placing it in a real time period.

don't forget the 80's hehe...




...i would LOVE to see a Batman movie with a 40's/50's feel. i wouldn't want the technology to be 40's based, but i'd love to see a Batman movie with an art deco feel to everything. that being said...Laderlappen provided an awesome cast for a 40's inspired Batflick...

My Dreamcast

Gregory Peck - Bruce Wayne/Batman

Sophia Loren - Selina Kyle/Catwoman

Vincent Price - The Joker

David Niven - Alfred

Montgomery Clift - Harvey Dent

Joseph Cotten - Jim Gordon

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

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It worked beautifully in TAS.
From the look of the cars in Batman: Gotham Knight, they seem to have a 1940/50 look to them.
In a movie much like the nature of batman, the shadow, it worked pretty good imo.

 

[WompuM]

I often think about a Superman WWII movie myself. Would love to see him with a New Frontier style costume fighting Nazi planes and such.

 

[CorpusBlack]

Price as the Joker? C'mon lets just throw him in as Egghead.

 

[Apollo]

that would be really neat. If would have a classic film noir feeling to it.

 

[Orson_Randall]

me and my cousin talk about howt hey should make Comic movies time pieces all the time...

a 40's batman, a 50' superman, 60's spider man....would rock

hopefully Watcmen will have success and open the door for just such events

 

[YsoSerious]

A 40's batman? What would his cool gadgets be? A CB radio,a calculator the size of a refrigerator, or maybe one of those newfangled television sets?

 

[Orson_Randall]

A 40's batman? What would his cool gadgets be? A CB radio,a calculator the size of a refrigerator, or maybe one of those newfangled television sets?

make him RAW, not all about "Those wonderfull toy's" as the joker would say

 

[TNC9852002]

Anyone else here think that 89 Batman isn't all that timeless?

-TNC

 

[Jackasscoley15]

Oh man, this reminds me of the rumor that was spreading around here in '03-'04 that Orson Welles had wanted to make a Batman movie back in the 40's. It was false, of course, but it was interesting.

 

[Joker]

I would have loved a Batman movie set in the 40's. Sure, there's the serials from that time, but a modern-made one set in that time would be incredible. Same with a Superman movie.

 

[Tojo]

Orson Welles would have an interesting one. Problem is he'd have wanted to play Batman and he's a fatty.

 

[Lex Luthor]

I actually quite enjoy the two Batman serials produced during the early and late 1940's, and I'm pretty sure I would have loved an actual Batman film made during this time as well. It certainly would have been interesting to see a different type of approach taken with the material during those years inparticular, and how the audiences would have responded to it.

 

[batman44]

Anyone else here think that 89 Batman isn't all that timeless?

-TNC

Raises Hand.

I still love it, it just doesn't come off as timeless to me.

 

[The Chairman]

A 1930s' Batman film would be amazing. Give it that "film-noir" vibe, have Hitchcockdirect it, get a kickass script and score and you have a legendary piece of cinema. Shame it could never happen.

My ideal cast would be:

Batman / Bruce Wayne - Gregory Peck

Alfred Pennyworth - Claude Rains

Jim Gordon - Henry Fonda

The Joker - Richard Widmark

Catwoman / Selina Kyle - Gene Tierney

Harvey Dnet / Two-Face - Robert Mitchum

Poison Ivy / Pamela Isley - Rita Hayworth