Sup folks! Gonna repost my post in the "Tim Burton's Batman 3" thread in here:
So....I'm doing a series of retro trailers on my Youtube channel (link in sig). Last year I did TDK if it were
made in the 80s, and I just did a Matrix/John Wick 80s style mashup. These take a pretty decent amount of work to produce, but I'm having a ridiculous amount of fun doing them and plan on doing a lot more hopefully. Naturally, I have a ton of ideas for Batman related trailers-- including finishing the TDK trilogy with Begins as a late 70s movie and TDKR as an early 90s action movie. And I'm in the midst of working on Batman 89 as a 1940s noir film to hopefully coincide with the 30th anniversary towards the end of this month.
I bring this up here because I may have stumbled on an angle for a "Burton's Batman 3" retro-styled trailer. I know there have been a lot of "Batman 3" fan projects announced on these board over the years, and they never seem to come to fruition...so me even talking about it this point is risky haha. I don't want to jinx it, but I figured I'd just throw it out there and see if anyone is interested and maybe I'll kind of workshop the idea a bit and post about my progress here and there.
I should be clear though, if I tackle this I would be giving it my all. It wouldn't just be slapping together a bunch of clips from random movies like some of the fan-attempts I've seen on Youtube (though there'd naturally be some of that). It'd be designing authentic titles, getting professional voiceover recorded, possibly
deepfaking Keaton's face onto Kilmer's face in some key Batman Forever scenes. Trying to find a narrative for it that makes sense and doing my best to approximate how a trailer would've tried to convey that circa-1995. It would be an all hands on deck creative project and would take months of work, whenever I get around to it. The driving goal would be to make it immersive enough so that it almost feels like we're finding a VHS artifact from an alternate dimension where this movie actually existed. That's kind of the approach I've been trying to take with these trailers so far.
I should add that Burton's never-to-be third film has always been an interest of mine and I still would love to see it take form as an animated movie or comic some day. It's like the lost holy grail of comic book movies and I think it's an itch many of us still want scratched...somehow!
