Bah, the Joker would HAVE to be none other than David Bowie The Thin White Duke himself. Great actor when he puts his mind to it and the model for DKR Joker in the first place.
Why is the whole Reagan era and Cold War scenario such a big deal for people? "BTAS" the first few seasons looked like it came out of the 30's-50's, whereas the later seasons looked ver much like of today. Frank Miller likes combining film noir and different periods and years all together.
look I've outlined the differences in every one of my posts on this subject and people keep ignoring the main issue (time goes backwards while his age goes forwards) and going for an easy, lazy refute which is mostly beside the point. TAS was realized in art-deco
visual style. It was also a childrens cartoon on TV. DKR references
actual events, people and more importantly moods and a zeitgeist that are EXCLUSIVE to the 80's, and it's a blockbuster film for a HUGE mainstream audience released in cinemas. There's bit more on line than in TV toons. Sorry but I'm sick of people getting up and saying "oh but the Burton movies were set back in the day too" or "they changed actors and settings with the Nolan franchise!" There's alot more going on here than that.
If it has Batman on the front of the movie, people won't care what timeframe it's set. Hell, you wouldn't even have to have Reagan or the Cold War setting, you could just have some guy who resembles Reagan or talks like him, and keep the setting in the future. Or have it where someone revives Reagan from the dead, he runs for president, and wins and then continue on with the book.
people will care when the timeframe becomes important to the film and kind of hard to ignore. Huge events and themes in the book will have to be altered if you want to keep the Cold War period out (which is the logical step of course). But again this goes to the point that if you're making a DKR film
without the 80's it's not really DKR anymore is it? It'd be like putting Watchmen in the new millennium and making it about terrorism. You may as well just make an original movie set in a PROPER FUTURE and keep the best bits of DKR, the ultimate 'future batman' with bits of Batman Beyond or whatever else you want to add.
Also a film with the themes of DKR will be held to much higher scrutiny than the comic book. Alot of fans love DKR for the action, the old batman, Joker, Superman etc and don't give a damn about the political/sociological themes. But critics and older audiences in a movie definitely will. And don't give me "oh screw the critics". You don't make a summer blockbuster without considering the critics and older somewhat more discerning folk. Okay Transformers maybe, but we're talking DKR here which definitely has a political edge, and you have to get that right.
btw I'm the only person who has a problem with this, not 'people'.
learn your Batman comics goddamnit
you had TKJ there. I know what that is. and Nolan already made that movie
