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'''''Batman: DarKnight''''' was another idea for a sequel to ''[[Batman & Robin]]'' (after ''[[Batman Unchained]]'' was halted). Lee Shapiro and Stephen Wise drafted a script, and [[Joel Schumacher]] had also signed to direct.
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'''''Batman: DarKnight'''''<ref>[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/batman-movie-series-list-unmade-802032 THR Heat Vision - Before 'Batman Begins': Secret History of the Movies That Almost Got Made]</ref> was another sequel script to ''[[Batman & Robin]]'' (after ''[[Batman Unchained]]'' was halted). Lee Shapiro and Stephen Wise drafted the script and the project was being shepherded by WB executive Greg Silverman without input from [[Joel Schumacher]], who had been exiled from the [[Batman Film Franchise|franchise]] at that point.
   
 
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*[[George Clooney]] as [[Batman (George Clooney)|Bruce Wayne/Batman]]
 
*[[George Clooney]] as [[Batman (George Clooney)|Bruce Wayne/Batman]]
 
*[[Chris O'Donnell]] as [[Robin (Chris O'Donnell)|Dick Grayson/Robin]]
 
*[[Chris O'Donnell]] as [[Robin (Chris O'Donnell)|Dick Grayson/Robin]]
*Jeff Goldblum or Christopher Lloyd or Nicolas Cage as [[The Scarecrow|Dr. Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow]]
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*[[w:c:marvelcinematicuniverse:Jeff_Goldblum|Jeff Goldblum]] as [[The Scarecrow|Dr. Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow]]
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*[[Michael Gough]] as Alfred
*Terence Stamp as [[Man-Bat|Dr. Kirk Langstrom/Man-Bat]]
 
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*[[Pat Hingle]] as Commissioner Gordon
   
 
== Trivia ==
 
== Trivia ==
* The film's story was somewhat based on ''The Dark Knight Returns'', as it featured an older Bruce Wayne coming out of retirement as Batman to save Gotham.
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* The film's story was vaguely inspired ''The Dark Knight Returns'', as it featured a slightly older, weary Bruce Wayne coming out of retirement as Batman to save Gotham.
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Revision as of 19:47, 7 September 2018

Batman: DarKnight[1] was another sequel script to Batman & Robin (after Batman Unchained was halted). Lee Shapiro and Stephen Wise drafted the script and the project was being shepherded by WB executive Greg Silverman without input from Joel Schumacher, who had been exiled from the franchise at that point.

Story

Bruce Wayne is in self-imposed seclusion from life, because he feels he has lost his greatest weapons in the fight against crime: his mystique and his enemies' fear. Dick Grayson attends Gotham University, trying to discover who he is apart from his guardian and unwilling to return as Robin without him. Meanwhile, Dr. Jonathan Crane uses his position as professor of psychology at Gotham University and as resident psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum to conduct his experiments in fear. During a vengeful confrontation with a colleague, Dr. Kirk Langstrom, Jonathan Crane unknowingly initiates Kirk's transformation into the creature known as Man-Bat. The unsuspecting denizens of Gotham scream for Batman's head, believing that Man-Bat's nightly hunts is the Dark Knight's bloodthirsty return to action. Bruce dons cape and cowl once more to clear his name and solve the mystery behind these attacks. Eventually, Dick ends up in Arkham Asylum under Crane's unsympathetic watch, and Kirk struggles with his "man vs. monster" syndrome as he longs to both reunite with his wife and get revenge on Crane.

Cast

Trivia

  • The film's story was vaguely inspired The Dark Knight Returns, as it featured a slightly older, weary Bruce Wayne coming out of retirement as Batman to save Gotham.

References