Hey folks, Harry here... Well damn... Looks like Warner Brothers may finally be on the right path with a superhero project. This has immense potential. I mean, Andrew Kevin Walker writing the Joker Character? The man that created the John Doe character from SEVEN doing the Joker? I'm there. Wolfgang Peterson directing? A World's Fair, robot machine men? Destruction in the streets of Gotham? Batman as a Detective? Clark Kent as a reporter? Lex Luthor as an industrialist? Joker as a psychopath? Superman being very public? Batman sticking to the shadows of Gotham? Yeah... Damn straight. Yup, that's the right path. Exciting stuff here. No just so long as they don't cast John Travolta as Superman, we'll be fine. Will we see Warners as two companies.... Pre-MATRIX and Post-MATRIX?
I've just watched the MATRIX REVISITED dvd and saw Lorenzo Di Bonaventura gushing enthusiastically about the genius of the film, its vision, its philosophy and its influence. Wellllll.... The best thing that can be learned from the MATRIX is that working with great material, hiring the right people, getting the right actors and innovating filmmaking techniques to do the things we haven't seen in these types of films.... CAN BE DONE! Hopefully, this is the direction that Warners' big films will be headed in. Personally this looks like an ideal project. Very attractive...
Hey Harry.
First time scooper..Lets get down to what is what SUPERMAN/BATMAN .. Andrew Kevin Walker turned this Bad boy in around a month ago and is currently working on the first draft..The Wb hopes to have a summer 2003 flick on their hands..And well I hope it comes true..Wolfgang Peterson is ready and has cleared out his future projects to stay with this film for the next few years..
LEX LUTHOR! THE JOKER! GOTHAM WORLD"S FAIR! MACHINE MEN!!!!!
Well here we go.. This is the treatment and not the final script..This runs about 40 pages long ..From what I can tell this is basicly BATMAN 5 with SUPERMAN in it. The title is BATMAN/SUPERMAN I guess the WB decided not to put an & inbetween in fear people might think it will be like BATMAN&ROBIN.
BATMAN/ There is no doubt this is the Batman from the last four films.But he is all alone in this one..No Bat-girl, No robin Nightwing is mentioned one time and thats it. He is much darker and driven..The death of his parents still haunts him..For the first time on film he is a confident batman...Not dealing with finding the murderer of his parents,Not trying to figure out if he should hit or kiss Catwoman, Not wondering if he Batman Or Bruce Wayne and NOT AT ALL showing up in the public with a Credit card. Thats one thing this treatment (from what I can tell ) has done right..Batman and Superman have scenes together but Superman carries the Public role as he should..Batman is left in the shadows for the first time in almost ten years on film.
SUPERMAN/ It's hard to tell from only this treatment wether this is the Superman from the past four films.No where near the amount of information is given about him compared to Batman. But Superman is already well known in this story..He has been around aslong as Batman they just have never met..There is no doubt Bats has more screen time than Sups..But I am sad to say Superman gets more of the Action while Batman is mostly in the shadows doing detective work.
THE BAD GUYS/ LEX LUTHOR! Well forget all the Patrick Stewert Rumors because this is'nt even the Luthor he could play..According to this treatment this is the RED HEADED AUSSIE version of Luthor from the Death of Superman days of 1993. Yes the Remade,Reborn Son of Lex that really is Lex himself ..Do I like this? well alittle depending on how well the script explains this..And just who is helping out Luthor,,well there is no Other..THE JOKER!!!!! Yes The Joker he is brought back in a very predictable way but it also fits the story ( SPOLIER++++ Lex decideds to put Batman off track by cloning The JOker and have him run a rampage on Gotham .++END SPOLIER) There are some great scenes between The Joker and Batman..Very The Killing Joke-ish...
Other People/ Lois Lane is here pretty much joining Clark Kent on his trip to Gotham to cover the Gotham World's Fair..Bruce Waynes love intrest is the MAYOR of Gotham ..Don't worry the Gay Batman is gone..The mayor is female and she is HOTT!..The Treatment discribes her as the first Pin up mayor in history..Commishner Gordon like the previous films has a small and pointless role..Alfred also has a small role that does not help the plot..( also remember i am going by The TREATMENT and not a rough or finished script..Some things will change)
Now lets get onto what we really care about THE PLOT!
Well pretty much here it goes..Lex Luthor Jr. takes over Lex Corp after the death of his father..Hmmm (it's just away for lex to get out of all the legal trouble he is in).. Lex Jr.. Decides to create a Mass market of Machine Men for large Componies...These massive human and spider like Machines turn out to be incredible..So much Lex decides to take them to the World's Fair in Gotham..Clark Kent and Lane are sent there to cover the story.Meanwhile Bruce Wayne is falling in love with The mayor and it certainly will make some strange and funny situations.. Bruce Wayne who is Luthors direct compedator wonders what luthor is up to..So Batman decides to do some snooping around....Pretty much all action from here.. The machine are can be controled by a satlite garded with Kryptonite ..Pretty much Lex corp can make these Machines do anything he wants.. The machines can even link up with any computer online and get information to Lex corp.. Lex Starts to sense Batman is onto him so he decides to (SPOLIER Clone The JOKER to distract him)
Superman comes into the picture and for the whole middle of the film we have SUperman vs Lex and Batman vs the joker..Then the Super villens team up to put a hurt on Gotham as the machines march and terrorize the streets...Until there is a Huge Final Battle at the Worlds Fair..
THE ACTION/ Plenty of Action and Adventure....Batman has a great car chase scene..And Bank robbery scene and a Great scene with the Joker at the Church where he was killed....Superman Also has this Bad-ass Flight Chase with a massive flying robot..That carries into space where Sups discovers that the satlite is protected by Kryptonite.I personally love the scene where the machines are marching down a ravaged and broken downtown Gotham and Superman starts taking them down one by one..The Ultimite is the Gotham World's Fair Climax....There are sure to be some Jaw Dropping Special Effects...Fluid Moving Machines Everywhere! Batman/ Superman Team up!
The Ups and Downs/ Machines?...Well I love the idea but is'nt this gonna be considerd a huge Star Wars clones ripoff?....I hope they Can pull off something new looking and Original..The Joker Bringging him back is a plus but again are people going to think of a star wars rip off?.... Well The action seems to be well placed and Each main character is given respect and hopefully time to devolope. I can't wait to get ahold of the First draft...Who knows maybe by then Travolta will sign on! haha!
Don't worry there is'nt any GORDON HAS A BEER AND CHEETS ON HIS WIFE SCEENS! ;o)
Harry Pothead
