Back in November 2013, the world came together to celebrate the wish of Miles Scott, whose Make-A-Wish Foundation dream was to be Batman for a day.
More than 25,000 people crowded the city's streets to take part in Miles' Make-A-Wish dream to be his favorite superhero for a day. An estimated 2 billion people followed his heroics on social media. Even President Obama congratulated Miles for his crime-fighting with a Vine message.
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Organizers hoped 200 people would show up to make the dream seem real. But the response was so great that police were forced to make the journey a parade route as Miles zipped from location to location — saving a damsel in distress, stopping the Riddler and capturing the Penguin at AT&T Park. At the end of the day, he received the keys to the city from grateful San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.
…says THIS piece in USA Today, which now brings us our first look at BATKID BEGINS - a new documentary chronicling Miles’ struggle with Leukemia, and his courageous stint as a diminutive Dark Knight.
BATKID BEGINS starts its release pattern on June 26.
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Glen Oliver
“Merrick”
