The Dark Knight Rises is almost sure to be Christopher Nolan ’s last Batman movie . But one thing ’s for sure : Warner Bros. wo n’t let the Dark Knight choke — another Batman moving picture serial is inevitable . And Will “ Dr. Batman ” Brooker , author of the newfangled book hunt the Dark Knight , has four ideas for rebooting the Batman films , that could take Bruce Wayne to a whole new level .
People already speculating about what anatomy Batman ’s next movie after Nolan ’s trilogy will take — with IMDB listing an Untitled Batman Reboot for 2015 , although that ’s probably desirous thinking .
Right now , it seems potential that Warners will endeavor to solicit the success of Marvel ’s cinematic population by marry in Batman with the new Man of Steel Superman movie , rebooting the flop Green Lantern without Ryan Reynolds ( it worked twice with the Hulk ) and finding stars to meet Flash , Wonder Woman and Martian Manhunter . But if Nolan manages to finish his dark , gritty trilogy on a high-pitched , sure any rebooted Batman , with the Dark Knight as a hombre without any great power on a 3D CGI spaceship full of gods and aliens , is going to feel like a cum - down ?
So here are some substitute melodic theme , with original artwork from Susan Shore , Sarah Zaidan and Clay Rodery .
The pitch : The 1939 Batman meets Boardwalk Empire and The Wire .
Cast include Jack Huston ( Harvey Dent ) , Steve Buscemi ( Joker )
When Bob Kane first sketched his ‘ Bat - Man ’ , around 1934 , crime lords like Al Capone were still very much at big , and classic gangster movies like Scarface , Little Caesar and The Public Enemy were still meet in cinemas . Batman strike comic book racks before the United States entered World War Two . It was a dissimilar world ; a world of tommy guns , Cadillacs , suits and hats .
So let ’s take the Bat - Man back there , and name the show after his first adventure , ‘ The Case of the Chemical Syndicate ’ from May 1939 . Bruce Wayne is a drawling playboy who smoke the episodic pipe with his pal Commissioner Gordon . Gotham is extend by mobsters and hire thugs , and Gordon and his male child are powerless to stop the racket . But all that changes when a stranger appears one night — a hefty figure in a grey leather get - up , build like a linebacker with a helmet covering his typeface — and set about bringing his own justice to the city .
The Syndicate is a 24 - episode dramatic play , a mosaic separate through the lives of the submarine sandwich and villain , but most importantly , the ordinary people of Gotham — the institutions , the police department , the schools , the society orb , the businesses . And the genuine twist ? We never actually see Bruce Wayne change into costume . Even consecrated fans will start enquire : is Wayne actually the Bat - Man in this show ? look discussion boards to go unbalanced with speculation every meter The Syndicate drop a cue .
Art : Clay Rodery .
The pitch : 1960s Batman meets Mad Men .
Cast includes Jon Hamm ( Bruce ) , Christina Hendricks ( Barbara ) , Elisabeth Olsen ( Kathy )
The last meter a Batman goggle box show was made in the 1960s , it became a gamey - camp classic . Let ’s strain something very different .
Bruce and Betty Wayne are Gotham ’s golden couplet ; she ’s an ex-husband - exemplar , he ’s a business organization executive director . But the gossip is that Betty ’s unhappy and Bruce is secretly cheating — every night he remain in town , come back rumpled , tired , armed with tough excuse . Art : Susan Shore , www.smuze.net
Bruce has secrets , but they ’re not what everyone suspects . He ’s look into a series of offense — a cascade - bath murder , a mirthful man strangulate with a R-2 , a passel of lethal birds , a photographer who witnessed a killing — with the service of his two secretarial assistant , curvy Barbara and bookish Kathy . And he ’s keeping his dual liveliness in stop , until his jealous commercial enterprise third-year Pete decides to dress up in a circus costume , name himself after Robin Hood and uncover Bruce ’s secret identity …
nontextual matter : Sarah Zaidan , http://ateliermitti.tumblr.com/
The lurch : Smallville , Twilight and The Hunger Games encounter Batman Year One .
mould include Robert Pattinson ( Bruce ) , Jennifer Lawrence ( Selina ) , Ezra Miller ( Joker )
If Batman is going to be rebooted along the lines of Amazing Spider - Man , with a younger , sour thespian in the main character , here ’s a direction to do it right .
Bruce is 25 , just come back from his ego - imposed exile around the world , where he ’s trained , study and travelled for the last six long time . The urban center ’s deform stinky in his absence ; corrupt bull melt extortion schemes in conference with the Cosa Nostra families , and the Wayne name has almost been forgotten .
20 - twelvemonth old Selina Kyle exist in a raspy district , and her mom ’s had to bargain with the local enforcer to pay tear . When she ca n’t meet their demand , the Kyle household is torched overnight . Selina leaps from an upper windowpane , grabbing the family pet ; her mother and small sis do n’t make it out . Selina , driven by deprivation and revenge , hits back against copper and gangster : the newspapers are soon calling this local vigilance man ‘ Cat - girl ’ , and Bruce finds himself draw into her neighbourhood , out of his depth .
Meanwhile a riotous High School elder has just kill his father and little sister in a suburban home outside Gotham . He express mirth in the typeface of the arresting officers , assure them lifetime was just a prank . He was christened Kevin . Now he ’s paint his lip red with stock in solitary and call in himself something very different …
The pitch : Gran Torino and Harry Brown meet The Dark Knight yield
Cast includes Clint Eastwood ( Bruce ) , Patricia Clarkson ( Selina ) , Burt Ward ( Dick ) , Chloe Moretz ( Robin )
Twelve miles outside Gotham is Wayne Manor , the run - down mansion house owned by a grouchy eccentric and police by Alsatian blackguard . Bruce , in his mid-eighties , spends his day scaring hood tike off the property and his night alone write memoirs his youth — or are they fantasies , an older guy ’s baffled wish - fulfilment ? Former partner , male person and distaff , implore him to betray the old pile and move to an flat in the city : this is my abode , he growls , discipline the detailed security and man - trap .
Only one thing can wreak this old hand back into Gotham : the homophobic beating and murder of his old warfare buddy , Dick Grayson , lights a fire inside Wayne . Selina Kyle , his last remaining ally , tells Bruce he ’s not ready to take on the new breed of criminals , beg him to allow the costume in its fount . Old man Wayne brush rubble off a forgotten cabinet , the keystrokes and watchword come back to him . A spotlight magnate on , shining down on a pristine Bat - suit . The Hell I will , he tell her .
Will Brooker is header of film and television enquiry at Kingston University , London . His books include Batman Unmasked , Using the Force , Alice ’s Adventures , The Blade Runner Experience and the BFI Film Classics volume on Star Wars . His new book , Hunting the Dark Knight : 21st Century Batman , is published by I B Tauris in June 2012 .
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