Batman: Intimidation

STORYLINE:

"This one is said to be based on the script Batman: The Frightening, featuring The Scarecrow as the lead baddie. The movie initially was to be based on Frank Miller's graphic novel Batman: YO, a film-noir-infused, four-issue story written in 1987 and published by DC Comics that detailed Bruce Wayne's first year as Batman, including the self-doubts and blunders he had to overcome in order to emerge as a full-blown crime fighter."

CAST:

Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Katie Holmes (rumored), Cillian Murphy, Michelle Pfeiffer (rumored), Viggo Mortensen (rumored), Morgan Freeman (rumored)

Director: Christopher Nolan

Screenwriter: David Goyer

Release date: July 1, 2005

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Its gotta be better than the last ones...right?

[SilverSpoon]

It better be good. And the Scarecrow better be scary as hell.

I like Katie Homes...I'd watch.

From all that text above, they make it sound as if the movie was going to be based on that Frank Miller book, Batman: YO, since they spent so much time talking about it. So is it based on it, or is it based on Batman: The Freightening?? Does anybody know if the stories are related? I don't really want to see a movie accounting for Bruce Wayne's first few years as a crime fighter. [img]graemlins/ohwell.gif[/img]

And how can Michelle Pfeiffer be rumoured to be in this installment? She was already Catwoman in Batman II. [img]graemlins/ohwell.gif[/img]

[SilverSpoon]

According to this script review the movie will be about Bruce Wayne's beginnings as Batman, and the villain is some dude name Al Ghul. I don't read the comics (DC sucks! Marvel rules!) so I have no idea who he is.

From the review the movie seems pretty good, though. I'm excited.

Ra's Al Ghul is a a guy who has lived far beyond a normal human lifespan thanks to the regenerative powers of the Lazarus Pit, a bath of unknown chemicals fatal to others but always able to restore al Ghul to health and life.

Ra's Al Ghul has a daughter named Talia (who was and will probably be so in the movie, a love-interest for Bruce Wayne/Batman.)

Here is an actual synopsis of the story:

Ra's al Ghul is a megalomaniac who places himself above society's laws and conventions in pursuit of his private vision of a "better world." To that end, he commands a small army of fanatical followers who are adept with both ancient and futuristic weaponry. Despite his great power and lofty goals, however, he will never be successful in taking control of the world...not so long as the Batman has anything to say about it.
Very little is known of Ra's al Ghul's background. Ra's al Ghul ("the demon's head" in Arabic) is assumed to be an alias, his real name lost to the mists of time. No one is entirely certain of his age, save that he has lived far beyond a normal human lifespan thanks to the regenerative powers of the Lazarus Pit, a bath of unknown chemicals fatal to others but always able to restore al Ghul to health and life. What is known is that, during World War II, al Ghul commanded an organization of his own which he often used to combat Axis powers. Two of his most trusted agents perished at Hiroshima, leaving al Gul to care for their teen-aged son as if the youth were his own. From the moment of his parents' death, the boy became fatalistic and moody and adopted the name Qayin, after a variation on Cain, the Biblical murderer. Sadly, it was Qayin who was then responsible for the death of al Ghul's beautiful wife, Melisande, whom he accidentally pushed into the Lazarus Pit; she met her gruesome end in front of Talia, the al Ghul's only child.


| Many years later, Batman met Talia when he rescued her from a former employee of Ra's al Ghul's who intended to create a criminal cartel to rival his former master's. Shortly thereafter, al Ghul proceeded to test the Batman's fabled skills by arranging for a "mysterious party" -- secretly himself-- to kidnap both **** Grayson (the first Robin) and Talia, but the Dark Knight was on to Al Ghul almost from the start. Once Robin was freed and safe, Batman was appalled to learn that he was being tested for his worthiness as a husband for Talia and an heir to al Ghul's international cartel. Despite his attraction to Talia, the Batman declined the offer.
Since then, the Batman has tirelessly opposed al Ghul's acts of worldwide terrorism. The job has not been easy; not only is al Ghul's personal fortune far in excess of even the Batman's, but Ra's is his foe's equal in brilliance and long ago deduced the secret of Batman's double identity of Bruce Wayne. On rare occasions, al Ghul has even fought at Batman's side, such as the time the two men worked together to apprehend the adult Qayin, who had become a formidable Mideastern terrorist.

Well, on this batman site it said that Katie Holmes would be playing a girl named Rachel...does that have any significance?

Hmmm, this is sounding much darker....much more......"batman-ish". Sounds great to me. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I just hope it's not puss<M>yfied like Joel Schumacher's vision of Batman. He makes crappy movies like it's intentional. He's one of those guys that made a good movie (and I don't even know if he has or not...) a long, long time ago, and people think back and remember it, and so they give Joel a 2nd chance, then a 17th chance, because they can't believe that a person who created such a brilliant movie 25 years ago could possibly make another bad movie.