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Rumblings From Gotham - IGN

  • ️Brian Linder
  • ️Thu Jul 27 2000

"A guy in a bat-suit walks into a bar..."

So Val Kilmer wants to be Batman again?¿ That's what he told Variety yesterday anyway. Kilmer said he'd be interested in taking on the role of Bats again, but only if the movie could be more "humorous."¿¿

Oh my!¿ Val, you're a busy guy!¿ I know it's been a tough year!¿ Climbing in and out of that hot spacesuit must've damaged your brain.¿ Let's have a quick refresher on where the Batman franchise is at right now.¿ Batman & Robin...remember that?¿ Okay then, the last thing that Batman needs right now is "more humor."¿¿

Don't expect to see Kilmer suiting up any time soon.¿ With Warner Brothers looking to relaunch the franchise, it's not likely they'd go with one of the previous Bat-actors.

In related Batman 5 news, The BATCAVE has learned that Negotiator scribes James DeMonaco and Kevin Fox may have been approached to pen a full script for Batman: Year One.

It's unknown if the script will be based on Scott Rosenberg's "Year One" treatment, or if they'll be starting from scratch.¿ The BATCAVE's sources indicate that Director, Darren Aronofsky may have believed the Rosenberg treatment to be "too faithful to the source material."¿ Aronofsky reportedly wants to his Batman: Year One to have a mood and level of action similar to Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. You can't go with that!

Steve Buscemi would have made the perfect Scarecrow!

From things to come to things that could have been.¿IGN Movies ran into screenwriter Mark Protosevich at the San Diego Comic-Con last week.¿ Loyal Bat-fans will remember that Mark was rumored to have penned a Batman script, entitled Batman Triumphant,¿ back before Batman & Robin...before the dark times.¿

Chris and Den got the chance to pick Mark's brain about the Batman script, and he set the record straight on a few things.¿ The Batman Triumphant villains had been rumored to be Man-Bat and Scarecrow, but this was not the case.¿ (Note: Man-Bat and Scarecrow were actually the villains in the Lee Shapiro and Stephen Wise script for Batman: Darknight.)¿ The baddies in Protosevich's draft were actually the Scarecrow and Harley Quinn.¿ Protosevich went on to drop the bomb that he had written Harley as the daughter of The Joker. Talk about a dysfunctional family!¿

As far as Mark knows his script is collecting dust in a Warner exec's office, but who knows what the future holds for the Batman franchise! Once Year One is behind us, we could certainly see more Bat-sequels.¿ Patience is indeed a virtue, but take heart in one certainty...no more Schumacher.

-- Brian Linder would loved to have seen Buscemi as Scarecrow and as Rachel Weisz (The Mummy) as Harley.

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