(Today: Batman: misdirection game, Disney's Narnia?, Mars update, Place of Honor?, Second separation)
I liked the sucker title better...
This is from last Thursday at Cinescape (confirmed on Friday over at Variety), but it was new to me.
The new Batman movie had been touted in all pre-production references as Batman: Intimidation Game and, later shortened to Batman: Intimidation. As it turns out these titles were a smoke screen to throw the rumor-hunters off. The official title of the film is Batman Begins.
Set for release sometime in 2005, Batman Begins will be directed by Christopher (Memento) Nolan, from a screenplay by Nolan and comics & movie scribe David Goyer. Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Ken Watanabe as Ra's al Ghul, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox, Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane, and Liam Neeson as Henri Ducard, one of Bruce Wayne's mentors.
The only glaring visual mis-cast in the lot is Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane, also known to Batman comics fans as the Scarecrow. The Crane of the comics is awkwardly lanky, much like The Headless Horseman's Ichabod Crane. A physical unattractiveness - a trait common to so many comics villains who find themselves alienated initially for their appearance - is apparently an aspect they're going to be shelving -- unless Murphy's going to be undergoing significant make-up. Perhaps the screenwriters have found the social outcast angle to be overplayed?
Update: Over at Superherohype I see that yesterday they posted some plot information on the movie - so consider this with a spoilers warning. I don't think it's as radical a re-write as it initially seems, and that the sentence that seems to imply Bruce just finds the Bat-suit is simply a poor sentence at work. The attempt seems to be to make Ra's al Ghul into a larger background figure in the Batman history, and could actually come across as much less contrived than what they did with the Joker in 1989's Batman.
I liked the sucker title better...
This is from last Thursday at Cinescape (confirmed on Friday over at Variety), but it was new to me.
The new Batman movie had been touted in all pre-production references as Batman: Intimidation Game and, later shortened to Batman: Intimidation. As it turns out these titles were a smoke screen to throw the rumor-hunters off. The official title of the film is Batman Begins.
Set for release sometime in 2005, Batman Begins will be directed by Christopher (Memento) Nolan, from a screenplay by Nolan and comics & movie scribe David Goyer. Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Ken Watanabe as Ra's al Ghul, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox, Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane, and Liam Neeson as Henri Ducard, one of Bruce Wayne's mentors.
The only glaring visual mis-cast in the lot is Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane, also known to Batman comics fans as the Scarecrow. The Crane of the comics is awkwardly lanky, much like The Headless Horseman's Ichabod Crane. A physical unattractiveness - a trait common to so many comics villains who find themselves alienated initially for their appearance - is apparently an aspect they're going to be shelving -- unless Murphy's going to be undergoing significant make-up. Perhaps the screenwriters have found the social outcast angle to be overplayed?
Update: Over at Superherohype I see that yesterday they posted some plot information on the movie - so consider this with a spoilers warning. I don't think it's as radical a re-write as it initially seems, and that the sentence that seems to imply Bruce just finds the Bat-suit is simply a poor sentence at work. The attempt seems to be to make Ra's al Ghul into a larger background figure in the Batman history, and could actually come across as much less contrived than what they did with the Joker in 1989's Batman.
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