^^ Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that 'interview'. So we also have…
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Batman with Ben Affleck-- Rumors, pic, etc;
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Jeremy Irons interview:
So now that's two people saying Batman's shooting next summer.
Looks like late 2018 is more and more likely.
So now that's two people saying Batman's shooting next summer.
Looks like late 2018 is more and more likely.
*sigh* And here comes the inevitable "It's gonna suck" rumor mill...
http://io9.gizmodo.com/well-heres-a...utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
It's a third-hand rumor, so I don't give it my implicit trust, but I don't dismiss it out of hand either.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/well-heres-a...utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
It's a third-hand rumor, so I don't give it my implicit trust, but I don't dismiss it out of hand either.
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Oh, one can certainly hope. I certainly do. But Warner /dc haven't exactly earned my trust and stuff like this is starting to seem like par for the course for DC movies.
And it does seem like a odd thing for Bret Easton Ellis to Simply fabricate out of nothing.
And it does seem like a odd thing for Bret Easton Ellis to Simply fabricate out of nothing.
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It's sounds exactly like nothing.
I miss Faraci, when he made shit up at least he bothered to package it nicely and at least make it sound plausible.
This is just "I heard from a guy who heard from a guy who had lunch with a guy who heard from some other guy that it sucks". It's like they're not even trying anymore...
It's sounds exactly like nothing.
I miss Faraci, when he made shit up at least he bothered to package it nicely and at least make it sound plausible.
This is just "I heard from a guy who heard from a guy who had lunch with a guy who heard from some other guy that it sucks". It's like they're not even trying anymore...
This sounds and smells like total BS. This "rumour" isn't even worth the two sentences I devoted for it.
Trek didn't get around to that until Voyager and Enterprise.
I was just pointing out how little responsible journalism there is with these type of websites. There's no fact-checking or research. They just repeat what other sites have printed first in an attempt to steal some of their clicks. Hell, how many of these sites even generate their own content?
One of my favorite rumors was that Cher would play Catwoman in Nolan's third Batman movie.
Another way to read it is that some executives who weren't involved in Batman wanted to get involved and were told to fuck off.
Affleck is an intelligent guy and this movie is his baby, so I assume he, of all people, will be heavily invested in quality control.
Bret Easton Ellis has backtracked by claiming the studio execs he spoke too AREN'T involved with the film.
"During a long interview with The Ringer’s Sean Fennessey we talked about reasons why studio movies are so bad now and touched on the global needs of the marketplace. I told him something I had heard about the new Batman movie as an example of what might be the problem: I was talking with two executives who have NOTHING to do with the Batman movie and who KNEW people who were involved with the production. The two executives I was having dinner with were relating the problems they had heard about the script from people working on the Batman project–that’s all. I know no one involved with the Batman movie and I didn’t realize that my comments would make it into The Ringer piece or else I wouldn’t have cited that particular movie–I have no idea what the Batman script is like and I regret that it came off as if I was disparaging the project. Another reason to be careful giving interviews."
"During a long interview with The Ringer’s Sean Fennessey we talked about reasons why studio movies are so bad now and touched on the global needs of the marketplace. I told him something I had heard about the new Batman movie as an example of what might be the problem: I was talking with two executives who have NOTHING to do with the Batman movie and who KNEW people who were involved with the production. The two executives I was having dinner with were relating the problems they had heard about the script from people working on the Batman project–that’s all. I know no one involved with the Batman movie and I didn’t realize that my comments would make it into The Ringer piece or else I wouldn’t have cited that particular movie–I have no idea what the Batman script is like and I regret that it came off as if I was disparaging the project. Another reason to be careful giving interviews."
Thing is, Batman has committed homicides in every film he's been in since 1989; except Batman and Robin. Not saying it's right, but it didn't seem to be an issue before Snyder made his film.
Oh, it absolutely was an issue. Lots of people over the years have complained about Batman killing in the Burton films. But the Schumacher and Nolan films both treated it as something relatively rare, something Batman usually avoided but occasionally did to the main villains. (I remember how thrilled I was in Batman Forever when a henchman was teetering on the edge of an open elevator shaft and Batman caught him and pulled him to safety, rather than pushing him off as Burton and Keaton's Batman probably would have.) So Snyder's Batman going back to killing casually and frequently is an escalation to a level we haven't seen in Batman movies for the past two decades.
BS. Batman has been killing criminals since 1939. Get over it.
People keep misrepresenting that as if it had been some unchanging constant for 77 years, which is obviously nonsense when discussing a character whose adventures have been told by hundreds of different creators in varying different eras. Yes, Batman regularly killed in his first year or two. So did Superman, as a matter of fact. But then there was an editorial crackdown on the violence as the comics became more youth-friendly, and within a few years it was being explicitly and repeatedly stated in the comics that Batman (and Superman) had never taken a life and never would. And obviously no comic-book superhero would've been portrayed as a killer during the era that the Comics Code Authority was in effect, which was why the few surviving superhero comics became fanciful and fluffy and even more kid-friendly. With a few controversial exceptions here and there, Batman's refusal to kill under any circumstances has been a defining trait of the character in the comics ever since. Even The Dark Knight Returns, which up to that point was the darkest, most cynical Batman story there had ever been, had Batman unable to go through with killing the Joker despite enormous provocation, leading Joker to somehow snap his own neck so that Batman would be blamed for it.
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