Hey folks, Harry here with the latest info on Aronofsky and the BY1... Seems that Darren is sitting down to begin writing on BATMAN YEAR ONE with Frank Miller now.... meaning they'll probably be done... the end of January... so the earliest they could shoot the film, given regular pre-production time on a Bats flick is... end of the summer, (design, casting, set preps) So let us all hope that they can get the strike settled.... Meanwhile I hear Boaz and crew are getting BATMAN BEYOND in lean and mean cool shape... though no DETAILS at all... dagnamit... Here ya go....
Hi Harry,
Don't know if you have this - This appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times dated: 11.14.2000 by Cindy Pearlman.
SAME BAT CHANNEL: Batman is going to be hitting the couch.
Who knew the superhero needed a shrink? "I wanted to introduce some Freudian psychology and answer the question: What does it take for a real man to put on tights and fight crime. I promisethat this time Batman will be a complex character with issues", says hot director Darren Aronofsky ("Requiem for the Dream"), who sits down this week to write "Batman: Year One"
contrary to press reports, this extremely hush-hush project will not star one of those "Dawson's Creek" boys. "It's not the teen Batman. But we do tell the origins story," Aronofsky divulges. "We learn how Batman saw his parents killed in front of him by a gunman and then trained himself to fight crime"
Aronofsky is working with Frank Miller, who wrote the '80's comics "The Dark Knight Returns." As far as casting rumours that Ben Affleck might be the guy in latex, aronofsky says, "It's really premature. Honestly, I haven't thought about it."
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Ian The Intern
