Entertainment website Bleeding Cool is reported that The Dark Knight Returns is being adapted by the same team that worked on All Star Superman and the upcoming animated rendition of Batman: Year One.
Hailed as the defining treatment of Batman for the modern era, Frank Miller and Klaus Janson's The Dark Knight Returns is as bold and striking today as it was when it first hit comic book stores in 1986. The tale of Bruce Wayne - now 55-years old and having stopped being Batman ten years earlier - having the ultimate mid-life crisis and coming out of retirement into a world indifferent and even hostile to justice, not only broke new ground: it put Batman back on track to where he was perhaps always supposed to be.
I first read The Dark Knight Returns in the summer of 1989 (the summer of everything Batman) and ever since, I've been dreaming of a full-length feature adaptation of this story. Here's hoping that Warner Bros. won't be timid and will allow this film to have the hard "R" rating that it deserves. Yeah Warners, don't skimp on anything. Not even Bruno's exposed and swastika-tattooed breasts and buttocks (something that Batman creator Bob Kane confessed being mystified about). And however much money it takes, bring on Clint Eastwood to voice Batman!
Between that and nice long sequences of the scenes where Batman and his retinue are on horseback, this is already set to be animated glory.
(And hey, nice to have some good Batman news hot on the heels of those horrid costumes from the Batman Live show :-P)
Michael Ironside would be a good choice to voice Batman. He actually voiced him in the TDKR inspired segment in the Batman: The Animated Series episode, "Legends of the Dark Knight."
ReplyDeleteThat episode was awesome!!
ReplyDeletethis is great news...I was pleasantly suprised by how good the recent batman video game was, very true to batmans roots
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