So there is a little more than a month left till Batman The Dark Knight comes to theatres and it sparked a conversation between me and my friend Ari about a movie adaptation of Frank Miller’s classic The Dark Night Returns (Yes we’re dorks but he has a girlfriend and I’m married. Take that you crazy basement Dungeons And Dragons freaks!) If you don’t know the premise of the book then here it is…
Batman is 15 years retired and Gothom is falling back into dismay. The city is being taken over by a gang called the Mutants and crime is on a drastic rise. Bruce Wayne, now in his fifties, comes out of retirement to purge Gothom of it’s evil. Two face shows up with a brand new matching face and the Joker breaks out of Arkham Asylum to murder in the masses like only the Joker can do. And it all ends with a legendary showdown between Batman and Superman, turned government patsy. “The finest piece of comic art ever to be published in a popular edition…” (Stephen King) I think this kicks the crap out of Watchmen but that’s just me… And if they can get a film made…
This movie would be impossible to make though. It would have to be at least a two or three part film of two and half to three hours long each. Who would fund it being such a huge undertaking and time consumer? Lord of the Rings took two years to film! Like I said, this would be near impossible. But if it weren’t, this is my cast…
Bruce Wayne/Batman-Clive Owen 
I know what you’re thinking…WHAT! Ok. Just think about it. prosthetic makeup to make him look a little bit older and some American accent classes and he would be perfect. Dark enough to play Bats and suave enough to be Bruce Wayne.Plus he’s big enough to be the Batman Miller drew. Just picture the first scene with him on the news after his Farris 6000 pin wheels across the finish line, (his flaming coffin,) and then there he is; all mustached up. Come on!… You’re loving it, right?
Carrie Kelley/Robin-Ellen Page
Cute enough to give a little sex appeal and tom boy enough to pull off Robin. She already knows how to be a superhero playing Kitty Pride in X3.
James Gordon-Dennis Farina
Don’t get me wrong, Gary Oldman is awesome, but this Gordon needs to have a bit more attitude. Farina would be awesome. Just imagine him giving Yindel his speech about Roosevelt and pearl Harbor.
Ellen Yindel-
Jodi Foster
Jodi Foster is just great. She would give so much to this part. Kinda butch when she wants to be so that goes along with Yindel’s severe exterior.
That’s it for the good guys! Next time I try to crack The Joker, Harvey Dent, The Mutant leader and, of course, Superman…
(Hope I did ok. If not, I don’t really care! My blog, my cast! Take that!)
In Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, Signal is used as much to enhance the terror effect of Batman on criminal elements as a signal. Prosthetic Makeup
Can you elaborate on this Dodo?
i think that would be so cool! clive owen would be killer as bruce wayne/batman. i loved the dark knight returns! i could picture this happening!
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