Unproduced Batman Scripts

[mijder]

So I've read the Kevin Smith Superman script and loved it. Does anyone know where I can find similarly unproduced Batman scripts? I would love to read them. Or, could you recommend some other unproduced gems of major geek properties, like that unproduced american Godzilla script I enjoyed so much oh so long ago?

[Dino]

Before McDonald's complained that kids weren't buying enough Happy Meals after Batman Returns, Burton was beginning to work on the third Batman movie and the rumor is he only wanted the Riddler and wanted Robin Williams to play him, and he was going to bring in Marlon Wayans as a very different kind of Robin.

www.geocities.com/burtonsbatman3/intro.html

This site has the most info I've ever been able to find on it, which is not saying much.


There was also at one point supposed to be an Aronofsky-helmed Year One film, a Batman/Superman film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a live-action Batman Beyond film. Plus, after Batman & Robin, Clooney and Schumacher were originally going to do a fifth film featuring the Scarecrow and Harley Quinn with Nicholson confirmed as returning as the Joker for a fear toxin sequence. But again, all of these were just in the very initial stages, so it's likely no scripts exist.

[Derrick]

For a very, very VERY brief time there were pictures of Marlon Wayans posted online with him in a Robin costume that looked very similar to costume Tim Drake wore when he first started out as Robin. Those pictures were removed pretty damn quickly...in fact, I believe they were removed later on the same day I saw them.

I had heard stories that Marlon Wayans was going in for costume fittings in preparation to play Robin. I would have been intrigued to see how he would have handled the role. Even though I think in the movies Batman works best without Robin. And since he has Lucius Fox and Alfred as backup/support does he really need a Robin?

And while Marlon Wayans was totally awful in DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, his performance in Darren Aronofsky's REQUIEM FOR A DREAM shows that when he has the right director and a solid script he's capable of an outstanding performance.

[james]

You can read about Marlon Wayans' involvement in the Batman films in an Onion AV Club interview:

www.avclub.com/articles/marlon-wayans,13500/

He was eventually paid to not be in two of the films. What a paycheck!

[Dino]

I believe Tim Burton actually worked with DC's artists at the time to redesign Robin's costume. You'd think WB would have released those images, especially with the recent release of the two-disc editions of the original Batman films (there was a storyboarded sequence for the first Batman that featured a scene with Dick Grayson).

Marlon Wayans' Robin wasn't going to be Dick Grayson, wasn't really going to be any Robin we've seen before, actually. Robin was actually his name and he was a street kid who befriended Bruce and helped him out with his mechanical work. After the Batmobile was destroyed in Batman Returns, Robin was supposed to come in and help fix it and because of the magnitude of the Penguin's threat, would have suited up to help Batman.

I do agree that Wayans is an underrated actor and I'm sure he would have done a great job. But I'm not so sure if I would have liked this reworked version of Robin.

[tombitd]

Apr 22, 2009 7:38:19 GMT -5 Dino said:

I believe Tim Burton actually worked with DC's artists at the time to redesign Robin's costume. You'd think WB would have released those images, especially with the recent release of the two-disc editions of the original Batman films (there was a storyboarded sequence for the first Batman that featured a scene with Dick Grayson).

Neal Adams confirms that this is true in The Titans Companion 2--that he and a number of other artists were asked to submit designs that would look good cinematically, and that Burton was in on settling on the design we now know as the Tim Drake costume.