B A T M A N BEGINS

[a007apl]

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[corvette97]

another movie?? GREAT!!

[Toronto]

ya i heard a guy from the UK is playing batman, that is like an american playing james bond?

[mvu00]

nooo.. an american playing 007 would be a disaster :P , but I think an english guy playing batman wouldnt be so bad

[a007apl]

I believe that movie its the DARK site of Batman, and he its the best hero because dont have super power, he have IQ :wink:

[blah]

Also it doesnt hurt he drives a American powered car. mmmmmmm Batmobile aka the Trans AM.

[antonioledesma]

Great!!! :D
i love batman

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I don't remember the actor's name

hope it's like the Dark Knight Retuns comic (Frank Miller), so dark... but I think it'll be the first years of the bat

[teto]

when will we be able to see it? has the film been shut allready?

[antonioledesma]

judging by the pics, it is being made. The release date still is unknown.
stay tuned on this bat-channel, at the same bat-web site

[T-Bird]

his name is christian bale check this forum... http://www.motorworld.net/forum/showthread.php?p=152976&sid=9f471fc60001d2c4f7b01e7fdb456897#152976
and the batmobile is not a trans am

[possessed_beaver]

I believe that movie its the DARK site of Batman, and he its the best hero because dont have super power, he have IQ :wink:

happy that you're hero is making a movie?

[Kangaroo Boy]

Talking about James bond,Isn't there going to be another James Bond Movie comming out.If so who is playing James Bond?Hugh Jackman???

[Toronto]

i herd that sean connery wants cuba gooding junior to play the role of james bond,
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but he has no say in it, but that would be like the englishman playing batman? would it not?

[a007apl]

I believe that movie its the DARK site of Batman, and he its the best hero because dont have super power, he have IQ :wink:

happy that you're hero is making a movie?
You're remember that my t-shirt of course 8)

[gis]

Talking about James bond,Isn't there going to be another James Bond Movie comming out.If so who is playing James Bond?Hugh Jackman???

i heard there is a new james bond coming out and i was told that peirce brosnen is goin to be doin it,his last james bond movie.it was ont he news a few weeks back coz he wanted a certain female to play the role of his "lover" in the film,cant remember who it was though.

[Jabba]

Great!!! :D
i love batman

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I don't remember the actor's name

hope it's like the Dark Knight Retuns comic (Frank Miller), so dark... but I think it'll be the first years of the bat

That is Jim Carey pet detective....dont know how many more times I have got to post this.

[oscargarza88]

^^^
jabba r u 100% sure?!?!
cause he looks a little like him but he looks real different

[killer66]

Batman Begins is not a continuation of the other batman movies. It is based on Frank Miller's novel Batman:Year One. Which is a great story of Brue Wayne becoming batman. I can't wait to see the film. It looks like it with restart the batman movies again and we can forget all about the last Batman distasters.

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Premise: This is an "orign film" with no ties to the previous BATMAN films directed by Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher. The first half of this film will feature a young Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) on his journey to become The Batman. This will be done through a series of flashbacks to Bruce's childhood--his parent's murder, his plan for revenenge, Bruce leaving Gotham for Asia (where he is befriended and trained by Liam Neeson's Henri Ducard), his return to Gotham, on up to the point where he takes on the mantle of The Bat. At that point, the film will become an elaborate action adventure in which The Batman will be heavily featured. Villians include Dr. Jonathan Crane (Cillian Murphy), Ra's Al Ghul (Ken Watanabe), mob boss Carmine Falcone (Tom Wilkinson), Wayne Enterprises interim CEO Mr. Earle (Rutger Hauer), and others (Det. Flass, Judge Phelan) . The movie will also feature a young Sgt.--and later Lt.--Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman), who allies himself with "The Batman" to weed out the coruption and crime that has overtaken Gotham. And of course, The Batman's trusty butler/partner, Alfred Pennyworth (Sir Michael Caine) is a major part of the story.



Official Warner Bros. Synposis:
Director Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia) and screenwriter David S. Goyer (the Blade trilogy) join forces for another action-packed chapter of the Batman saga!

As a young boy, Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of him--a trauma that leads him to become obsessed with revenge. But the opportunity to avenge his parent's deaths is cruelly taken away from him by fate.

Fleeing to the East, where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra's Al-Ghul, Bruce returns to his now decaying Gotham City, which is overrun by organized crime and other dangerous individuals manipulating the system. Meanwhile, Bruce is slowly being swindled out of Wayne Industries, the company he inherited.

The discovery of a cave under his mansion, along with a prototype armored suit, leads him to assume a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong; he becomes Batman!!!

In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan 'The Scarecrow' Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.

[a007apl]

What's it about? Young Bruce Wayne witnesses the murder of his parents and is left alone to mourn his loss. He promises that he will rid the city of the evil that took their lives. He would train and strike fear into the hearts of the seedy underworld of Gotham city. He would become a symbol. He would become...a bat. This story is the genesis of the legendary dark knight, Batman.

[a007apl]

March 16, 2004 - As we all now know, Batman Begins started shooting a few weeks ago in Iceland. Not a lot is known other than the fact that this will be a completely new Batman series unrelated to the Joel Schumacher fiasco of the late '90s. The director is Christopher Nolan, the writer is David S. Goyer and Christian Bale is Batman. Michael Caine plays Wayne's butler, Alfred, and Katie Holmes is the dark knight's love interest.


At the press junket for Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed this past Saturday, IGN was able to dig up a few more details on Batman Begins from producer Charles Roven. While most involved on the project have been very tight-lipped, Roven seemed very excited to talk about the success of the first few weeks of production.

"It's a very exciting, big film," says Roven. "There's no question about that. We started shooting a week ago in Iceland. Actually two weeks ago in Iceland. We were hit by the most crazy weather. It would be sunny and within two hours we were in a rain storm with 75 mile an hour winds, but we kept shooting. Things have been going very well. We start shooting, the main shooting, in London on Monday. I'm flying back for that. We've got a fantastic cast."

While rumors have circulated on the casting of the new Batman series for a number of years now, most fans are pretty happy with the choice of Christian Bale. We asked Roven what made Bale stand out as the dark knight: "His screen test, really. He gave just an amazing screen test. Well, many of the actors that screen-tested were really good. I don't want to say that they weren't. It's just that he brought that charm that a billionaire playboy would have when he was playing Bruce Wayne. He brought that intensity that you would want Batman to have as this dark knight. And also, in the scenes with Katie Holmes, very romantic. Even if the romance was only subtextual, it was there."

If the series hits, Bale is also signed for the sequels. "He knew that if he was going to do Batman, if we were fortunate, we would be doing more than one. I don't remember [how many he is signed to], actually. Even the old Batman, the Batman that was started by Tim Burton, went through the change from Keaton to Val Kilmer, and the Val Kilmer version, which was, I think, Batman Forever, was a very successful movie. So, it didn't rely on Michael Keaton even though he's a fabulous actor and was a fabulous Batman."

Many scripts and screenwriters have also fallen by the wayside during pre-production on a new Batman movie. David S. Goyer ultimately took a crack at the script and found himself with the winning hand. "[It was a] great script." says Roven. "I think that his collaboration with Chris Nolan was what was exciting. They both wanted to do a different kind of Batman. I don't want to say they wanted to make it less comic book. In fact they wanted to make it to be more like the original Detective Comics when Batman first started, which was less cartoony. Less campy, less comic book. Less comic booky as opposed to comic book. And so, that's what's so great about this script is that it's got a true sense of reality about it and it goes into really great detail about how Bruce Wayne [became Batman], why he picked Batman as the icon he wanted to be as the dark knight and his whole journey of leaving his billions as Bruce Wayne and becoming this character and does it in a very real way. You would believe somebody who came from that background and had the tragedy of having his parents killed in front of him, he might gravitate to that. The mentors that he had to help him grow to this, and also the technology is very real, very scientifically based that you could [believe it]. The batmobile is fantastic and, in being fantastic, you could see that one could be created today. And the same thing with the Batsuit, it could be created today. And all of the gadgetry that he's got..."


While no pictures have yet surfaced of the bat suit or Batman's gadgets, Roven was willing to disclose a few details on the infamous Batmobile. "We've been shooting the Batmobile and it's just a fantastic piece of equipment. It drives very fast, it goes well within excess of a 100 miles an hour, it can get up there within a quarter mile, it turns on a dime, it's got no front axle, it's just spectacular. It flies, I mean it jumps. But it's all practical. I would say that this is a cross between a Humvee and a Lamborghini Countach."

While everyone knows Batman Begins is far from cheap, Roven wouldn't disclose specifics. "You know, it's definitely a nine figure budget. You know, I think when you're dealing with franchises like that, it's about all revenue, making money or not. Surely these movies, all of these movies, have to do in excess of a 100 million dollars in U.S. box office to be successful. Not that they can't make money without it. They can. I don't think that our Batman cost any more money than [Last Samurai] even though they're both in excess of a 100 million dollars. The point is, today, Last Samurai is immensely successful, hugely successful for the studio, and that movie didn't have any merchandising so its ancillaries are only the audio/visual ancillaries, even though it only did 114 or 120 million dollars in the United States."

One of the biggest tasks for Batman Begins when it comes to promotion will be to disassociate itself from the previous series and the awful final chapter, Batman and Robin, in particular. "Oh no, we will. Absolutely. I think the last one was the problem, I don't think it was the one before that. That's part of our job is to make them forget that. I think we will. How about this: On the research that we did around the world, [the Batman character] has 100 percent awareness. I'm just saying that people are interested in this character, just like they are Superman, just like they are Spider-Man. The thing that makes Batman different is he has no super powers."
-- Jeff Otto

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[ae86_16v]

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Looking good. . . too bad it is still June of 2005. I can't wait. Always been a Batman fan.

But what the hell is up with the new Batmobile?!?! Is it a car or a tank?!?!

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[a007apl]

The script (http://www.moviespoilers.net/batman_script.pdf)

dont official i believe

[DanielW]

that guy played in the american psycho.