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As for Vanessa Kirby, she'd be perfect. I would love to see another blonde Selina Kyle. I'm also hoping for more comic accurate depictions of these characters, especially Catwoman.
Looks like we're heading for a mainly British cast. Serkis, Pattinson and Kirby. Damn. Love it.
I agree! Also, another official announcement in the works?
https://www.cbr.com/dc-universe-batman-experience-sdcc/
https://batman-news.com/2019/07/18/robert-richardson-cinematographer-the-batman/
https://batman-news.com/2019/07/17/vanessa-kirby-catwoman-casting-rumors/
Hopefully, we'll hear other casting news soon!
Richardson on cinematographic duties is outstanding news.
One of the great still-living DOPs.
I was hoping for Michael Seresin, but Richardson is just as good.
Seresin would have been a shoe-in for this, I had assumed. But alas, like you, I'm happy anyway.
Remastered
Maybe he's doing the music score.
Holy information reveal! I might give this a try.
Holy Heartbreak, I wish this was not happening on that show
I overall prefer his work for IMAGE comics. That's where he's got to excel.
From 1940 to 1968, the Golden and Silver ages of comics, Batman was a costumed adventurer/detective who solved mysteries with his sidekick, though the stories took occasional detours into straight adventure (time travel or ordinary travel), noir (such as the story of Joe Chill) and sci-fi during the later 50s and early 60s.
After the Batman TV show and camp craze ended, Julius Schwartz and his writers, starting with Frank Robbins, took Batman back to basics by focusing on detective mysteries. Later writers, using the first Batman stories (especially Batman's origin) as an inspiration, "Marvelized" Batman, giving him the angst and personal problems typical of the superheroes of DC's competitor. In the 1980s Batman ventured into even more adult realms (political corruption, sexual trauma, etc.) courtesy of Frank Miller and Alan Moore. In the 1990s stunt storylines carried the day, and the parade of desperate novelties is still marching on as comic readership continues dwindling.
With that as a prelude, here are scattered thoughts on Birdleson's list of great Batman writers.
Denny O'Neil is undoubtedly one of the most important Batman writers, but I find that his work--collected in Showcase Presents: Batman Vol. 6--has not aged well. Too pulpy or too purple. The stories of Steve Englehart--the other writer who rebuilt Batman in the 70s (whose work is collected in Strange Apparitions)--hold up much better, showing greater engagement with Batman's past and stronger characterization.
Some unpopular opinions: I despise Jeph Loeb as a hamfisted hack who writes pompous prose and mysteries with insultingly contrived solutions. Grant Morrison is an intellectual's version of a "high-concept" writer: He's abuzz with ideas, some ingenious and others too clever by half, and usually weak in characterization.
Chuck Dixon is a solid (sometimes stolid) writer, but I ultimately don't think stunts like Knightfall amounted to much.
Frank Miller made Batman confront the modern world with riveting results. The Dark Knight Returns confronts the nature of vigilantism and facsim, while Year One makes the argument that Batman makes best sense in a city lost to everyday, realistic corruption rather than supervillains. On those works his reputation rests secure, despite the dreck perpetrated by his imitators (and later on himself).
Paul Dini has an edge on almost all great Batman writers, because Batman: The Animated Series is simply better than the comics.
Bill Finger's early work was indeed primitive at the start, but within a couple years wasn't. As the real creator of Batman and his world, he remains the most important Batman writer and certainly the greatest Batman writer of the Golden Age. During this period superhero comics really were written for 10 year olds. So if you treat these works as a children's literature, they're marvelous and have the structure of games: supervillain X pops out of jail, leaves clues for Batman to guess regarding the next crime (almost as if challenging Batman to play), Batman and Robin spring into action, are bested once, figure out the mystery, and best the villain (usually in a fight scene involving an oversized prop or outlandish setting). Finger also had the ability to write complete mystery stories within 10 pages.
The other great Golden Age writer was Don Cameron, who write light humored stories with much charm (i.e., the sort of qualities no one reads Batman for today) and played a vital role in developing the characters of Alfred and the Penguin.
Mike W. Barr is a very interesting writer because he "gave us a harder and darker Batman" while simultaneously harking back to the Silver Age Batman. Barr's Batman is the only one who calls Robin "chum" on one page and fatally uses a criminal as a body shield on another (his work was recently collected in Batman: The Dark Knight Detective Vol. 1)
Another writer I would like to single out for praise is Len Wein, another Marvelizer of Batman. His work (collected in Tales of the Batman: Len Wein) is both humane and humanist, informed by deep love of the characters and noticeable for long subplots that run across issues. Doug Moench followed in Wein (and Gerry Conway's) footsteps but in my opinion was not as effective and wrote stilted prose.
I'm happy.
Really liked the montage of Batman and Catwomen fighting crime tegether!
Worth a look.
It's a good new entry in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series, but it's not the entire story so if anything, @LeonardPine, I suggest you read that TP Hush, it's really worth it. :)
Would have preferred Robert Richardson but Fraser is a good DP too.
Cool. Will give it a go.
Epic!
I think this is one of the greatest scenes in TV or Cinema, its bloody incredible and its about the build up.
So many levels...
Not to beat the past, but it would have been interesting. Maybe in the future, though...
Still one of the best hero-villain team-ups in comic book movie history.
Not even a big fan of Affleck’s Batman, but this interests me a lot more than what’s coming.