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 Christopher Nolan to Tackle Batman
By Cmaster2 on January 29, 2003 11:08 AM
Memento filmmaker Christopher Nolan has been confirmed as the next person to tackle the ailing Batman franchise. The British director, whose most recent film Insomnia starred Al Pacino, has signed a deal with studio giant Warner Bros, who currently have three new Batman projects in development.
Nolan says, "I grew up with Batman, I've been fascinated by him and I'm excited to contribute to the lore surrounding the character. Batman is the most credible and realistic of the superheroes, and has the most complex human psychology. His superhero qualities come from within. He's not a magical character. I had a fantastic experience with the studio on Insomnia and I'm keen to repeat that experience."
The Batman franchise started strongly in the late 1980s, with Michael Keaton starring as the caped crusader in the first film and Batman Returns, but the two following movies - Batman Forever with Val Kilmer and Batman And Robin with George Clooney - flopped.
The other two Batman projects are Batman: Year One, a darker tale to be directed by Requiem For A Dream's Darren Aranofsky and Catwoman, which follows the story of Michelle Pfeiffer's Batman Returns character. Kiss The Girls star Ashley Judd is reported to be taking over the role.
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Can't you sleep, Batman?
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on January 29, 2003 4:47 PM
Ashley Judd? Great, now like the 60's sitcom, Catwoman is changing hair, skin, everything. The only thing in common with both actress is the lack of breasts.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 30, 2003 6:39 AM
Wait there's going to be two new, completely different Batman movies? Oh well.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 31, 2003 5:03 AM
It's over. Get over it. Dead, done, pushing up daisies, just give it up for God's sake.
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on January 31, 2003 11:45 AM
Those guys are probably thinking in the sequel of Titanic too.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 3, 2003 6:13 AM
Okay, if it's like the first Batman movie then it will be good. If it's like the forth Batman movie it will be a steaming pile of maggot sh*t. It's as simple as that.
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on February 3, 2003 5:03 PM
What if it's like second and/or third?
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 5, 2003 5:40 AM
If that's the case then it could go either way.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 7, 2003 5:20 AM
Eloquently put.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 10, 2003 5:53 AM
No sweat.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 11, 2003 6:36 AM
Sweet.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 12, 2003 8:25 AM
Dude.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 13, 2003 8:19 AM
Seriously Dude, where's my car?
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 17, 2003 6:30 AM
I've never seen that movie.
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on February 18, 2003 5:40 PM
I think it was the first with joke of Uranus.
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on February 18, 2003 5:41 PM
I think it was the first with the joke of Uranus.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 19, 2003 5:41 AM
I to am agreeing
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 19, 2003 5:42 AM
I agree with you.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 24, 2003 8:14 AM
Gee whiz buddy, wanna go play some stickball?
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 25, 2003 7:13 AM
It's like baseball only you play it with a stick.
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on February 25, 2003 1:06 PM
And what do you use as the ball and the glove?
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 26, 2003 4:38 AM
It's just what poor kids play who can't afford a proper baseball bat. So, yous guys wanna go play?
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on February 28, 2003 1:32 PM
No, thanks. The rest of the world's poor kids plays football soccer. Me too.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 3, 2003 9:03 AM
Football soccer? what's that? Soccer that you play with your hands?
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on March 3, 2003 5:37 PM
It's football for all the world excepting the US, so I add the word soccer so you can understand what I'm talking about.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 4, 2003 8:32 AM
Hey, we may be American but we're not stupid! Of course I know that soccer is called football everywhere else. The only reason we don't call it football too is because since we've already got a sport with that name it would get confusing.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 6, 2003 5:56 AM
Yea but it would be pretty dumb if we called it that too. What would be next? American Basketball, American Baseball, American Ping Pong?
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on March 6, 2003 4:17 PM
No, cause those are sports played everywhere in the same way, unlike football. Hell, there's Australian Football, mixing rugby and soccer.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 10, 2003 5:26 AM
It would still be easier if the rest of the world just called it 'Soccer'
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on March 10, 2003 6:10 PM
I think not, and by several reasons.
1- Like the patents, if the first using the name has the right to own it, british invented the football around 1850 or so. Yours is newest.
2- If you guys like and respect democracy so much like your president is saying those days, majority decides, and 99% of the world's population (6 billion less the US) doesn't call it soccer.
3- Yours is played with the arms almost all the time with the passes, excepting the field goals, which by the way, are dominated by foreigners, who are good kickers just because they play since childhood a sport that involves the feet, football.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 11, 2003 9:09 AM
That's only three reasons dude, I'm just saying that there is only one thing that 'Soccer' means, what's so wrong about that name? By the way, I thought Soccer was invented in China.
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on March 11, 2003 4:05 PM
No, there wasn't invented in China. And it's the same with the name "America": it's a continent, not a country. I just hate that attitude of the US "now we are here and we dictate everything".
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 12, 2003 6:21 AM
You've got South America which includes the likes of Brazil and Argentina etc... then there's North America which includes USA, Canada etc... But there's only one AMERICA- THE USA.
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on March 12, 2003 8:41 PM
America is a continent, you self-absorved yank. Named after Americo Vespucio, first explorer who found the Pacific Ocean in the XVI century.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 13, 2003 4:42 AM
Look, you can call your crazy, mixed up country whatever the hell you want, but ours is called AMERICA.
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on March 13, 2003 1:06 PM
It's United States of America. But how about the States who are not United to yours? Still America.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 14, 2003 5:30 AM
Which states would those be?
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on March 14, 2003 3:35 PM
Without mentioning the islands (Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, etc), the Guayanas (the french one, the british one, and Surinam, the dutch one) and Belize (I don't know if it's free or an US protectorate or something like that), you have from north to south, Canada, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, San Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brasil, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and last but not least, Argentina.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 17, 2003 5:44 AM
Eh dude, those are countries not states. I'd lay off the wacky tobaccy if I were you.
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on March 19, 2003 4:06 PM
They are States too, as in Governments. In spanish, the states are provinces. Anyway, what about the other states of America in the other countries then?
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 20, 2003 5:23 AM
What the Hell did you just say!?
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 26, 2003 2:48 AM
You'd better re-cog-nise.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 29, 2003 4:12 PM
Look, I understand the hesitation everyone has with the idea of these new Batman additions to the ongoing series. But I would think there would be just a bit more excitement. What did everyone LOVE about the 1989 Batman movie? The DARKNESS... right? I think everyone tends to forget this and is jaded by the last two homoerotic dance flicks that the last two have been. But what people don't seem to be rec-cog-nizing, are who the new directors are. Christopher Nolan, If anyone has seen his 3 films (The Following, Memento, Insomnia) they would know that he doesn't exactly have the lightest sense of film or "campy" feeling that we tend to associate with the current state of the Batman series.
Now for Batman: Year 1.
DARREN ARANOFSKY!
HAS ANYONE SEEN 'PI' OR REQUIM FOR A DREAM?!?!?!?!?!
I CAN"T THINK OF ANYONE WITH A DARKER SENSE OF DIRECTION!!!!
JESUS CHRIST! QUIT YOUR FRIGGIN COMPLAINING AND WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE A PIECE OF CRAP ON THE SCREEN BEFORE YOU EVEN GO AND SEE IT!
As for Catwoman... yeah. I don't know much about this one....I think this could suck, or maybe not.
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