What If Batman Had a New Tv show?

[samurainoir]

Mine too. I bought the GN the week it came out, not really knowing much about it. LOVED it.
In fact, I think I'll dig it out and reread it. Been since I first bought since I read it.

I think for me, this was when it seemed Mignola really found his "voice" as an artist, capturing that kind of shadowy mood that he would later translate into Hellboy.

[fallensaviour]

I pitched WB television a gritty, comic book style, Batman series five years ago, in the style of Batman Dead End-- Muscular guy in a cloth suit. My idea was to do different famous Batman comics (Dark Knight Returns, Long Halloween, Gotham by Gaslight, Year One, Killing Joke, etc...) as 2 to 4 part miniseries, as a weekly TV series. They seemed uninterested, saying that they felt it wouldn't be popular.

SC

Then the WB is just way tooooo stupid to see a great thing!!!
I Think a TV series based character wise off of the Dead end show you show cased would have been the biggest thing batman ever did since the 60's!!!

As long as your pitching shows why don't you give Joss whedon a call and tell him to relight the "Firefly".You'll help him out...

[BlackKnight]

"what if Batman had a New TV show ? "

... It would look like General Hospital with a few Special Effects here and there.
Oohhh, wait, That's Smallville .

[Orion]

Then the WB is just way tooooo stupid to see a great thing!!!
I Think a TV series based character wise off of the Dead end show you show cased would have been the biggest thing batman ever did since the 60's!!!

Agreed. I really enjoyed Dead End and think that type of presentation would work well as an hour long show. A Year One adaptation would be so fun to watch.

[Cmonster]

Am I to presume that C-Monster made Batman Dead End?

Who? Me?

SC

[Raydeen1]

I think you're reading something into what I wrote that isn't there. I didn't say I wanted camp...I want action, adventure and fun...not Adam West.

He can be dark and still be fun. JLU proves this. A bit of a mic between camp and the super dark Batman. Middle ground. Sort of on the lines of B&B but perhaps a bit more dark. BTAS-ish?

But you are forgetting that Batman year one 1939 Batman's world was grim and Gritty and not campy at all. The generation that was raised on those first comics were depression era kids who were raised on Hard boiled tough talking GUN shooting heroes...

Campy Batman came along later on........as a matter of fact by the 60's Batman was watered down and on the verge of cancelation.....it wasn't until he was bought back to his Dark gritty roots that he got popular again.

[Hector]

How about a future CBS installment of Survivor with all the fromer Batman actors?

Tribe A:

Adam West
Michael Keaton
Clark Bartram (the actor who played Batman in Dead End)

Tribe B:

George Clooney
Val Kilmer
Christian Bale

Winner takes all!

[kingdom warrior]

I think you're reading something into what I wrote that isn't there. I didn't say I wanted camp...I want action, adventure and fun...not Adam West.

He can be dark and still be fun. JLU proves this. A bit of a mic between camp and the super dark Batman. Middle ground. Sort of on the lines of B&B but perhaps a bit more dark. BTAS-ish?

Ok Got ya!

[kingdom warrior]

How about a future CBS installment of Survivor with all the fromer Batman actors?

Tribe A:

Adam West
Michael Keaton
Clark Bartram (the actor who played Batman in Dead End)

Tribe B:

George Clooney
Val Kilmer
Christian Bale

Winner takes all!

I can see a producer making the calls already......

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Some points to consider:

Will Kick-*** Kill Superhero Movies? - kick-*** - io9

Don C.

[Cmonster]

I can see a producer making the calls already......

Totally. Except they'd have to replace Clark. Hollywood doesn't want to admit that BDE really exists. Especially because it came way before Batman Begins.

SC

[kingdom warrior]

But we the Fans know it exist Hollywood is Blind...BDE is the best adaption of The comic book Batman to film ever.....That's the Batman I know.....not that armor wearing toy selling one.........

[thunderbolt]

A hybrid of the 66 show with something a bit more along the lines of Batman Year One would be cool. Wild over the top villains with a more serious Bats. Just like the 66 show, stars would be lining up for a guest shot playing Killer Moth or Black Mask.

[samurainoir]

Hmmmm....

Some points to consider:

Will Kick-*** Kill Superhero Movies? - kick-*** - io9

Don C.

In terms of genre cycles, if Superhero films are in fact entering the deconstructivist phase (ie in Westerns it was films like The Searchers and Little Big Man that played against it's trappings), what we should expect to see next are the wide spoofs signaling the end of the genre for a generation (Blazing Saddles was the nail on the coffin for the Western as a genre force before the age of the Spaceman took over once again in the 70's).

Although arguably there wasn't much of a lull between the two (three?) most recent superhero generations if we view Superman III and Greatest American Hero as the deconstruction/spoof and the '89 Batman movie as the launch of a new cycle). I suspect that might have more to do with advances in SFX than anything else.

[ctc]

>there wasn't much of a lull between the two (three?) most recent superhero generations

I've wondered for a little while how this sort of transition actually works. Things do seem to move in recognizable patterns (and not just entertainment) but I think the magnitude changes. (So, the last time around the western didn't have as much impact as it did in the 50's, but it still happened.) To that end, I sometimes wonder if nothing ever REALLY goes away, but when the magnitude changes things move to the background. There are always superheroes somewhere, but every so often the average person stops caring.

Don C.