It's Saturday, so I thought I'd read a fun script. I stumbled upon Asylum (aka: Batman vs. Superman). This script was dated 6/21/02. So this was 5 years after Batman and Robin and 3 years before Batman Begins. At this point in time this could never be produced because as the Joker said in The Dark Knight "Those mob fools want you gone so they can get back to the way things were. But I know the truth - there's no going back. You've changed things. Forever." This script is very comic booky. It would fit well after Batman and Robin, obviously it's way better and is foreshadowing of the darkness the the Nolan films. There are many problems is that many of the important events of the script don't seem like they could fit into this new Batman world.
THIS SECTION OF THE POST CONTAINS MAJOR PLOT POINTS
It's hard to imagine a way that Robin could fit into the world that Nolan has created. The Nolan Batman would never adopt an orphan and train him to fight crime. We see in The Dark Knight the lack of respect he has for other people trying to follow him into crime fighting. Also, the Nolan Batman lives in the real world, and the cloning of the Joker and him being the exact same with the same personality, and possibly memories. But, I think the most unbelievable part is the existence of Superman. Batman exists in the real world and Superman just doesn't fit.
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When Christopher Nolan made his Batman he chnaged the game. Batman can't fight weird costumed characters, everything has to be rooted in reality. Even his Joker, his Scarecrow are rooted in reality. They may be weird - but they're at least possible. Toymaker may be able to exist. Lex Luthor in a robotic exo-suit could exist. Superman can't. It violates the rules that Nolan put into place. This is the real world. Superman exists in fantasy.
I guess the lesson I took out of this is when you ake choices about your world, you're eliminating other things you can do. If you have a real world, a man can't fly. If you have a fantasy world, even based in reality, then the things that can happen are greater, but then your audience has to suspend even more disbelief.
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