A Will Smith Sci-Fi Blockbuster Teased A Batman Movie That Almost Happened

You don’t have to exactly be a very powerful viewer to notice it “I’m a legend” terribly empty Times square Includes a huge advertising board with a Superman hallmark located inside the Batman ridge. When the film was released in 2007, most filmmakers were probably confused by this ad. In the end, we were less than a year away from “Dark Knight “‘s hot expected release. Was this Easter egg hint that a steel man might be related to Nolan’s bat version? Apparently it wasn’t.

No, this was actually a rude joke that referred to the “Batman vs. Superman” project WB Fast -followed in 2001. Enthusiastic to get out of Joel Schumacher’s “Batman & Robin high camp,” the studio hired “SE7en” writer Andrew Kevin Walker to do something more Frank Miller’s Ruoksiranistitie’s SuperShelian. He was joined by Wolfgang Petersen, who was just a great -handed storm. with.

Unfortunately, it shouldn’t have been. Walker’s sketch was a shock, too gloomy and violent for WB -Excs, so it brought Akiva Goldman, which despite the fact that the Geek community had won the Academy Award “Beautiful Mind”, “Batman & Robin’s” credited screenwriter. His rewrite was good enough to get Johnny Depp and Josh Hartnett to play Batman and Superman, but Petersen left the project “Troy” and it all broke down.

Goldsman’s sketch can be found on the web under the title “Asylum” and wakes up a creative compromise. I have never read Walker’s nature but I know it was set at 9/11 and did No Robin. Would this “Batman vs. Superman” gone to production, it is a virtual guarantee that “Batman Begins” would never have happened, which means that Nolan would have followed “insomnia” … “prisoner?” There is also a chance that the WB who wanted to keep him in the house would have measured his interest in the independent superman movie after development JJ Abrams’ Superman: Flyby “ And Michael Bay’s short flirting came empty.

Anyway, it is the universe where Petersen’s “Batman vs. Superman” got (and yes that the billboard was the idea of ​​”I am a legend” writer Goldsman). You just have to endanger the virus apocalypse that wiped 90 % of the population to see it.