Has anyone seen this Orson Welles Batman thing?

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http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=14

It's a couple of years old, so may have been covered already (and searches don't seem to work on my broswer), but shit, that would've been interesting.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

holy shit holy shit!!!

The real treat for me was the casting notes and confirmation letters from the actors themselves such as George Raft signing up for Two-Face (after Bogart turned it down), James Cagney as The Riddler, Basil Rathbone as The Joker and Welles' former lover Marlene Dietrich as a very exotic Catwoman

holy shit!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

GAG GAG GAG GAG GAG GAG

(as in, it's a joke)

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

The tragedy for movie buffs is that, like Welles' proposed adaptation of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," the world wouldn't get to see a Batman feature until the campy 1966 movie with Adam West.

There's a campy Adam West version of "Heart of Darkness"???

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Damn, david, you're right:

http://www.tagliners.org/archive/003611.html

Still, it's a really nice idea. Had me fooled.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

And so this thread becomes:
PROPOSED CASTS/DIRECTORS OF YESTERYEAR FOR SUPERHERO MOVIES THAT NEVER WERE (OR SOMETHING)

Don't have time myself to play right now, but see what you can come up with.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

oh man, i was creamin' the ol' jeans there

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Ed Woods' Crisis On Infinite Earths!!!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Herschell Gordon Lewis' Identity Crisis!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Uwe Boll's Maus!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Rob Reiner's When Batman met Superman

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Joel Schumacher's Strangers In Paradise

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Mel Brooks' Dark Knight Returns

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Harold Ramis' Watchmen (starring Bill Murray, John Candy, Nancy Allen, and Rick Moranis as Ozymandias)

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Heh, I saw this about two years ago and fell for it hard.

It still pitches a tent in my trousers to contemplate, though.

Wasn't there an Elseworlds book where Bruce Wayne is basically Charles Foster Kane?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

A really unfunny early eighties version of Cerebus starring Warwick davies in a crap suit as Cerebus, Carrie Fisher as Astoria and Goldie Hawn as Red sophia.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Merchant and Ivory present Jeremy Irons and Helena Bonham-Carter in Superman Vs. Muhammed Ali

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Russ Meyers presents Birds of Prey, with Tura Satana as Oracle!!!

― Mark C (Markco), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

SCHWING!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Sam Peckinpah's Dark Knight Returns, with Harvey Keitel as Batman and Vincent Price as Superman.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

no!!! apocalypse-era brando!!! i gotta keep saying it!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Maybe Last Tango sized Brando.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Bat-Butter

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

I always thought Peckinpah would have made a good Sin City movie.

When I was a teenager I used to dream about a Shade movie by David Lynch.

And though I haven't seen Fantastic Four yet, I don't know why I can't shake off my mind the idea of an FF flick by Wes Anderson. It would be radically different from Lee & Kirby, but it could be fun. Though now that I think about, Anderson could tackle almost every superhero I can think of and make it fun.

Off-topic: if Emma Frost ever makes an appearance in the silver screen, she should be played by Kylie Minogue.

― iodine (iodine), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Oh and dunno about Batman and Charles Foster Kane (Citizen Wayne? mmm, I guess it does sound kinda familiar) but there sure was a Superman Elseworlds based on Metropolis and a Batman one based on Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu.

― iodine (iodine), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Michael Bay's David Boring!

― iodine (iodine), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

s1ocki you didn't even quote the best part - GREGORY PECK as bruce wayne!!!!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

isn't Kylie about three feet too short to play Emma Frost?

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

In the new Year One HC, Mazzuchelli's sketchs show how he based his Wayne on Gregory Peck...

― David N (David N.), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

"isn't Kylie about three feet too short to play Emma Frost?"

Hey, but she can't have been that tall...Most of those X-Men outfits used to have those spicegirlish stilt-boots.

― iodine (iodine), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

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