You don’t really need to be an ultra-atterent spectator to notice that The strange square of the empty time of “I am legend” Contains a huge display panel with superman insignia nestled in the Batman crest. When the film was released in 2007, most moviegoers were probably perplexed by this advertisement. After all, we were less than a year old from the eagerly awaited release of “The Dark Knight”. Did it refer to Easter eggs that the steel man could join the payment of the Nolan bat? Obviously, this was not the case.
No, it was actually a cheeky in-playant referring to the project “Batman vs Superman” WB Fast-Track in 2001. Eager to move away from the high camp of the “Batman & Robin” by Joel Schumacher, the studio hired “Se7en Screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker to do something in the back of the vein of Frank Miller ‘de Frank Miller’ de Frank Miller ‘ Miller “. This paired him with director Wolfgang Petersen, who had just delivered for the studio with the 2000 blockbuster “The Perfect Storm”. The comic fans were especially good with Petersen, but they were completely amplified to see Walker bring his wild sensitivity to Batman. It could be the film they initially thought they were getting with “Batman” from Burton.
Unfortunately, it shouldn’t be. Walker’s draft was, the shock of shocks, too dark and violent for WB executives, so it brought Akiva Goldsman, who, despite the Academy Prize for writing “A Beautiful Mind”, has always been abjured by the Geek community to be the scriptwriter credited with “Batman & Robin”. His rewriting was good enough for Johnny Depp and Josh Hartnett to play respectively, Batman and Superman, but Petersen left the project to do “Troy”, how much everything collapsed.
Goldsman’s draft can be found online under the title “Asylum”, and he starts a creative compromise again. I have never read the Walker project, but I know it was located in a post-11/11 world and that I did it not Robin characteristic. If this “Batman against Superman” had come into production, it is a virtual guarantee that “Batman begins” would never have taken place, which means that Nolan would have followed “Insomnia” with … “The prisoner?” There is also a chance that WB, who wanted to keep it at home, would have assessed his interest in an autonomous superman film after development “Superman: Flyby” by JJ Abrams And Michael Bay’s brief flirt came for nothing.
Anyway, there is a universe in which “Batman against Superman” of Petersen was created (and, yes, this display panel was the idea of the Goldsman writer). You just need to risk a viral apocalypse that has destroyed 90% of the population to see it.
