Batman has been one of the most popular superheroes since the dawn of comic book era. We have watched a huge number of big-screen and small-screen projects centering on the Caped Crusader - animated as well as live-action. But there have also been a number of projects that never saw daylight.
A live-action big-screen adaptation of the well received animated series Batman Beyond is one of those abandoned projects. Remember the Titans director Boaz Yakin was about to helm the movie. In a recent interview with IGN, Boaz talked about the movie - how it would have been and why it never happened.
First of all, let's check out why Batman Beyond seemed to the director the right thing to follow. Here's what Boaz said:
“Batman seems to be popular in any iteration. I think [Batman Beyond] is apart enough from the regular Batman that people are allowed to play in that playground, without sort of f***ing with continuity and all this stuff that people are so concerned with. It’s a different look at the character.”
Almost Like Sam Raimi's Spider-Man But"¦!
Batman Beyond
The director along with the creators of the animated series - Paul Dini and Alan Burnett - worked in developing a script for the live-action Batman Beyond movie. According to Boaz, the script… (Continued to Page 2)
(Continued from Page 1)… was pretty close to Sam Raimi's big-screen adaptation of the web-slinger but "˜a little darker - a teenage, kind of futuristic, cyberpunk Batman thing'.
At another point in the interview, the director claimed that it was one of the finest of scripts he has ever worked on. He stated:
"I went off and wrote the best script I ever wrote that never got made."
Why Batman Beyond Movie Didn't Happen?
Boaz Yakin
It wasn't Warner Bros who forced the project to shut down – it was actually Boaz himself who eventually stepped out of it. And there wasn't any kind of a clash as the director suggests - he simply realized that he didn't actually want to do the movie. Here's what he said:
“[I] very quickly got the feeling that I would be in the zone, the madness, and I didn’t really have the heart for it at the time and I basically bailed after one draft. I just went, ‘I can’t do this.’”
Would you have loved to watch the live-action Batman Beyond movie? Or, do you feel it is fine the movie didn't happen because we got Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy just a few years later? Share your thoughts via comments!
