Comments on: Sylvester Stallone as the Dark Knight?

By: All Ninja

All Ninja — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:19:54 +0000

That would just not work! Please don't ruin a couple of great movies by doing this. Would still like Miller to direct the next one though.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:11:55 +0000

Yeah, yeah, yeah… my geek creds are in serious jeopardy. I've avoided comics/graphic novel because of OCD tendedncies. That'd be an expensive habit.

By: jack

jack — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:47:55 +0000

i think stallone wouldn't be that bad as the old batman. i think it could work out pretty well actually. and really he's probably got close to if not already the build of how batman would be at that age. especially if you compare stallone to an image of batman from dkr. batman is huge!

By: Jake Lockley

Jake Lockley — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:09:41 +0000

You haven't read Miller's work!?! Dark Knight Returns is a must read. It's what reinvented Batman in films as something other than a campy parody of what is in the comics. That and pre-Sin City Frank Miller is some of the best comic book writing ever. Ronin was also one of my favorites I'd like to see brought to the big screen. If you ever saw Batman The Animated Series they did an episode where there were 3 stories about Batman that kids were telling and they were each an homage to different writers and artists – one was Frank Miller's Batman – the one where his voice was done by Michael Ironside (who also did Dark Seid for JLU). I'd settle for an animated version of Dark Knight Returns, panel for panel. There's a female Robin, he actually kills the Joker, takes on Superman with the help of an old one-armed Green Arrow, and the Batmobile was a tank. Good Stuff.

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:18:24 +0000

As soon as I read Philip Seymore Hoffman, I also immediately thought of Penguin. Guess we know at least one villian for the next movie.

By: Lawrence Miller

Lawrence Miller — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:25:29 +0000

Frank Miller wrote and drew the original 1986 Batman comic mini-series "The Dark Knight Returns", about a 55-year-old batman who comes out of retirement to fight crime. DKR is pretty much the basis for the gritty batman we know and love today. Miller also wrote the comics on which the movies "300" and "Sin City" were based.

Until "The Spirit" is released, we won't know much about his directing chops, but he's certainly earned his Batman Cred. That said, I doubt they'd actually discontinue the Christian Bale franchise; I suspect this rumor is more of a "who would you want to see playing Batman if DKR was made into a movie?" sort of thing.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:22:27 +0000

Um… Miller is talking about Stallone for a screen adaptation of his graphic novel, The Dark Night Returns, not for the current Nolan-directed Batman.

I haven't read the Miller's work, but Stallone seems as good a choice as any for an over the hill, alcoholic Bruce Wayne. The dude had acting chops in his day and has even shown flashes of that skill in films like Copland.

Regarding Hoffman… that's nothing but a rumor according to Hoffman himself, though one I'd like to see come true. PSH would make a kick ass Penguin.