Jumping the gun: Batman in 2012

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Eldezar

I am ok with Michelle not playing the traditional role of Catwoman or some variation of a dominant Catwoman because I am biased against Catwoman and pretty much think the only good Catwoman is from Batman: TAS and TNBA. If Michelle can play Catwoman like that, that would be amazing, and I am now mildly interested in Gossip girl to see what else she is capable of.

Harley is also a viable option, though I think that would be difficult to do (though not impossible) without recasting Joker so we can see the relationship between those two. If you have seen The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus then you would see there are two fairly decent replacements for Ledger with another (Depp) being an unsatisfactory replacement but still could make an interesting performance in his own right.

It would be kind of nice to get a Superman/Batman live-action movie. Both DC and Marvel have gotten better about acknowledging other heroes within their universes, but it still seems that there could be more interaction. I think we need a new Superman, though. Wonder what Welling is doing...

See, I think that re-writing Harley could actually work well in this case. Maybe you only need something saying she had some connection to Joker, like, I dunno, his daughter or something, but it might be interesting to not have that kind of arbitrary baggage attached. Maybe she was only told somehow she was his daughter or maybe somehow just looked up to him, but for whatever reason, decided to follow in his footsteps after the fact. You could do a whole "girl, you're making a mistake" type of thing there, only to have it turn out that it's actually a mistake to underestimate her, because she's wholly dedicated to it for all the horrifyingly right reasons and is just as or possibly even more dangerous than Joker was. You could pull an entirely different, but even more terrifying, form of psychotic with her, where she's just out to have fun, and by "having fun" I mean committing acts that would make the Joker himself blush with naught but a visage of childish glee. She could be absolutely, irredeemably psychotic with the advantage of a seeming innocence inherent to her that throws people off and makes them underestimate and misjudge her without any intentional manipulation on her part.

Basically, Harley could be fucking terrifying.



On Supes, I think the character needs a rest. The public hasn't forgotten about his last horrible failure and to be frank, not a single one of his movies has been anything above okay in my opinion. There's not much you can do with a character whose abilities amount to "being better than everyone at everything" and for whom several cosmic characters have to be created on a weekly basis just so that he can pummel them in a slightly less unfair fight. Let's be honest here, I get that his planet exploded, but statistically, there just aren't enough glowing green rocks to go around and it's lazy and uninteresting to have to constantly throw them around as a fallback.

Don't get me wrong, with a good writer, he can be great, but there's been zero evidence that it's liable to happen on the silver screen.