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Neil Stephenson on Batman Beyond Project?
Alkaiser writes "Hey, get this. According to Altavista, who got it from Variety, Neal Stephenson is negotiations to work on Fox's Batman Beyond movie. " This is a whole lotta rumor and speculation, but its still worth a thought. I mean batman and stephenson? Yum.
They're apparently only negotiating to bring him on as a consultant on the creative aspects, according to the article. Given Stephenson's love of descriptive narrative and detail, this should be an ideal use of his talents.
...and the Penguin will be driving a tank.
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Well that's just great. What I want to know is how many actors played Batman?
My favorite villain death scene is still The Joker.
Gotta agree with you. As a Linux user, I hated when they killed off the Penguin. Maybe in the next movie, they can have a villian in a red devil's outfit holding a pitchfork. Wearing a Red Hat. Doing battle against a lizard doing the samba. With a gnome as his assistant. Who seeks enlightenment. While being chase by the Batmobile doing Maximum RPM's. With the final battle in a sawmill. Used to cut pine. And elm.
Why is it people are posting about this as it were a live movie?
It's animated! People are writing and talking without background, without reading the links, without doing any follow through...
So what else is new?
Anyway, cut it out. It's just adding more noise, and I know most of you aren't intentionally trying to be clueless. But really, the series Batman Beyond is pretty good, it's animated, it's related to the Batman animated series, and it has nothing to do with the last 3 Batman movies, except maybe the animated one ^^
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Yeah but what's with this libertarian-wishful-thinking nonsense that governments will simply up and evaporate in the immediate near future? It's a neat SF idea and it does simplify the plot somewhat but still it's as much a baseless fantasy as Frodo or something.
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Stephenson->Crypto->PGP (pretty good privacy)
Batman->Nonlethat weapons->PGP (pump-action paintball gun)
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In the cartoon the new batsuit is strength-enhancing, has powers of flight, infrared vision, and a ton of other neat gizmos. To see that translated into movie "magic" would either bring about a really great movie, or a really cheesy one. I hope they do a better job showing _Terry's_(Not Tim, regardless of what the article said) suffering over his fathers death. After all that's probably the only thing that makes Wayne sympathetic to him in the final analysis.
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it turns out that Batman is an emacs user, while Robin uses pico. That would certaintly explain a lot!
Actually, this could be a good movie, so long as they don't do what they did in "Batman & Robin". Batman Beyond is a cartoon that even I like, it keeps a bit of sarcasm for amusement value, and has a more gothic flavor (i.e. the first Batman movie). Done right, this movie could rock...here's hoping.
Does this mean that the Batmobile will run BeOS?
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Terry McGinnes is the new Batman. He's a well-off teen with a life beyond the bat, now mostly gone thanks to his "employment" by Bruce.
While Paul Dini was on all of the named films, Burnett was not. This is a minor oversight.
Outside of the nits, I'm a little excited to see how this plays out. The Beyond world is great. Best character? Max, Terry's computer geek friend who stumbled onto his secret. When she makes it clear that she has no intention of being called "Robin", Terry responds, "OK... Alfred." Nonetheless, as a sidekick, in many ways, she (and Bruce, and the 60ish Commisioner (Barbara) Gordon) tremendously outshine the basicly-good-but-oh-so-shallow teenaged Terry.
Most of the villains are also more complex than the primary hero, but this is hardly a slight on him. Unlike most hero characters today, Terry is not terribly prone to angst (and a Batman, yet!), even after his father's murder. Me, I find that a little bland. I'm rooting for Maxine in the suit...
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I love Stephenson's work, but I don't see anything to lead me to suspect that his gift will translate well to screen plays. The kind of authors that go well into the realm of screenplays are very dialog oriented authors, and Mr. Stephenson, while excellent, is more of a narrative guy. Think of the pages and pages of geek explanation in _Cryptonomicon_ and all the inner dialog in _Snow Crash_, and it's not terribly encouraging. That said, I hope it's true and it rocks.
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This is as close as we have gotten, so far, to Anime on the big screen.
Everything else was *import* and translated; Mononoke Hime and Ghost in the Shell.
I would be very happy if the movie were as good as some of the better TV episodes.
Anime is somehow edgier and cooler than anything else right now; like Matrix was to live action and Hong Kong martial arts, Batman Beyond could be to animation and Anime
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If you've ever watched the Batman Beyond series you'll find that its biggest problem is the awful plot lines. Stephenson will certainly bring much needed substance to the Batman of the Future.
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