If all Paul Dini had done was co-create Harley Quinn with Bruce Timm – Quinn was inspired by a dream Dini had – that would be enough. But he also wrote many episodes of “Batman: The Animated Series”, “Batman Beyond”, the “Arkham” video games and several Batman comics. In other words, its Dark Knight credentials are unquestioned, which is why Warner Bros. hired him for a live-action film “Batman Beyond”.
The animated show, which ran for three seasons from 1999 to 2001 and spawned a movie that had to be recut to get its “G” rating, was a sequel to “Batman: The Animated Series” and focused on a teen version. of the titular crime fighter named Terry McGinnis. Mentored by an older Bruce Wayne, McGinnis took on the role of Batman in a futuristic Gotham. And in an episode of Kevin Smith’s “Fatman on Batman” podcast, now titled “Fatman Beyond” (via Collider), Dini revealed that he and Alan Burnett had been asked by the studio to write a script for a “Batman Beyond” movie. “, which, according to the writer, would have been directed by the director of “Max” and “Remember The Titans”, Boaz Yakin.
As Dini recalled, the movie “Batman Beyond” would have been set in a Gotham future that obviously wouldn’t have quite the “futuristic edge” of the cartoon series. As Dini said, “There was a bit of The Dark Knight, there was a bit of contemporary comics and there was Terry McGinnis and the costume and everything.” But what was most interesting about this live-action version was that screen legend Clint Eastwood was going to be approached to play Bruce Wayne, who, just like in the “Beyond” animated series, would be a much bigger version. old and jaded of the billionaire. .
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