Batman - The Live Action Series

[Guest ChikoDemono]

After watching today's episode of Smallville, I was wondering why Warner has not greenlit a live action TV series of the Batman, especially with the release of Batman Begins. Of course, nothing could touch the awesomeness of the Adam West series, so I was thinking more of a "before he was the Batman" type of thing, kinda like Smallville. Instead of focusing on a relationship with parents (for obvious reasons), high school, and the such Smallville is about, why not have a show dedicated to Bruce Wayne's extensive training?

 

Have him travel the world learning the various crime-fighting skills the Batman incorporates in his arsenal. Use Year One as a template, along with the many flashback stories of him training all around the world. Of course, I'm not entirely sure how much steam a show solely dedicated to that certain plot has, but I think it'd be fun to watch Bruce Wayne learn 127 martial art disciplines in only a decade.

 

Thoughts? Comments?

[bobobrazil1984 0]

initially WB was going to do a young Bruce Wayne series, but it got shelved and Smallville got greenlite ahead.

 

Last year, a review of the pilot script and bible for this lost series was released, and it sounded pretty badass. Harvey Dent filled the kind of role Lex has on Smallville, as the best friend who eventually becomes the enemy.

 

I made a thread about it some time back, let me see if I can find it.

[bobobrazil1984 0]

Here we go:

 

http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?...topic=71108&hl=

 

or a direct link to the (very comprehensive) info of the lost series:

 

http://www.kryptonsite.com/brucewayne/

Edited December 27, 2005 by metr0man

[ChrisMWaters 0]

Sadly, the closest thing we had recently to a live action Batman series in this day and age was the VERY short lived "Birds of Prey" series.

 

Which...I admit, I watched.

[SuperJerk 0]

Sadly, the closest thing we had recently to a live action Batman series in this day and age was the VERY short lived "Birds of Prey" series.

 

Which...I admit, I watched.

Don't feel bad. That show might've been great...if they hadn't fucked up every single character.

[Guest ChikoDemono]

Never got the chance to watch Birds of Prey. Was it as bad as some say?

[Downhome 0]

I think we need a new show where Adam West and Burt Ward once again take on the roles of Batman and Robin, only this time the entire idea is that Gotham City is once again becoming full of crime, so they come out of retirement and hit the streets. This time, it's even more of a comedy.

 

Think Mermaid Man & Barnicle Boy from Spongebob.

 

I'd watch it.

 

[razazteca 0]

Why not a live action version of Batman Beyond with the whole cast reprising their roles? I wanna see Boy Meets World as Batboy in college with Nick Stahl as the main villian and cameo appearance from Adam West!

Edited December 27, 2005 by razazteca

[SuperJerk 0]

Why not a live action version of Batman Beyond...

Only if Victor Garber plays Bruce Wayne.

 

That motherfucker was a hardcore badass during the first 2 seasons of "Alias".

[starvenger 0]

Sadly, the closest thing we had recently to a live action Batman series in this day and age was the VERY short lived "Birds of Prey" series.

 

Which...I admit, I watched.

Don't feel bad. That show might've been great...if they hadn't fucked up every single character.

It's not so much that, it's more that they took a little bit of this and a little bit of that from different versions of the character. Oracle is obviously based on the comics. Huntress was, I think, the Earth 2 version - the daughter of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle. And Black Canary was the post-Crisis version with teen angst thrown in and Becky Kastopolis as the JSA version.

 

So nothing fucked up (or more accurately, incorrect) there. The problem was more that they didn't bother to explain any of this, and expected you to play along. And sure, this approach worked for 'Smallville' (I think), but noone on that show is wearing spandex, and to be honest, I think most people already knew that Clark Kent = Superman. You can't say the same about Helena Wayne, or Dinah Lance or even Barbara Gordon. Add on a running plot that made the show similar to season two of 'Dark Angel' (which sucked compared to the first season) and you've got a show that's doomed to failure.

[CBright7831 0]

I think I'd rather see a continuation of Bruce Timm's Batman Animated Series.

[dubq 0]

This would be ghey as it would be geared toward the young-teen demographic. Complete with the Smallvillesque love story angles that go on-and-on-and-on-and-on-and-ON.

[DMann2003 0]

I always had a new spin on the Batman Mythology that I thought would work great as a series- "Gotham City"- dealing with a varied group of people (youths, families, careworkers, street cops) and the dealings of their lives, the crime and crisis that plague their city and the strange rumors and sightings of a 6ft tall vigilante dressed like a bat, and of course the steamy gossip of playboy billionaire Bruce Wayne.

 

See make Bruce Wayne and Batman the background so your story comes out of what would the regular 9-5 people think living in Gotham City with this guy and these incidents happening around them.

Edited December 28, 2005 by DMann2003

[JasonX 0]

Never got the chance to watch Birds of Prey. Was it as bad as some say?

 

Really really really bad:

 

The series fell apart though with two massive things:

 

Rather than going the obvious route with Black Canary (30-something second generation hero with sonic scream powers who provides the comic relief ala Samantha on Sex in the City and connection towards bringing in in other DCU characters into the show) they made her a teenage runaway with psychic powers played by a talentless jailbait actress with big tits.

 

And for the show's big bad? Harly Quinn, written like a Hannibal Lector type super-genius who only wore her costume in the final episode and generally lacked EVERYTHING that made Harly such a popular character.

[Guest Duke_The_Dog]

Didn't Adam West do a movie recently where he played Adam est, but Adam West really thought he was Batman?

[JasonX 0]

Didn't Adam West do a movie recently where he played Adam est, but Adam West really thought he was Batman?

 

No, he did a film with Burt Ward, Julie Newmar, and Frank Gorshin (crappy spelling) where Julie and Frank try and kill Ward and West because the two were about to find out that the real reason why the sixties Batman show was cancelled; as in the film it was stated that the show got cancelled due to Frank and Julie deciding to become real life villains and get the show cancelled as payback for having to watch West and Ward become the stars of the show.

[Scroby 0]

I think just a new live action Batman show done off the comics would be fine. Nothing to fancy, just episodes based off the comics.