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Film School Rejects: Frank Miller: Batman Could Be an Italian Stallion

  • Neil Miller · 1 year ago
    Hmm... Combine this with what what we've seen from The Spirit and you might go as far as to assume that Frank Miller has lost his marbles... completely.
  • Doomy · 1 year ago
    Obviously the only choice for TDKR's Batman would be Ted Danson. The old, grey haired one from Saving Private Ryan and all that.
  • Jeremy M · 1 year ago
    That has to be THE BEST Stallone picture ever! :D
  • HempKnight757 · 1 year ago
    First off to Doomy I see where your going with Ted Danson, but I personally don't think that would work & if your goin with him u might as well just bring Micheal Keaton back.
    Second off Clint Eastwood acting wise would kill the part, but looks wise I don't think he would work (to thin) besides being old. He is for sure gritty enough to play the part, but then again so is DeNiro & he would not fit the part at all.
    Third off Stallone could work, but don't quote me on that. If he toned up & also took some speech classes he will "murder" the part in a good way.

    Think about it third Batman movie then in a few years The Dark Knight Returns followed by Batman Beyond. KICK ASS
  • Robert Fure · 1 year ago
    Stallone would be a great, grizzled Batman in The Dark Knight. By the time of TDK Returns, Bruce Wayne is almost all but gone, there is only Batman. Stallone is big, grizzled, and can pull off mean and all that.

    Watch Copland, Rocky Balboa, and Rambo and then tell me he wouldn't make a good Batman in TDKR and I will tell you that you never even read the graphic novel.
  • Mathieu Lalonde · 1 year ago
    Ten years ago, I would have loved to see Clint Eastwood in the part but now I'm not so sure. Ted Danson seems like a good idea... (now i'm trying to think of all of the aging 80's actors i can... how about Tom Seleck? Okay maybe not.)

    But now for the real tough question... Who will play ROBIN?

    I'd like to nominate Ellen Page!! - She even looks the part doesn't she?
  • Bob Funn · 1 year ago
    HAhahaha with that voice? you'd only be able to see Rocky up there...

    I hope he gets to do it.
  • Sam · 1 year ago
    I could see Ted Danson, except after watching Damages, he would make much more sense as a villain type.

    As for stallone, if he has nothing to do with the writing, I could probably watch it. He wrote Rocky Balboa, right? I can't be the only one who thought the dialogue was god-awful. His voice grates on my nerves a bit too much at times. Especially in that movie.

    I don't know. I could see what Miller is going for on a look-basis, but that's as far as it goes for me.
  • Cole Abaius · 1 year ago
    "If I can change!...and he can change!...then maybe everyone, all of Gotham can change!!"
  • ilryn · 1 year ago
    Sly as Batman??? thats boxoffice sucide bro!
  • Sam · 1 year ago
    I'm just doing this because i gotta do it, you know, have you ever had to stop a criminal? i do cuz it's in me to do, so i gotta do it. to do it, so that i've done it, you know, you probably had something in you to do once and didn't do it, so let me stop this guy and do the thing i gotta do
  • Aleric · 1 year ago
    If Stallone was kept under tight direction and he didn't write the scriot he actually can be a good actor. Right now he has the beaten down hard ege of a knife attitude that would be needed for the TDK who has seen his friends and family die and be crippled by the years of fighting crime. Not to mention the effect of years of injuries he would have recieved from all the fights Batman was involved in.

    Pissed off and tired Stallone can do well.
  • Gary · 1 year ago
    This would take a huge leap of faith for everyone involved, but Stallone, might, just might be able to pull it off in the physical department, just make sure to get Kevin Conroy to dub the lines.

    As for my favorite Stallone flick... I'd have to say CLIFFHANGER.
  • JDU · 1 year ago
    I always thought that Paul Newman, circa "The Color of Money", would be the perfect
    choice for Bruce Wayne/Batman in The Dark Knight Returns.
  • Robrt'sStalker · 1 year ago
    Hey JDU! I think they need to film Newman now before he's a goner if they gonna cast him as beaten down Bruce Wayne.
  • HAGE · 1 year ago
    i enjoyed judge dread, and on a face level, i believe stallone could make this work. provided
    FM is somewhat involved in the project. FM maybe balls-ing around at times, but as an
    artist, sometimes, you just gotta do what you wanna do and let the critiques trash it. and
    thats the great thing bout FM.

    Also, the speech thing is a problem, i dont think stallone can recreate what bale does when
    he dons the suit. now let us wonder, if stallone is playing batman, who the heck does FM
    thinks is an ideal superman?
  • VALER · 1 year ago
    Sylvester Stallone is perfect for a Batman in his 53 more or less!!... You see "Rocky Balboa" and "Rambo"(2008)? Stallone is very underated like "auteur"(he is director/actor/producer and screen-writer).

    Then, Kevin Costner is perfect for a Superman of similar caracteristics.
  • Mathieu Lalonde · 1 year ago
    Actually, Superman doesn't age as much in Dark Knight Returns so we could keep the current one...
  • Robert Fure · 1 year ago
    If you read The Dark Knight Returns, Batman is still very imposing physically. He's massive. His face is grizzled. He is Stallone.

    Superman is always Superman, sometimes just with gray hairs.
  • JoshBennett · 1 year ago
    That's a hard thing to say.
    I'm not too opposed to Stallone, in a way.
    The guy can barely act, but I agree that he'd make a good actor for it, physically.

    but who could do it better?

    I don't know, Ron Perlman? He's a pretty massive guy, with some insane mouth bone structure- and he's got some acting chops.

    Daniel Day Lewis?

    *shrug*
  • Quimeracomics · 1 year ago
    The first time I Read The Dark Knight Returns I thought Carlton Heston was ideal to play the part, years passed and Charlton Heston died, then I saw Clint Eastwood in Space Cowboys and thought there was no one better than him to play the part, now sadly I think is just to old to play him. I actually con see a very cool and believable action scene with Silvester Stallone fighting the mutant leader.
    My only problem is his esthetic cirguries on his eyelids
  • Amol_Ghadi · 1 year ago
    Putting a Stone-face Stallone in DKR as Batman would simply means suicide for such a beautiful, gritty story. For the aged Batman, we want an Actor who has a chiseled but a little droopy physique and who can perform some action stunts AND NOT a chiseled but a little droopy physique who can perform some action stunts BUT can barely act/talk. I may be wrong but prior to this, I think Stallone had played a superhero and was a superflop. I don't remember who he played. With a Superhero movie, there is no Grey area, just a Black or White in terms of box-office Success. Either it's a hit or a flop. So ''No Stallone'' for this role.
  • Jesse D · 1 year ago
    If I could have anyone living or dead to play Batman in Dark Knight Returns it would have to be Charlton Heston. Watch Ben Hur or the Ten Comandments, he would have been perfect.
  • Gramscist · 11 months ago
    To actually suggest Ron Perlman is a good idea, considering how he works in Hellboy. Which is how Bruce Wayne looks like in TDKR.

    Don't be surprised with 'ol Frank Miller saying that. In some ways, I haven't seen any comic book that trumps its film adaptations other than those written by Alan Moore.