Batman 2018 Movie: 6 Influential Storylines We Want To See
5. The Long Halloween
Jeph Loebs The Long Halloween takes place over a period of months and follows a relatively young Batman as he tracks a serial killer who strikes in Holiday seasons. Quickly dubbed Holiday, Batman must track down the killer whilst struggling to suppress a war between Gotham two most prominent mob groups and dealing with the loss of a friend and ally to madness and villainy. Thanks to its drawn out time period, The Long Halloween covers a lot of ground.
What separates The Long Halloween from anything else weve seen so far from DC and Warner is that it can essentially act as a genre piece, a stand alone crime thriller that would allow Batman to be the great detective that hes so often touted as being instead of a brawler in a cape.
Its worth pointing out that elements of The Long Halloween have already appeared in the movies, most notably its origin story for Harvey Two Face Dent and the increased focus on the Falcone and Maroni crime families, both of which were co-opted for Nolans Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Still, The Long Halloween has plenty to offer in narrative terms, and after Batman has had a super-powered blowout with Supes in 2016 it would be refreshing to see him getting back to the basics of fighting a more grounded style of criminal.