10 Things You Need To Know About Darren Aronofsky's Batman
6. Alfred Ran A Garage
Still, there were a lot of familiar faces in the script, if not quite in the form you remember. As in the Year One comic Jim Gordon was a big part of the story, although his arrival in Gotham didn't mirror Bruce Wayne's beginnings in the same way. In the proposed film Gordon had in fact lived in the city for decades, and was desperate to leave for the good of his pregnant wife. Who was called Ann instead of Barbara, for some reason. The biggest chance, however, was made with Alfred. Obviously, given the set up of a homeless, penniless Batman, having a family butler doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. Aronofsky still wanted Bruce's closest ally and confident in the mix, though, so he opted to include him as Lil Al: Auto-Mechanic. Seriously, in Darren Aronofsky's Batman film, Alfred would've been a garage owner. A gigantic, early middle-aged black man who was responsible for taking the orphaned Bruce Wayne off the streets, training him up in the skills of fixing cars in his garage Al & Son (which came in handy when the Batmobile needed tooling up). Catwoman too was African-American in their script.
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