The Film: Batman In Outer Space In his attempts to get Batman off the ground as a viable adaptation property in the early 1980s, Michael Uslan faced some fairly ridiculous indifference to his creative vision. That included from DC itself, whose president Sol Harrison said Batman was as dead as a dodo:
Since it went off on TV. He says to me, No one is interested in Batman.
Ulsan spoke to Batman-On-Film (http://www.batman-on-film.com/Batman75_B89-25-anniversary_interview_MUslan_6-27-14.html ) to say that even worse than that the only party interested in Batman, CBS, wanted to make a Batman in Outer Space movie. Apparently that was their attempt at cleansing the palate after the campy 60s TV show, with the inevitably suggestion being that CBS would have had Batman fighting some sort of alien enemy. Otherwise being in space wouldnt really have made sense, would it?
