12 Shocking Batman Movie Plans That Almost Happened
1. Darren Aronofsky's Year One
Despite decades of weirdness and near-misses, there is nothing in the Batman What If pile as weird or stupid as Darren Aronofsky's pitch for Year One. It just defies logic.
As one of the seemingly many directors and writers charged with making Batman a viable option again after Batman & Robin, Aronofsky decided that different was the right way to go. So he ripped up everything that we knew about Batman - and indeed the comic book he was apparently adapting - and came up with something utterly bonkers.
Based on a script by Frank Miller, the film would have followed the orphaned and newly impoverished Bruce Wayne on the streets of Gotham (a little like Oliver Twist) by Big Al (this universe's Alfred) who ran an autoshop with his son, Little Al. From there, the script took leads from Taxi Driver as Wayne grew to develop a hatred of Gotham's criminal culture until he's compelled to start fighting it as Batman.
Jim Gordon was going to be a hard-nosed cop, Selina Kyle was going to be a prostitute and the film would have been disastrous.
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