Long before Christopher Nolans Batman Begins hit theaters, director Darren Aronofsky almost made his own take on the Caped Crusader. After finishing Requiem For A Dream in 2000, the director was developing a screen adaptation of Frank Millers milestone Batman story Batman: Year One. With Millers help, Aronofsky set out to create something that would be the polar opposite of Joel Schumacher's previous films. This was going to be a graphic, more intense version of Batman, and at the end of the day the studio simply wasnt comfortable with that. Where Batman & Robin swung the pendulum to the extremes of camp, Year One was set to drag it back in the complete opposite direction of violence and sex. After a couple of years of script revisions, dealing with nervous executives, and false starts in terms of production, the project went from back-burner to the grave as everyone involved moved on to other things.
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