Batman

[Jrecee]

How do you plan on making it? Is it going to be a web show?

If I was planning on making it I'd have to start over, I can't afford the budget. I'm just writing a 12 episode arc. Someone would have to buy it and make it. . .

[Dakinggamer87]

I'll probably watch it!!

[latenitevacancy]

if you wrote it the way batman should be done.. in the vein of the comics or animated series, than yes, i'd watch it. only fools wouldnt.

[REPO Man]

I'm actually working on a concept for a series that revolves around a reformed Edward Nygma who takes the place of a slain Batman in a Gotham City overrun by crime and ruled by The Joker and Harley. That's the basic synopsis.

The long one:

Years ago, Edward Nygma was a psychotic criminal called "The Riddler". Many times, he tried to cause havoc and discord. But each time, he's failed. Each failure was due to the city's protector... The Batman.

But after a near-death experience, he find himself owing a debt to The Batman. He tries to repay this debt by saving his life in return. He gets his chance, when he tries to intervene to save Batman's life from Batman's other nemesis... The Joker. The Joker and The Riddler may both be criminals, but one thing they hate more than Batman is each other. The Riddler tries to stop The Joker... but fails. But The Riddler didn't get killed, but something worse happened... the bullet hit The Batman.

The Riddler takes his cane and tries to apprehend The Joker himself, but Joker takes the gun and points it at The Riddler's head... and pulls the trigger.

Luckily, he didn't die. He sat in a coma for a year.

When he awoke, Gotham City had fallen into chaos and discord. With The Batman dead, and his two proteges Robin (a girl) and Batkid nowhere to be found for months, there's only one man who can restore order... Edward Nygma.

After he seeks out Batman's proteges, Robin's twin brother and a tech-fluent ex-cop, the quintet seeks to stop criminals and bring order to Gotham City.

Guided by his own sense of newfound honor, as well as his own pathos and the skeletons in his closet, can Nygma save Gotham City, or be forced over the edge that he once fell over?

Cast choices TBA.

[Jrecee]

What is the way batman is meant to be done? Like besides the total opposite of Batman and Robin.

I think a well done live action tv show could show batman in a way that hasn't been done before. In movies you are limited to the number of characters you can do. In a tv show you can show the scarecrow for 5 minutes in one episode and not feel bad because you can show him for 25 in the next. I think even the animated batman shows fall prey to the same limitations as the movies, just because they try to contain an entire plot to one 22 minute episode. The benefit to a tv show or a comic is that you can show the huge tangled web of all the villains. You don't have to say, "well today, catwoman will team up with the penguin". You can show how the penguin may use catwoman, and how catwoman may get in the way of the joker, or how the joker effects the penguin. Nothing besides the comics have been able to show how all those characters cross eachothers paths. And I can see why nobody has really tried it, it's a fucking clusterfuck to figure out!

[SpaceBooger]

What is the way batman is meant to be done? Like besides the total opposite of Batman and Robin.

I think a well done live action tv show could show batman in a way that hasn't been done before. In movies you are limited to the number of characters you can do. In a tv show you can show the scarecrow for 5 minutes in one episode and not feel bad because you can show him for 25 in the next. I think even the animated batman shows fall prey to the same limitations as the movies, just because they try to contain an entire plot to one 22 minute episode. The benefit to a tv show or a comic is that you can show the huge tangled web of all the villains. You don't have to say, "well today, catwoman will team up with the penguin". You can show how the penguin may use catwoman, and how catwoman may get in the way of the joker, or how the joker effects the penguin. Nothing besides the comics have been able to show how all those characters cross eachothers paths. And I can see why nobody has really tried it, it's a fucking clusterfuck to figure out!

Try adapting and modifying a storyline from the comic that you enjoyed. Take something that already worked in one medium and build on it's strengths. Thats what Batman Begins did. It took the success that was Batman Year One and re molded it for the movie.
Maybe take a story like Hush that was fun and could be tied into deeper continuity if so desired so that you would never really run out of content to build on. Imagine knowing the starting and ending point of a series, but having the deep continuity of already placed possible plot branches to easily extend a series from 12 episodes to 24 by adding 12 in the middle.

[Jrecee]

Well I've read a total of 4 batman comics. One of them was some manbat spinoff.

Since it's meant to be a tv show/series I'm trying to avoid adapting anything directly. Certain elements or story ideas of the comics will obviously be a part of it. Basically the 12 episode arc I'm writing starts a couple years into batman's career (didn't feel like retreading any origins again) and ends with Harvey Dent being scarred. I wanted to build him up as a character for a while as opposed to just having him show up as Harvey Dent and then turn into twoface 3 episodes later. Certain characters will already be familiar to batman (scarecrow, catwoman) while others he's not yet dealt with (penguin), and others pop into existance (joker, bane).

[Luke]

Well I've read a total of 4 batman comics. One of them was some manbat spinoff.

You should do more research. At the very least, you should read The Untold Legend of Batman.

[bacteria]

It's me: bac-man!

[Jrecee]

I've read a lot of wikipedia articles, does that count? I've also seen all the movies and probably 90% of the episodes of batman the animated series (and the later versions of it).

I kind of want to avoid reading too much because I don't want to end up subconsciously taking stories straight out of the comics, but I also don't want to end up avoiding good story ideas just because they've been done in some fashion.

I remember now that I've also read part of the long halloween, the man who falls and the first batman appearance, they all came in a comic with the batman begins dvd. I've also read the first two appearances of the joker, which I want to stick really closely to for the Joker's first appearance. Early on I was thinking of the idea "CSI: Gotham" being a sort of jumping point for the show. I don't think that would be good for an entire series (everyone would just want more and more batman until finally it just turns into a batman tv show anyway) but I want to make the Joker episode based on that idea; Starting with a smiling corpse being found, Gordon showing up, and sticking with the pacing of CSI (the original) throughout.