Filmstalker: Batman vs Superman script online

No one would have believed Batman could beat Superman until they read The Dark Knight Returns (review), and after that moment the idea of Batman vs Superman has been on everyone's thoughts when one of them features in a movie. Well now you can have the next best thing, the script to read.

Yes, the script is available to download, and it claims to be the Andrew Kevin Walker written script with revisions by Akiva Goldsmith. Have a read and see what you think.

You can get the script over at Simply Scripts sitting on their front page, well it is right now, through Comic Book Movie.

I haven't read it yet, but I plan too and I'm dying to see how close to the Dark Knight Returns it is, the blurb suggests otherwise:

"Bruce Wayne has hung up the Batsuit five years ago. Clark Kent is the best man at his wedding to the beautiful and lovely Elizabeth. And while Gotham's richest man is at the happiest moment in his life, Clark Kent, a.k.a. Superman, isn't doing so well. Lois, his long-suffering girlfriend, has finally given him the boot."

Have a read and see what you think. Will this ever make it to the screen? I know that reports are suggesting Bryan Singer is keen, but those are very tenuous and he just said he liked the idea, after they have their own movie run.

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This will be another of those fantastic sripts that will never be filmed. There is a huge collection of that. Having read Batman Dark Knight, I was enthusiastic at how the two iconic DC superguys solved their differences with the fists. Don´t forget Superman will always be less intelligent than Batman, so Superman always deffends the american way, even though circumstances should make him a little more skeptical, as Bruce Wayne the lone wolf is. In this time of crisis, such ideas should be put into an screen, but instead, we have to resign ourselves with metaphorical tales of action and adventure, old style. Singer knows quite well the traditional nostalgic approach also works fine. Yet, there is yet to be seen a really transgressor serious superhero movie, something like the late westerns did to the genre, the final maturity of it. The equivalent of those brilliant comics (Watchmen, Dark Knight) in the movies.

Posted by: Peter | July 6, 2006 8:00 PM

Actually something I didn't say in the piece was what Singer was saying about a possible film. He said that he wouldn't know who to make the baddie, was it Batman or Superman? The problem is they both are, and they both aren't, it's ambiguous and it makes each out to be incredibly tainted. In particular it makes Superman seem very tainted by American politics.

That just couldn't work on screen for today's audience, so we see him talking about good and evil roles for them.

Posted by: Richard Brunton | July 6, 2006 8:11 PM

No offence, but I don't think I'd like to see a "Batman" flick in the hands of Singer. I'd much rather Chris Nolan.

Posted by: spidey1703 | July 6, 2006 10:36 PM

Singer´s words are interesting. Both Batman and Superman are more than mere black and white figures. We are more used to see Batman at both sides of the law. It would be really interesting to see Superman manipulated by an allegedly good yet real evil force with purposes only known to them. Only Batman would dare to stop him?

Another interesting point is the intelligence of audiences. I wonder what is the cause of the simplified tone of most films. Is the audience, or are the producers to blame? Like TV trash, it´s the audience or the programmers who lower the standards?

Posted by: Peter | July 7, 2006 3:21 PM