Thread: The new Batman?

Even Kevin Conroy made fun of Christian Bale's Batman voice (watched it on YouTube), which was pretty funny.

They should just get Affleck to work with Conroy to work on his Batman voice. If he can't say "I AM VENGEANCE! I AM THE NIGHT! I AM BATMAN!" properly then it's a no go.

Good points - all of them. Not trying to be argumentative, just my 2 cents.
The Huge physical part is more about how much he trained to be perfect, where 2nd best was not an option. yeah - in the real world i do not think there is a single superhero that would not be recognised except perhaps Captain Marvel.....
Johnny Weismuller was always my favourite - just wish he played the character as a well educated, well spoken man of the world. Not a hairless ape with issues with human language. and "Boy" - Tarzan's son, John Clayton, known as Jack, was "Korak", meaning "The Killer" in the language of the Mangani. Way cooler... Agan, not arguing, just my view.
One of the very best Graphic Novels {grown up comics} i have is when Tarzan is in Gotham and crosses paths with The Batman. Then they end up in Africa... Now THAT would be an awesome movie!
Oh yeah .... remember, we are not talking reality here. If you want reality in your superheroes, the maybe The Punisher is where to look. Or Tarzan.... cause he is real...though he has another name and no longer lives in Africa....
Adam

I have that. The Batman/Tarzan crossover is very well done. As for Tarzan, it is hard to pick which interpretation to go with. is it the Weismueller, raised by apes and feral creature type Tarzan living in the jungle ala Johnny Weismueller, or is it the Greystoke: Legend of Tarzan ala Christopher Lambert. The problem is people like us who are fanboys know what that is. i.e. we know about Greystoke. The average person, like my dad who never read the books and only knows Tarzan from the movies, would be confused. Take the Greystoke movie. It didn't fare well at the box office. If you could find the right actor for the role, and director and everything else you could make a great movie. The problem is getting Hollywood to take a chance. I know from talking to various people in the industry that they are hesitant to take risks as one bad film can nearly detroy them. So they have marketing demographic meetings where they pitch ideas to random people they pull off the street. They say, "Tarzan. A well educated, well spoken man who is the Earl of Greystoke but was raised..."

When the people look at him and say" Where is his loincloth? Does he speak in broken English. Umgowa! Umgowa! What about the yell?"

They immediatley say "we need to change this to make it more suitable to the audiences expectations. As well as adding other ridiculous items/characters to make it more politically correct. For example, Thor.

I liked Thor. It was a good movie in my opinion. Not the best, but better than some. Now Thor is the story of the Norse Gods. Norse. That is to say, you can't get much more Aryan/nazi poster child looking than the Norse. But when they made the movie, they cast Idris Elba as Heimdall and Tabanudo Hasano, a Japanese actor as Hogun. Don't get me wrong, both great actors. Hasano is considered the finest actor in Japan today and Idris Elba is amazing. He was great in "Luther" and in "Pacific Rim". But casting a Japanese and a black guy as Norse Gods makes ...no sense. When asked why, the director said he wanted more diversity in his cast, and wanted it to appeal to a broader audience. Meaning he didn't just want whites going to see a movie about white people. So it was to stimulate ticket sales.

I hope they don't do that with a Tarzan movie. Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle. Starring Jet Li as Tarzan. Antonio Banderas in a cameo role as his father. Helen Mirren as Tarzans mom. Beyonce as Jane. and Wes Studi as King George.

As for the reality, I know none of its real. Its just hard to please everybody. Especially somebody with Batman as their avatar. Not as a ding against you, but I assume you know more than the average bear about Batman and you care more. So if they do something slightly different you get all "Why would you do that?" Like me everytime I watch a movie about Soldiers or Special Forces or Snipers. i just have to hold my tongue and say this movie is made for normal people and not to get every detail right to please me.

I do hope somebody does a GOOD Tarzan movie someday. Unfortunately, I brought this up to a friend on another forum who is in the movie industry and he says the failure of The Lone Range/John Carterr kind of put Hollywood on a hold as far as period peices (Tarzan, The Phantom, The Shadow) being made in favor of more marketable modern movies like Justice League, Flash, Xmen, Avengers.

I would love to see a really GOOD movie with the Shadow.