29 August 2013

Superman vs Batman - the "Asylum" script

Yeah we've all heard that Ben Affleck will be our new Batman when the Man of Steel goes for round two ... I loved a tweet suggesting that Matt Damon would play the role of Poison Ivy ... but I digress! Take a look at a 10-year old Superman/Batman script.

Here's a look back at "Asylum" - a script by Andrew Kevin Walker (of Se7en fame) with 2002 revisions by Akiva Goldsman (the writer behind such scripts as I am Legend, I Robot and, yeah well, Batman & Robin)... between these guys, a wealth of experience!

The script was reviewed on the www.supermanhomepage.com site ... but heck, take the time. Read it - it might have been and maybe some of it ends up creeping into the Affleck / Cavill flick. Here, to wet your appetite, a para from a review on www.geeksofdoom.com:

"Dispensing with tired replays of the two heroes’ origin stories, the script establishes Bats and Supes as having been friends and allies in their endless war against the forces of evil for quite some time. Bruce Wayne has decided to leave behind his old life of nocturnal vigilante activities in order to settle down to a life of domestic bliss with his new bride Elizabeth just as Clark Kent reveals that he is getting a divorce from Lois Lane. Turns out the fight for truth, justice, and the American way doesn’t mix with the married life. The murder of Bruce’s youthful ward Dick Grayson – better known as Robin the Boy Wonder, and later Nightwing – perverted the Dark Knight Detective’s mission into a thankless quest for vengeance that made him lose sight of why he became Batman in the first place. Elizabeth could very well be his last chance at a life free of loneliness and pain, but that all changes when she suffers a horrible demise while on their honeymoon. She dies with a gruesomely wide smile permanently plastered on her lovely face, a calling card of Batman’s greatest foe the Joker."

Enjoy!

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