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In that troubled period post-Batman & Robin, it seemed like half of Hollywood took a run at Batman, before Christopher Nolan’s trilogy effectively reset the barometer of what a superhero movie could be.
In a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, host Josh Horowitz spoke with Darren Aronofsky to reflect on his time being closely linked to the franchise. Unbelievably, this was more than two decades ago now.
Aronofsky was attached to direct an adaptation of Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One. The movie would eventually be shelved, and Aronofsky tells Horowitz it was because he was really focused on The Fountain:
“I was really focused on The Fountain, I never really took that seriously. I wanted to make Fountain, that’s where I was at.
[Frank Miller and I] co-wrote a script, but my whole strategy on that one was I wanted to make this totally wild, crazy film about love and the search for the Fountain of Youth, and I felt like if I was on Batman they might let me make [Fountain], which is kind of what happened, sort of.
I think the Batman that me, and Frank pitched/wrote was really down and dirty, duct tape kind of movie. That was never really going to be selling Batmobiles, I don’t think I was the right guy at the right time. It was rated R. I think the whole world of superhero films had to come out first to scrape the bottom of the barrel before going to R-rated films like some of the later ones.”
He also confirmed that he wanted Joaquin Phoenix for the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman, which was a world away from the studio who wanted Freddie Prinze Jr. He also said he was never attached to Man of Steel, but was on Watchmen for just a few days.
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