Aronosfky's Year One

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Aronofsky on YEAR ONE & BEGINS
Source: Jett; Batman-On-Film

Sunday, July 30, 2006 - 5:18 PM CENTRAL TIME: I wanted to post this in the news since a lot of y'all didn't catch it in my SDCC 2006 section. I had the honor of meeting director Darren Aronofsky, who was once developing a BATMAN project himself with Frank Miller titled YEAR ONE.

Now, I was a tad hard on both of these guys when I REVIEWED THE SCRIPT and I still think it wouldn't have worked as a "Batman film." And guess what, Darren agreed -- sort of. "It was so violent," he told me at Comic Con. "I knew it was never going to get green lighted, but we were going 180 [from the last BATMAN] movie" he told me.

The following is a bit of what I said in my script review:

"Let me make this clear - YEAR ONE is a quality, well-written script, and I enjoyed reading it. I do understand why many Bat-fans like it. It would make a hell of a film - it just shouldn't be a 'Batman' film."

I guess I really didn't hammer it as hard as I thought.

While he was there to promote THE FOUNTAIN (which I had the honor to screen) and I did tell him my thoughts of it (My review will be out in October -- go see it), I had to ask him about BATMAN BEGINS. "Loved it," he informed me, "Chris [Nolan] did a hell of a job."