Joss Whedon’s untold Batman story
![When Christopher Nolan’s 2005 Batman Begins hit theaters, it quickly became a critically-lauded blockbuster that redefined the genre and set the stage for 2008’s epic The Dark Knight. However, he wasn’t the only director campaigning to take over the caped crusader. In a recent interview with GQ Magazine, Avengers director Joss Whedon reveals that he passionately […]](http://darkknight.tribute.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Batman-Begins.jpg "Joss Whedon’s untold Batman story - The Dark Knight")
When Christopher Nolan’s 2005 Batman Begins hit theaters, it quickly became a critically-lauded blockbuster that redefined the genre and set the stage for 2008’s epic The Dark Knight. However, he wasn’t the only director campaigning to take over the caped crusader. In a recent interview with GQ Magazine, Avengers director Joss Whedon reveals that he passionately tried to convince studios to let him write the movie back in 2003, but admits that his vision of the character was remarkably different from Nolan’s brooding crimefighter. Envisioning the would-be Batman as a morbid, death-obsessed kid, Whedon strongly campaigned for the job but says when he presented his idea to the studios, they were less than thrilled. To make matters worse, his presentation happened on a particularly dark day for his career. “I was like, ‘Why did I do that? Why did I get so invested in that Batman story? How much more evidence do I need that the machine doesn’t care about my vision?’” Whedon told the magazine. “And I got back to work and got a phone call that Firefly was cancelled. And I was like, ‘It was a rhetorical question! It was not actually a request! Come on!'”
