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Because I'm a giant nerd, I'm spending some time fixing the metadata on my movie library so it sorts properly, and I fell down the wikipedia rabbit hole on various movie franchises.
Which leads me to discover that the new Batman movie coming up isn't just recast with Robert Pattinson as Batman - it isn't a follow-on in the existing DC Cinematic Universe (Batman v Superman, Justice League, etc), it's a new take on the character. Just. What.
I am not a Batman fangirl - by no means. But this is ridiculous!
* Burton/Schumacher series, 89 - 97, starring Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney across four films with shared continuity.
* Reboot in 2005 for the Dark Knight trilogy with Christian Bale in the lead. Okay, fair enough, it'd been nearly a decade and there was room for a new take. I mean, we weren't crying out for it, but waiting this long was positively restrained by recent standards.
* Less than a YEAR after The Dark Knight Rises - which was successful and hugely acclaimed - they recast Batman and start work on a new continuity of stories, with Ben Affleck in three movies across 2016-2017.
* Then we get Dante Pereira-Olson as Batman in 2019's Joker.
And now in 2021, we're getting Pattinson in a whole _new_ continuity of Batmovies, which is still somehow attached to the DC Cinematic Universe while being a new take on the story? What?
This is ridiculous - three Batman actors, three different continuities, in four years. No Batman actor has ever lasted more than three movies. (And while this is happening Batman has been a character in two live-action TV series, both separate from the movie continuity and with no connection to each other. And played by two totally different actors there, too.)
Compare this to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with only two character recastings (each after a single appearance) and telling a coherent big-picture story across 23 movies in eleven years. Core characters appear in 8-10 films across up to 11 years with no recasting. Admittedly the MCU made cinematic history in its ability to handle a really long franchise without screwing up. (Wrong-headed plot choices aside, but that's a separate issue.)
DC, the MCU is right there as a template for your success! You could... no, wait, apparently you'd rather TELL US ABOUT BATMAN'S ORIGIN STORY YET AGAIN.
Okay, cool, whatever. You just -- yeah. I give up.
Which leads me to discover that the new Batman movie coming up isn't just recast with Robert Pattinson as Batman - it isn't a follow-on in the existing DC Cinematic Universe (Batman v Superman, Justice League, etc), it's a new take on the character. Just. What.
I am not a Batman fangirl - by no means. But this is ridiculous!
* Burton/Schumacher series, 89 - 97, starring Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney across four films with shared continuity.
* Reboot in 2005 for the Dark Knight trilogy with Christian Bale in the lead. Okay, fair enough, it'd been nearly a decade and there was room for a new take. I mean, we weren't crying out for it, but waiting this long was positively restrained by recent standards.
* Less than a YEAR after The Dark Knight Rises - which was successful and hugely acclaimed - they recast Batman and start work on a new continuity of stories, with Ben Affleck in three movies across 2016-2017.
* Then we get Dante Pereira-Olson as Batman in 2019's Joker.
And now in 2021, we're getting Pattinson in a whole _new_ continuity of Batmovies, which is still somehow attached to the DC Cinematic Universe while being a new take on the story? What?
This is ridiculous - three Batman actors, three different continuities, in four years. No Batman actor has ever lasted more than three movies. (And while this is happening Batman has been a character in two live-action TV series, both separate from the movie continuity and with no connection to each other. And played by two totally different actors there, too.)
Compare this to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with only two character recastings (each after a single appearance) and telling a coherent big-picture story across 23 movies in eleven years. Core characters appear in 8-10 films across up to 11 years with no recasting. Admittedly the MCU made cinematic history in its ability to handle a really long franchise without screwing up. (Wrong-headed plot choices aside, but that's a separate issue.)
DC, the MCU is right there as a template for your success! You could... no, wait, apparently you'd rather TELL US ABOUT BATMAN'S ORIGIN STORY YET AGAIN.
Okay, cool, whatever. You just -- yeah. I give up.
