Who do you turn to when U.S. military intelligence and Special Forces cannot ferret out Osama bin Laden? No, not Ghosbusters. You put out a page for Batman.
Of course.
"Bored with pitting his wits against the Joker and the Riddler, Batman is setting his sights on a more challenging target — Osama bin Laden.
"Holy Terror, Batman! an upcoming graphic novel from famed Batman writer Frank Miller, sees the caped crusader facing off against Al-Qaeda operatives who attack Gotham City.
"Miller, who has already inked his way through 120 pages of the 200-page opus, told a recent comic book convention that the novel was an unashamed "piece of propaganda" in which Batman ‘kicks Al-Qaeda’s ass’ [crudity in the original]."
The Daily Planet has confirmed that Hollywood moguls are seeking to acquire the rights to Holy Terror, Batman! Christian Bale is expected to reprise his role as the Dark Knight from Batman Begins but there is no word yet on which actors are being considered for the role of archvillain Bin Laden.
Awright! Batman should be great in caves, where Osama is probably spending most of his free time.
Oddly, in previously unreleased portions of a January audio tape from Osama, he vows that he will never be taken alive.
Sounds like acceptable terms, to me.
In the end, if we are successful, we’ll be lucky to find enough of him for the forensics team to mop up on the end of a cotton swab.
Doesn’t sound as if things are going his way… isn’t “You’ll never take me alive!!” what the bad guy always says just before the final climactic set piece?
Top of the world, Ma!!!
I have nothing against Batman, but…
The great issue of our time is Islam, the West, and terrorism, and the best Hollywood can do is Batman?
Sheesh.
And when Hollywood is done re-writing this story for the World Market–and after Moslems start shooting, burning, and rioting around the world over the story as the movie is made–who will wind up being portrayed as the great hero and rescuer of civilized mankind:: Osama bin Laden–you can bet on it.
It’s too bad we can’t time warp Basil Rathbone to the present to play bin Laden. He played such great heavies in “The Adventures of Robin Hood”, “The Mark of Zorro”, and “The Adventures of Marco Polo”.
No…no….that’s so messed up…..
Why are people so weirded out by this? What do you think comic book heroes did during WWII? Sit on their butts? Go to protest marches? Heck, no! They fought Nazis and soldiers of the Emperor and Mussolini’s goons! They fought Nazi superheroes! They fought terrorists and saboteurs! They fought in whole superhero squadrons!
Notably, even the most anti-establishment heroes, like the anti-surface world Prince Namor (the Sub-Mariner) and renegade android the Human Torch (not the Johnny Storm one — the first one!) enlisted their talents on the side of the Allies. Nazis and the Empire of the Sun were Bad Guys. Their (*cough*) minor differences with US law enforcement before the war were forsaken for the sake of the world.
What’s more, there were a lot of soldier comics after WWII. Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandoes, for example.
I really hope Frank Miller does this right.
“The Daily Planet has confirmed that Hollywood moguls are seeking to acquire the rights to Holy Terror, Batman!”
You’re having us on with this one, aren’t you, Michelle?
Last I read – only a very short week or 2 ago – Chris Nolan & David Goyer (who wrote Batman Begins) were following through with their initial plans that there be 2 sequels to Batman Begins; one in which the Joker plays havoc with Gotham (Paul Bettany is being chatted up to play the Clown Prince of Crime, apparently) while Batman works in cahoots with Gotham’s new district attorney, Harvey Dent (yes, the future Two-Face) to bring to justice inmates who broke out of Arkam in the fist movie.
Besides, didn’t they do the terrorism angle in the first film pretty well? Why go there again?
I just hope Miller turns out a better product than his last Batman magnum opus, Dark Knight Strikes Again, or whatever it was called. Hated that one.
Indiana Jones did Nazis, and Rambo did Communists. James Bond did terrorists of a sort (think S.P.E.C.T.R.E.). But most movies dealing with terrorism today deal with the more complicated issues involved (think “The Siege” – just don’t watch it).
It will be interesting to see terrorism done in the world of comic books, where the good guys still fight the bad guys and no one fudges which character is which…
Yeah, I guess I was wishing we could get comic-book morality in a more serious movie.
I don’t mind Batman vs. terrorists at all. I just wish we could make some movies about more “real” Americans against the terrorists, where the real Americans are seen as heroes.
Of course we shouldn’t be fooled into thinking that our culture is perfect and the epitome of all that is good and right, but if we don’t think we have high enough moral ground to physically combat terrorism and other violent anti-Westernism, how is our civilization ever going to survive? And if pop culture isn’t willing to express ideas conducive to it, how can such a conviction survive?
“You’re having us on with this one, aren’t you, Michelle?”
Yes. “The Daily Planet” (Clark Kent’s newspaper) reference was the cue to satire.
Yes. “The Daily Planet” (Clark Kent’s newspaper) reference was the cue to satire.
See, in this day & age, with fan websites so prevelant, ya just can’t tell anymore! It’s just so hard to keep up.
Great post, BTW.
Batman already did, in a way. The League of Shadows is very much like Al Quaeda, and the objectives are similar, if the ideology is different. That was one of the interesting parts of it. This might be good.
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