Danger!
Public Enemies was a hack job, cut to shreds, massive chunks of story, large portions of characters just dropped.
It irreparably reduced the scope, scale and detail of the story in order to squeeze it into a nice marketable DVD length movie.
I have no doubt the same thing will happen to Year One and all the richness and detail will be abandoned, entire scenes will simply be left out or changed for mysterious esotoric reasons we will never understand, bitter experience has taught me this is how it works when they do direct comicbook to movie ports.
When they do a franchise in a general fashion (like Iron Man) it seems to work.
But if they try to directly translat a specific book to screen it always seems to suck a little.
Watchmen is another example (and further proves DC don't actually care about the mutilation of the source material).
Screen Batman and page Batman are not interchangeable.
Live action movie Bats ("NolanBats") is different from paper and ink comicbook Bats.
Animated Bats (TAS,B&R ...even The Batman) is different from the other two.
And thanks to the fine effort of Batman: AA, we now have, at last, a dedicated videogame Bats to call our own who is also different from all the others.
Porting Comicbook Bats directly into animated form will result in disappointment, but I'll still be buying the $6000 metal plated limited super special edition of course lol.
Public Enemies was a hack job, cut to shreds, massive chunks of story, large portions of characters just dropped.
It irreparably reduced the scope, scale and detail of the story in order to squeeze it into a nice marketable DVD length movie.
I have no doubt the same thing will happen to Year One and all the richness and detail will be abandoned, entire scenes will simply be left out or changed for mysterious esotoric reasons we will never understand, bitter experience has taught me this is how it works when they do direct comicbook to movie ports.
When they do a franchise in a general fashion (like Iron Man) it seems to work.
But if they try to directly translat a specific book to screen it always seems to suck a little.
Watchmen is another example (and further proves DC don't actually care about the mutilation of the source material).
Screen Batman and page Batman are not interchangeable.
Live action movie Bats ("NolanBats") is different from paper and ink comicbook Bats.
Animated Bats (TAS,B&R ...even The Batman) is different from the other two.
And thanks to the fine effort of Batman: AA, we now have, at last, a dedicated videogame Bats to call our own who is also different from all the others.
Porting Comicbook Bats directly into animated form will result in disappointment, but I'll still be buying the $6000 metal plated limited super special edition of course lol.
