LOL: What if Michael Bay Wrote The Dark Knight?

Awards Daily 2008 found this 7/10/2008 on www.slashfilm.com [flag]

What if Michael Bay had written The Dark Knight? Spill.com has “found” pages from this fictional spec screenplay which was “ultimately rejected by Warner Bros.” Here are a couple of the highlights I personally love: Read the whole thing on Spill.com . Related Stories: Page 2 The Transforming Aircraft-Carrier That Never Was The Dark Knight’s ... [link]

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Inglorious a Masterpiece?
Published 7/10/2008 by Sasha Stone at Awards Daily 2008
... are equally \m/: “If anyone is crazy enough to fund it, this movie is gonna be awesome.” Moreover, the cover sheet to their copy was seemingly handwritten by Tarantino, with the title spelled Inglorious Basterds [sic]. It even looks like one of those trendy faux-Michael Bay scripts, but an inside source tells me their descriptions, which parallel LR’s, sound legit. ...

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Dark Knight as Written by Michael Bay

Defamer found this 7/7/2008 on weblogs.variety.com

A screenplay has leaked on the Internet , of a recently unearthed Dark Knight script by writer-director Michael Bay. Warners clearly opted to go another way.

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Allie Is Wired - The Entertainment Blog found this 7/8/2008 on defamer.com

After more than four months of hype, it's getting to feel like there's increasingly less to discover about The Dark Knight except whether or not it's good. Variety pretty much took care of that on Sunday , overriding David Letterman's early, ...

DARK KNIGHT AS WRITTEN BY MICHAEL BAY

Posted 7/11/2008 on FilmDrunk.com

Spill recently posted a pretty brilliant piece called Michael Bay's Rejected "Dark Knight" Script. My favorite part is page 72. BRUCE, ALFRED, and the GENERAL are all poring over an enormous computer monitor. It flickers with images of military tactical maps. GENERAL Now here, about 10 clicks south-southwest of the DMZ, our DC10s discovered a BDK with some CMVs. ALFRED ...

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The Dark Knight cast interviews

Posted 7/10/2008 on Filmstalker

There are a ton of interviews online from almost the entire cast of The Dark Knight, and I have them right here for you. There's Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Anthony Michael Hall, Nestor Carbonell, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan himself, all talking about Batman and the characters in the film, as well as a few comments on the Joker....Visit Filmstalker ...

Christopher Nolan, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman on “The Dark Knight” - Videos

Posted 7/9/2008 on FilmoFilia

Here we have four video interviews with Christopher Nolan, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman on “ The Dark Knight “. They talk about Harvey Dent, The Joker, Batman and IMAX. Christopher Nolan Aaron Eckhart , Christopher Nolan , Michael Caine , Morgan Freeman , The Dark Knight

DARK KNIGHT: A Michael Bay Film?

Posted 7/8/2008 on Box Office Psychics

“I have a PA follow me around with a fan all day to maintain this windblown look.” Hollywood is stupid. Here they had a perfectly awesome script for DARK KNIGHT by none other than America’s Director, Michael Bay , and they went with that arthouse pussy Chris Nolan ? Whatevs, man. Whatevs. Anyway, the link to the script is below – and as you’ll clearly see, this would’ve been the best ...

What if Michael Bay had directed 'The Dark Knight'?

Posted 7/8/2008 on Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch

What if director Michael Bay ( Transformers , Armageddon ) had been the one to reboot the Batman franchise, instead of Christopher Nolan? Then next week's The Dark Knight might look like the film outlined in this screenplay . (Warning: Some NSFW language.) Kudos to the parodists who created this, though I have to dock you half a point for neglecting a scene where Batman walks in slo-mo ...

Who Was The Ultimate ‘Dark Knight’? Christian Bale or Michael Keaton?

Posted 7/8/2008 on MTV Movies Blog

You can tell a lot about a person by the Batman he sides with. Most of us nowadays are probably going to go with Christian Bale, right? I mean he (and Nolan’s world) captured the Dark Knight in a way that really raised the franchise to previously unimagined heights (at least in terms of widespread acclaim). But then again, I love me my Michael Keaton. He’s the Batman I grew up with after ...

Michael Bay's Rejected 'The Dark Knight' Script

Posted 7/8/2008 on Cinematical

Have you ever wondered what The Dark Knight might look like written by someone other than Christopher Nolan? Perhaps in your deepest, darkest, dissatisfied-with- Batman-Begins level of consciousness, you wondered what it might look like if tackled by another director. One who had more action movies on his resume. Someone like ... Michael Bay . Well, look no further. A few pages of his ...

Have You Read Michael Bay's Rejected 'Dark Knight' Script?

Posted 7/7/2008 on RopeofSilicon.com

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Michael Caine Predicts Heath Ledger Will Get an Oscar Nod

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THE DARK KNIGHT Michael Bay Style!

Published 7/8/2008 on The IESB

If Michael Bay had directed THE DARK KNIGHT there would be a lot of waving American flags, explosions, military personnel, explosions, more flags, more military personnel and so on.