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Michael Bay’s The Dark Knight
Published 7/4/2008 by James Cook at TheMovingPicture.net
... dare to dream. This was just too funny not to post. Click the script below to read what a Bay Batman flick might be like. bay_script.jpg Share This: What Others Have to Say: be the first to say something... Leave a Comment: Name Mail (will not be published) Website

Michael Bay Writes The Dark Knight!
Published 7/4/2008 at Cinema Blend News
... experiencing a Michael Bay-free summer. And thank God for it. Yes, Michael Bay has brought us plenty of great entertainment in the past, but this summer's big blockbusters are actually leaving room for something a little different than the Bay-Bruckheimer mold-- the easy-breezy humor of Iron Man , the old-fashioned stuffiness of Indiana Jones , the weird wizardry of Guillermo del Toro in Hellboy , and, oh, some dark movie about a guy who runs around in a cape and likes bats. Spill.com has their take on what that last particular movie would have looked like if the ...

Dark Knight as Written by Michael Bay
Published 7/7/2008 by Variety.com * at Thompson On Hollywood
... 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. ...

Have You Read Michael Bay's Rejected 'Dark Knight' Script?
Published 7/7/2008 at RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines
Just imagine if instead of those Disaster Movie hacks, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, Michael Bay actually spoofed films, but tried his best to make them kick ass all Bay style with explosions and shit! Well, Spill.com took their imagination one step further and made their own passing it off as legit: Apparently, Michael Bay wrote an unsolicited script for The Dark Knight that was ultimately rejected by Warner Bros. Though this is the first I’ve heard of it, I have the exclusive leaked images to back it up. Personally I found the block of the script that I teased ...

'Dark Knight' Raves No Match For Michael Bay's Caped Crusader Who Never Was [Hype City]
Published 7/7/2008 by STV at Defamer
... at her blog, featuring expansive Nolan quotes from a recent screening/discussion and, far more impressively, a look at Michael Bay's little-known original stab at the Dark Knight screenplay: ...

LOL: What if Michael Bay Wrote The Dark Knight?
Published 7/8/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... 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: ...

Michael Bay's Rejected 'The Dark Knight' Script
Published 7/8/2008 by Elisabeth Rappe at Cinematical
... Well, look no further. A few pages of his rejected script have appeared online, courtesy of Spill.com. I think one of my biggest problems with Nolan's Batman films is their absolute celibacy. Batman is a red-blooded American male in the comics; he romances many of Gotham's loveliest ladies. Rachel Dawes would never have been so coldly shoved aside in the comics -- and thankfully, Bay looks to be rectifying this. Plus, I really like his take on Dawes. She knows that she can be sexy and smart without being any less of a woman. And she isn't just a D.A. either! ...

What if Michael Bay had directed 'The Dark Knight'?
Published 7/8/2008 by Gary Susman at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... 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 toward the camera, away from a fireball (pictured). ...

DARK KNIGHT: A Michael Bay Film?
Published 7/8/2008 by CMAC at Box Office Psychics
... 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 thing to happen Batman since Joel Schumacher’s nipple-suit. Something funny someone else did ShareThis

Michael Bay’s Rejected Batman Script is Pretty Much a Porn
Published 7/8/2008 by Cara at Allie Is Wired - The Entertainment Blog
... to help Batman fix the Batmobile. “She leans inot the engine, exposing her breasts, covered in prespiration. The camera zooms in and out on them, emphatically, a number of times.” The only thing missing from that is someone bursting in to fix the copier. I am prayig that this is a fake script thrown into the world of internet gossip in order to punk our blogging world. Otherwise…this is sad. [Spill]

I've Written A Letter To Daddy Saying..."I Link You"
Published 7/9/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (NATHANIEL R) at Film Experience Blog
And Your Little Blog, Too enjoys Whatever Happened to Baby Jane all over again --with an audience. Bette Davis rocks that Grand Guignol, doesn't she? Gallery of the Absurd reimagines our tabloid culture obsessing on scientists instead of celebrities. Hee Defamer Eddie Murphy disses his own premiere for Meet Dave 'this is why he lost the Oscar' Spill Michael Bay's rejected Dark Knight script. Hee --it's all in the details IFC Tilda Swinton is starting a film festival. I just ...

Early buzz: Krofft reruns, Sackhoff, stage smoking, more
Published 7/10/2008 by Whitney Matheson at USATODAY.com - Pop Candy
... Scrubs next season. - A recent episode of Celebrity Family Feud featured cast members of My Name is Earl in character and cast members from The Office . Watch it online . - John Cusack is suing a production company . - What are the best Hellboy stories ? (Thanks, Martha T.) - I agree with Pop reader Ernie B. that this Doctor Who comic looks amazing. - And finally, many of you have sent this my way: What if Michael Bay wrote The Dark Knight ?

Film Junk Weekend Wrap-Up: July 14, 2008
Published 7/14/2008 by Sean at Film Junk
... to Land Tara Reid a Part in A Nightmare on Elm Street Remake David Fincher’s Heavy Metal Too Edgy for Paramount Upcoming Comedy: Mythological Veterinarian The Dark Knight To Get Early Morning Screenings in Some Theatres Disney Producing Synchronized Swimming Comedy Eddie Murphy Skips Meet Dave Premiere Anne Fletcher to Direct Chicago Bulls Male Cheerleader Comedy Matadors The Strangers Director Bryan Bertino Has Two Upcoming Movies Michael Bay’s Rejected Script for The Dark Knight Oscilloscope Picks Up Frontrunners Doc ...

The Dark Knight Transforms [Bat-tastic Fan Art]
Published 7/14/2008 by Graeme McMillan at io9
... The image is a fan creation, courtesy of "Jolin" and "JesterJJZ" of indie video production house Jester Pictures, mixing the movie-style Transformers with the Batman design - Dig the pointed ears, chest and belt emblems - to create the kind of thing we should expect to see if Michael Bay ever gets his hands on Batman in the near future... ...

Batman Blog-A-Thon Day 2
Published 7/16/2008 by Michael J. Mendez (noreply@blogger.com) at Big Mike's Movie Blog
- Now that The Dark Knight is releasing this week, more and more information is coming out about the film, even information about the time in between the two productions. Apparently, Warner was unsure about doing a sequel to Begins because of it's relatively modest grosses and was looking at going a different direction. Here was something they had in mind. So, my friend Robert and I (going to TDK in IMAX on Thursday) were looking at my Lexus today and we both decided that it was both entirely feasible and not at all difficult to ...

“Iron Man 2″ Gets A Writer
Published 7/16/2008 by Rick at TunaFlix
... , those are all the credentials he needs. Hell, they could’ve hired Michael Bay for all I care… I’m just glad to hear Iron Man 2 is back on track. ...

The Dark Knight: In Praise of the Middle Way
Published 7/22/2008 by Graham (noreply@blogger.com) at Movies et al.
... On the one hand, you've got indie-meisters like Gus van Sant and Jim Jarmusch, brilliant, gifted, "genius" people who are off sitting somewhere in some tiny room devising no-budget movies with non-professional actors that will soon be viewed by approximately 17 people and hailed as masterpieces by those 17 people - aka Andrew O'Heir and his 16 friends. On the other hand, there are giant dumbasses like Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich planning on spending $300 million of the studio's money in order to make $250 million back by ...

Holding out for a hero
Published 7/29/2008 by Shane Danielsen at Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
... , had been hired to "relaunch" the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. It hardly needs be pointed out that one of the producers overseeing this is Michael Bay, a man who, in addition to his own genius , has apparently never met a classic he didn't want a piece of, as evinced by his "reiterations" of horror greats like The Amityville Horror and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Which are basically the filmic equivalent of Nickleback rerecording Pere Ubu's 30 Seconds Over Tokyo. Meanwhile New Line, the longtime home of the series, claimed in its press release that it wants the new ...

The Dark Knight: what would Joss Whedon have done with Batman?
Published 8/13/2008 by Ben Child at Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
Batman Get cape, wear cape ... Christian Bale as Christopher Nolan's Batman There's been plenty of discussion already on this blog about what would have happened if Darren Aronofsky had got his hands on the Batman franchise instead of Christopher Nolan, not to mention The Spill.com's brilliant spoof Michael Bay script . In the wake of The Dark Knight's phenomenal success , the latest film-maker to reveal that he was in with a shout to direct what became Batman Begins three years ago is Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the excellent sci-fi ...