It’s a big responsibility sometimes, but if I spend too much time thinking what it means to so many people, I could get intimidated. They’re not just made up from cartoons and stuff like that. “We get to work on big, A-list superheroes,” Liu says. “We’ve tried to humanize Batman,” adds director Sam Liu, “so he’s not in the costume for the majority of the film, and it’s more of a human story.” There are so many Batman stories already so to stand out, the filmmakers sought to bring Batman to his roots by making this more about Bruce Wayne. “You’re going to get the loft above a building, a dance club.” “You’re not going to get the Batcave,” explains Adams. Batman: Soul of the Dragon explores Batman in his formative years, and scales back his resources accordingly. Part of this reinvention involved scaling down Batman’s reliance on gadgets and technology in favor of a more two-fisted, detective style approach. In the 1970s Batman comics strove to distance themselves from Adam West’s campy TV rendition which had become the dominant impression of the character since its wild success from 1966-69. And our movie is in the center of that and it just all seemed to lend itself to this movie.” Then you had horror movies that were the satanic panic type cult movies. “You had blaxploitation, you had Kung Fu movies, you had James Bond movies. “One of the great things that they had is all these really distinct genres,” Adams says. It’s an unusually fruitful period to set a Batman story according to Adams. So, it ended up being like four hours just talking about stuff, and what would work, and what would be cool.”Īdams and Timm have a great love of ’70s cinema. “Bruce wanted to add on a Big Trouble in Little China element, which is like catnip for me. “I’ve been pitching Batman meets Enter the Dragon for a while, and evidently, Bruce Timm had a similar idea.” Timm said he’d love to do a 1970s Batman martial arts thing, which led him to Adams.
“I pitch a lot of martial art DC comic ideas,” confesses Abrams.
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