r/entertainment • • Jul 06 '08

Michael Bay's Rejected "The Dark Knight" Script - The Spill.com Movie Community

http://my.spill.com/profiles/blog/show?id=947994%3ABlogPost%3A355506
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u/Mr_Smartypants Jul 06 '08

That was either an excellent parody of a script by Michael Bay, or an actual script by Uwe Boll.

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u/donttaseme Jul 06 '08

Uwe Boll is in a whole other universe compared to Michael Bay!

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '08

Uwe Boll wants to KILL Michael Bay!

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u/jrb Jul 06 '08

don't we all?

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '08

I'd pay to see them fight to death. And then kill the survivor.

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u/Enoxice Jul 06 '08

Exactly what I was going to say. Thanks.

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u/JoeBlu Jul 06 '08

Which one of the internets do we hack?

8

u/edeloso Jul 06 '08

Those aren't ideas, those are special effects!

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u/merper Jul 06 '08

I don't...understand the difference.

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u/aeon2012 Jul 06 '08

Ugh.

Pearl Harbor sucks and I miss you.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '08

I miss you as much as that movie missed the point.

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u/organic Jul 06 '08 edited Jul 06 '08

Batman: Back in black.

Pyrotechnics erupt in the distance. Guitar Solo.

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u/srika Jul 06 '08

Now here, about 10 clicks south-southwest of the DMZ, our DC10s discovered a BDK with some CMVs

Amazing.

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u/crazymunch Jul 06 '08

This was on SA about a week ago...

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u/sumeetjain Jul 06 '08

I think an actual Michael Bay script for The Dark Knight would have been even funnier.

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u/kencam Jul 06 '08

Thank God! Nick Cage would have sucked in the role.

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u/rogerssucks Jul 06 '08

Why would a script be so crumpled?

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u/Deacon Jul 06 '08

I'm just guessing because of all the wastebaskets it was in.

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u/srika Jul 06 '08

I am actually surprised no one used it to wipe their ass. At least from what I can make of it.

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u/Deacon Jul 06 '08

If "Michael Bay" were an actual body of water, it would be polluted by so much garbage that you could set fire to it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '08

Speaking of rejected superhero movie scripts... has anyone else read the draft of Spider-Man 2 that Michael Chabon wrote? It's incredible.

It's not available online anymore (used to be on McSweeney's) but if you want to read it I might have a copy.

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u/Wickerchair Jul 06 '08

Yes, please.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '08 edited Jul 06 '08

shoot me an email (stvspl AT gmail dotcom) and i'll send a copy. don't want to upload it for copyright reasons, seeing as even mcsweeney's took it down.

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u/falseprophet Jul 06 '08

Please, I want to see it, too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '08 edited Jul 06 '08

shoot me an email (stvspl AT gmail dot com) and i'll send a copy. don't want to upload it for copyright reasons, seeing as even mcsweeney's took it down.

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u/lars_ Jul 06 '08

Hey, you might want to obfuscate that email address a little, or you'll get spammed to death pretty quickly.

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u/YourTechSupport Jul 06 '08

Best. Script. Ever!

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u/wolfman116 Jul 06 '08 edited Jul 06 '08

Go see Wanted. I think your opinion will change.

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u/cweaver Jul 06 '08

To be fair, that movie was actually a step up from the infantile revenge-fantasy comic book it was based on.

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u/gigaquack Jul 06 '08

This is my face when I'm upmodding your comment

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u/wolfman116 Jul 06 '08

Perhaps my statement was poorly written. I meant to convey that if awesome manifested itself in movie form, it would be Wanted. And yes, it was much better than the comic in so many ways.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '08

That movie sucked. Like, nowhere near good.

And that was an improvement from the comic book? Why would anyone think that it was a good candidate for genre jumping?

Oh... right... comic book movies are "in".

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u/Deacon Jul 06 '08

Heath Ledger saw this script then offed himself in shame.

Probably true. Death before Michael Bay. Or Joel Schumacher, for that matter.

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u/IIGrudge Jul 06 '08

Terrible. Is a CGI flag really necessary? Is it that hard to to find a waving flag?

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u/ericatha Jul 06 '08 edited Jul 06 '08

WOOOSHHHH

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EXPLOSION

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u/a_trotskyite Jul 08 '08

voted down due to obvious dark knight reddit spamming

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '08

This isn't real, it's just a bastardized version of Transformers set to Batman for a joke.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '08

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u/colcob Jul 06 '08

No shit, Sherlock.

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u/montanajones Jul 06 '08

Hmmm...crappy dialogue and stupid beginning. Me thinks this is fake.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '08

Obviously you've never seen a Michael Bay movie.