You know what would be awesome in Batman 3?

[seriousfic]

Aside from the first five minutes being Harvey Dent escaping from the asylum Batman and Gordon stashed him in? A new maniac named Harley Quinn has become the Susan Atkins to the Joker's Charles Manson. She continues to carry out his terrorist attacks and read his messages on the air, while he's tucked away in Arkham. It gets so bad that Batman goes to confront the Joker (who up to this point hasn't been seen).

A Dr. Quinzel leads Batman through the rogue's gallery of baddies (Y HELO THAR CILLIAN MURPHY), giving him the Hannibal-the-Cannibal spiel about how he can't touch the Joker, can't approach the bars, hey remember that time he ate a nurse's face, etc etc. Finally Batman is in front of Joker.

"I came here to talk."

There's a sort of battle of wits, with the Joker mostly in the shadows. And he's completely the killer from Seven (not Kevin Spacey, just someone that'd make you go "HOLY SHIT, IS THAT JOHNNY DEPP?" or whatever). There's been no publicity about this scene, it should be the equivalent of Nick Fury in Iron Man. Eventually Batman gets a vital clue and leaves. Then Dr. Quinzel comes in and begins taking off her glasses, pulling her hair into pig-tails, her voice getting more and more high-pitched until she calls the Joker "puddin" and you realize, HOLY SHIT, IT'S HARLEY QUINN!

The only other thing I could see would be to wait twenty years and bring Joker back as a Dark Knight Returns sorta thing.

Comments

[black13.livejournal.com]

I think they should keep the Joker out of this incarnation of the Batman franchise, and do the rest of Batman's rogues' gallery.

Next movie should be: Catwoman. Every movie is improved by featuring an athletic woman in a skintight catsuit. (Note that I said "athletic," not "bulimic.")

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

Next movie should be: Catwoman. Every movie is improved by featuring an athletic woman in a skintight catsuit. (Note that I said "athletic," not "bulimic.")

The hard part would be fitting in a second villain -- because Catwoman isn't the "AND NOW I RULE THE WORLD!" type who Batman can foil. Unless she said "AND NOW I WILL GET A MOCHA LATTE!" and he foiled that. But that'd make him come off as kind of a douche -- and not having it feel like a redux of Batman Returns. In fact, avoiding a redux of Batman Returns would be hard on all counts. It was pretty definitive, in its own warped way...