So on the weekend came some more rumours for Christopher Nolan‘s DARK KNIGHT RISES emanating from Ain’t it Cool. Apparently Harry Knowles at Ain’t it Cool believes that the previous rumours of the end of Nolan’s Batman films being based on the Batman: Prey story arc with Hugo Strange, reported here before, is true.
Now with the Script due into Warner Bros I’m sure the rumours will be proven right or wrong in the coming weeks. But for the moment let us indulge.
Prey came out September 1990 and finished in February 1991 by Doug Moench, Paul Gulacy and Terry Austin. It involved Batman in his early years of crime fighting when the cops thought he was just another psycho so they hire Dr Hugo Strange who had been skulking around since appearing in the 1940’s comics. Strange is a psychiatrist that puts his career on the line to uncover the identity of Batman. He begins a smear campaign to paint Batman as a criminal and in doing so starts to go a bit loopy even dressing up as Batman. The story also involves Catwoman.
Now a lot of what is involved in the above description of Prey is a prefect fit with the current Nolan film continuity. THE DARK KNIGHT ended with him on the run from the police and telling Gordon to do everything possible to hunt him down. So hiring Hugo Strange isn’t a far stretch of the imagination. Also with Tom Hardy being cast would be great as Strange, especially after his performance in BRONSON.
Nolan had also recently been searching for a couple of leading ladies for roles in the film with one possibly being Seline Kyle aka Catwoman.
Now this is all conjuncture but I think, and it seems a lot of other film and comic book sites are in agreement, that it’s the most likely out of anything. If you want to read more about the Batman: Prey story then Wiki has a pretty thorough rundown of it. Or go buy it.
