{"id":2010,"date":"2017-09-17T16:56:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T16:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/09\/17\/darren-aronofsky-wanted-joaquin-phoenix-to-star-in-his-batman-movie-which-was-too-dark-to-get-made\/"},"modified":"2017-09-17T16:56:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T16:56:19","slug":"darren-aronofsky-wanted-joaquin-phoenix-to-star-in-his-batman-movie-which-was-too-dark-to-get-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/09\/17\/darren-aronofsky-wanted-joaquin-phoenix-to-star-in-his-batman-movie-which-was-too-dark-to-get-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Aronofsky Wanted Joaquin Phoenix to Star in His Batman Movie, Which Was Too Dark to Get Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With everyone who&#8217;s actually seen &#8220;mother!&#8221; \u2014 which, as reflected by its &#8220;F&#8221; CinemaScore, wasn&#8217;t too many people \u2014 arguing what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/darren-aronofsky\/\" id=\"auto-tag_darren-aronofsky\">Darren Aronofsky<\/a>&#8217;s new movie is actually about, the writer\/director himself is reflecting on the film he never got to make. Aronofsky was in talks to direct a new &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/batman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_batman\">Batman<\/a>&#8221; movie before the role eventually went to Christopher Nolan, and now he&#8217;s revealed who he wanted to play the Caped Crusader: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/joaquin-phoenix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joaquin-phoenix\">Joaquin Phoenix<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/09\/mother-cinemascore-f-darren-aronofsky-1201877147\/\" title=\"\u2018mother!\u2019 Gets an F CinemaScore, Which Could Mean Trouble at the Box Office\">\u2018mother!\u2019 Gets an F CinemaScore, Which Could Mean Trouble at the Box Office<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI always wanted Joaquin Phoenix for Batman,\u201d he said to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/batman-year-one-darren-aronofsky-wanted-joaquin-phoenix-r-rated-bat-movie-never-183423100.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Yahoo! Movies<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s funny, I think we were just sort of out of time with our idea. I understood that [with] comics, that there\u2019s room for all different types of titles, but I think Hollywood at that time was still kind of in the Golden Age of comics, and they were still just doing the classic titles in classic ways.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/09\/darren-aronofsky-ama-reddit-mother-spoilers-1201876552\/\" title=\"Darren Aronfsky\u2019s Wild AMA: \u2018mother!\u2019 Spoilers, \u2018The Wrestler\u2019 True Ending Revealed, \u2018Rick and Morty\u2019 Love, and More\">Darren Aronfsky\u2019s Wild AMA: \u2018mother!\u2019 Spoilers, \u2018The Wrestler\u2019 True Ending Revealed, \u2018Rick and Morty\u2019 Love, and More<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aronofsky conceived of an R-rated take on the superhero that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2007\/apr\/27\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he&#8217;s described as<\/a> &#8220;Travis Bickle meets &#8216;The French Connection,&#8217;&#8221; which was too dark for Warner Brothers; an executive said he \u201cwanted to do a Batman he could take his kids to,&#8221; which ended up being Nolan&#8217;s &#8220;Batman Begins.&#8221; Read his full interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/batman-year-one-darren-aronofsky-wanted-joaquin-phoenix-r-rated-bat-movie-never-183423100.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! 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Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With everyone who&#8217;s actually seen &#8220;mother!&#8221; \u2014 which, as reflected by its &#8220;F&#8221; CinemaScore, wasn&#8217;t too many people \u2014 arguing what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-wq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}