Darren Aronofsky told reporters that in the early 2000th Studio Warner Bros. He offered him to make a film about Batman. The director began working on a script, inviting to participate in the project of the author of the comic about Batman Frank Miller. The film was supposed to become a fairly accurate playback of the story lines of the Batman series. Year first. " But at the same time, the aronophists focused on the classic films of the new Hollywood, including the "French connected" William Friedkin and the "taxi driver" Martin Scorsese.
The latter at that time the film about Batman was "Batman and Robin" Joel Schumacher. In which there were nipples on the costume of Batman. I needed to rebuild the image of the hero, and I worked in this direction,
- told the director.
However, during the work, the director had disagreements with producers. In particular, the aronophists wanted to see in the lead role of Hoakin Phoenix, known by the time on the films "Force Major" and "8 millimeters", and the studio insisted that this role would be given to Freddie Prince-youngee, who played in "I know What you did last summer "and Scoobi-Doo.
Frame from the movie "8 millimeters"
All these disagreements led to the fact that the new film about Batman later removed Christopher Nolan, also focusing on the comics "Year of the first". Hoakin Phoenix many years later became the main opponent of Batman - Joker and received Oscar for this role.