{"id":2710,"date":"2004-07-30T04:33:29","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T18:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/30\/batman-begins\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:59:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:59:31","slug":"batman-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/30\/batman-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I knew that Waner Brothers was working on bringing the Batman franchise back from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0790732912\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Batman and Robin\">neon grave<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001708\/\" title=\"Joel Schumacher\">Joel Schumacher<\/a> buried it in, I had no idea that the project was this far along: the <a href=\"http:\/\/batmanbegins.warnerbros.com\/\" title=\"Batman Begins\">teaser trailer<\/a> has just been posted.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer doesn&#8217;t really show me enough to be absolutely sure, but it does look promising. What looks more promising, however, was <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0372784\/\" title=\"Batman Begins\">the cast<\/a> they&#8217;ve lined up for this thing!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Director: <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0634240\/\" title=\"Christopher Nolan\">Christopher Nolan<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B0000640SA\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Memento\">Memento<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Batman\/Bruce Wayne: <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000288\/\" title=\"Christian Bale\">Christian Bale<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ducard: <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000553\/\" title=\"Liam Neeson\">Liam Neeson<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Alfred Pennyworth: <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000323\/\" title=\"Michael Caine\">Michael Caine<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rachel Dodson: <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005017\/\" title=\"Katie Holmes\">Katie Holmes<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sgt.\u00a0James Gordon: <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000198\/\" title=\"Gary Oldman\">Gary Oldman<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lucius Fox: <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000151\/\" title=\"Morgan Freeman\">Morgan Freeman<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Richard Earle: <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000442\/\" title=\"Rutger Hauer\">Rutger Hauer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With any luck, we just might get a watchable Batman movie again.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryanwaddell.com\/archives\/2004\/07\/29\/batman-begins-teaser\/\" title=\"Ryan's Rantin': Batman Begins Teaser\">Ryan<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Girls of the Night (Elite Force)&#8221; by Surreal Madrid from the album <em>Black Flys pres. Club Flys 3: Late Night<\/em> (1998, 6:16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I knew that Waner Brothers was working on bringing the Batman franchise back from the neon grave that Joel Schumacher buried it in, I had no idea that the project was this far along: the teaser trailer has just been posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2037],"tags":[2566,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}