Darren Aronofsky’s Batman rumors, the problem with bloggers, and reading the fucking source before you make stupid posts.

People on the internet are so fucking annoying. Especially people who write blogs. Despite that statement being steeped in irony, the recent quote that DA dropped about making a comic book just highlights how the internet can’t be trusted.

DA most certainly didn’t say anything about making a  fucking “batman movie” or anything related to that.

But the internets were inundated with fucking lies and misinformation claiming he was thinking about making another batman movie. Not true at all.

Here is the original back and forth text, quoted EXACTLY (cut and paste) from here, please read it:

CoF: Speaking of which, you’ve worked in the comic-book medium before, with your adaptation of The Fountain (2006), and the tie-in book to Pi. Do you ever feel like realising your vision of something like the Batman story that you were working on as a comic book?

DA: Well, we’re actually doing one. It hasn’t really been announced, I don’t know if I should give you the scoop! But we’re getting there. We’re doing a comic book of a script that’s really hard to make and we’re going to do a comic version first and see what happens…

It seems like if you come up with an original script, in Hollywood it’s not as effective as a comic book. It doesn’t even have to be successful as a comic; I mean how successful were Kick-Ass or Scott Pilgrim? Those were fringe comics, right, and they were basically turned in to big pictures.

People…read the actual source of information and extrapolate facts out of it. What I think happened is most people got a story off Google that said something like: “Batman adaption being pitched by Aronofsky” or something like that.

Then the information was interpreted through an incorrect lens. All DA said was that he was making a comic book because it was a cool way to get a movie made, like Scott Pilgs and Kickass did. Both of those works were made, essentially, while their respective movies were being made.

Moreover, the term “comic-book movie” does not mean super heroes. It might to the mainstream, but even the fucking article DA was interviewed in proves that isn’t true. His movie The Fountain was eventually made into a graphic novel just to get it on any medium possible. The greatest novel I read the past six months was actually a “comic” called Black Hole. Anyone who has read the graphic novel knows it is thematically existential, has nothing to do with superheroes, and is a devastatingly dramatic.

My point is: many people make comics as great visual, pitching device. Also, it allows for a preexisting audience to develop. A comic I have by Johnathan Ross, Turf, is a great example of this. He made it, released less than 100,000 issues, and now Matthew Vaughn is considering adapting it. Sound familiar?

Read the fucking small print people…

-Collin