Almost certainly not, but IDK... I think there’s a point where you can only wring so much whacky hilarity out of a character who had responded to witnessing the murder of his parents by becoming an armoured vigilante. IMHO and YMMV, of course.

But Batman is a dark character with dark origins. Zany and fun go completely against the spirit of the character.

Disagree. The Adam West Batman is entirely consistent with the character of Batman because he remains *driven.* Like, everything he does is motivated by stopping crime, and everything in his life revolves around being Batman (to the point of parody). Batman can be placed in larger-scale adventures, and he needn’t be…

I’m more interested in a middle ground thing. Dramatic with a certain gravitas but not tortured to the bone. A dry sense of humour. Brutal to his enemies, but not devoid of empathy. And show me this so called greatest detective for ONCE!

I’m still waiting for someone to do a live-action Denny O’Neil/Neal Adams-style Batman. Not the obsessive Bats penned by Frank Miller, but not TV-show campy either. I want the World’s Greatest Detective.

I swear, it’s like everybody thinks that Batman: Year One came out in 1970, after the TV show went off the air

I don’t know about zany but I’m definitely ready for a fun Batman movie.

Am I the only one that kind of wants a zany, fun Batman? Like the old 60s TV show? Or a family friendly Superman where he’s the giant boy scout he was written as? I’m getting more and more weary of the dark, grimy, grimdark portrayls.

Your title is really inflammatory. Also I have a family remember that takes photos of polar bears from helicopters for national geographic. From his first hand, eyes on, physically there experience, he doesn’t believe a lot of the doom and gloom polar bear stories that are written from national geographic (his…