Bob and Justin's Mad Movie Blog

My name is Bob. My friend Justin and I are aspiring filmmakers and we have pretty similar tastes in movies. This will include our take on what's going on in film and television today as well as updating you on the status of our own work.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

It's simple, we kill the Batman.

I found this on IMDB and I just had to share:

The Mayor of a Turkish city called Batman is suing director Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. bosses for a cut of their Caped Crusader film franchise.

Huseyin Kalkan has accused the brains behind The Dark Knight of using the city.s name without permission in the bizarre new legal action.

The Mayor states, .There is only one Batman in the world. The American producers used the name of our city without informing us..

And Kalkan goes so far as to blame the latest Nolan film for a spate of murders and suicides in Batman.

He also claims the stigma attached to the city makes it almost impossible for local businesses to be taken seriously abroad.

1 Comments:

At Thu Nov 13, 06:47:00 PM PST, Blogger Mike the Marine said...

Easy out: tell him he had to bring this suit against Tim Burton nineteen years ago. Or at the very least against Joel Schumacher eleven years ago. I can understand not wanting to be related to the Clooney/Ahhhnuld version of the Caped Crusader, but if this guy is serious about his cash, he's gonna hafta suck it up...

 

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