Batman isn’t just on the run from Gary Oldman’s Comissioner Gordon and the whole Gotham Police Force after the events of THE DARK KNIGHT but he is also now being hunted down by Batman himself.
Variety say the mayor of the oil-producing city of Batman in South Eastern Turkey is suing director Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. in attempt to obtain some of the royalties from the near $1 billion movie.
Huseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party mayor of Batman’s case includes placing the blame for a number of unsolved murders and a high female suicide rate on the psychological impact that THE DARK KNIGHT’S success has had on the city’s inhabitants.
“There is only one Batman in the world,” Kalkan said. “The American producers used the name of our city without informing us.”
Right!
Because Batman in comics hasn’t existed for 80 years right? Did they not hear about the t.v. show in the 60’s with Adam West or the massive Tim Burton and Joel Schmaucher movies in the late 80’s and 90’s?
Or BATMAN BEGINS even in 2005?
The whole case resides on the damage the massive summer epic has caused on their city (which surely could only boost the economy from curious tourists anyway?) and on the proving that the city pre-dates Bob Kane’s first use of the name in 1939.
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Hahaha this just made my Sociology class so much less boring. Thanks for the good laugh.
The thinks they should get royalties from the Batman movies. But my last name is Batman and, my dads and, grampas and so on ,back to the 1800s