Michael Bay's Rejected Script for "The Dark Knight"

Written by Arya Ponto

Thursday, 03 July 2008

Did you know... that when WB was faced with the prospect of moving on with the Batman franchise without Christopher Nolan for a brief period of time, Michael Bay swooped in and tried to take over with his own take on Batman?

The folks at Spill uncovered select pages from this super secret The Dark Knight draft that he wrote. Take a peek at what the most anticipated film of the summer would be like in Bay's hands:

Read the rest here.

Yes, it's obviously a joke.

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Marcus Beasley

|3 July 2008 @ 11:30 AM

This sounds terrible. Thank God Nolan came back. Thank you for pointing out that it was a joke because with Bay's writing talent you can never tell.

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Saul Berenbaum

|3 July 2008 @ 02:04 PM

The best parts are clearly the Shots of the Pentagons.

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Jason Craig

|3 July 2008 @ 03:32 PM

I'd almost believe this was faked.

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Anonymous

|74.68.124.xxx |3 July 2008 @ 04:37 PM

This has to be fake. As writer myself that was just horrible.

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joel - hilarious

|204.191.64.xxx |3 July 2008 @ 05:35 PM

Thats one of the funniest things ive read! Michael Bay is the biggest piece of crap director and i could almost beleive this came from him lol.

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a fan - you hav no talent

|72.137.31.xxx |4 July 2008 @ 01:16 AM

are u f*cking serious??? man you suck ass you piece of shit you're like a baby who writes kindergarten shit.

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Julian Moorer

|4 July 2008 @ 03:59 AM

wow i love the hating.

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Jason Craig

|5 July 2008 @ 03:12 PM

Eh...ok...

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Muhammad Jasim

|5 July 2008 @ 06:24 PM

"We pan to a beautiful woman;platinum blonde with a huge rack.." Isn't that going too far?? Same goes for the next line!

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Muhammad Jasim

|5 July 2008 @ 06:31 PM

Hey did anyone note that black bar below the link of 'read the rest here'? On highlighting it says 'Yes, it's obviously a joke.' Done on purpose? Not sure....