![]() ![]() “Ben's story was gonna cover something that had never really been covered in comics but was building off of storylines in the Batman mythos over the last 80 years and approaching it from a new kind of perspective,” Oliva reveals. While other Batman movies may borrow from classic comics (Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins loosely adapted the Frank Miller comic arc Batman: Year One, for example, and Snyder’s Batman v Superman riffs on Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns), Affleck’s take on the Caped Crusader was even more ambitious. “I've worked on a lot of Batman things and what was really cool about it was, it was tying together a lot of really cool Batman storylines that had never been really explored,” he says. “When I was brought on, I don't know whether it was the second draft or something, but it was what Geoff Johns and Ben had shown me.” “It was tying together a lot of really cool Batman storylines that had never been really explored.”Īgain, Oliva couldn’t go into much detail, but he tried his best to explain what he liked so much about the script he read. The Dark Knight Returns (alternatively titled Batman: The Dark Knight Returns) is a 1986 four-issue comic book miniseries starring Batman, written by Frank Miller, illustrated by Miller and Klaus Janson, with color by Lynn Varley, and published by DC Comics. “From my understanding, there were a couple of drafts of it,” Oliva recalls. Those duties extended to Affleck’s planned Batman movie, though he wasn’t brought onboard until the project was already in active development. Beyond his storyboard responsibilities, Oliva served as a sort of consultant across the DCEU thanks to his deep knowledge of the general source material and the Flash, in particular. 'In four groundbreaking issues in late 1986, Millers DARK KNIGHT RETURNS delighted and enraged comic book classicists by turning Batman-a beloved but gimmicky hero who seemed to have the keys of life forever tucked into his utility belt-into a brooding vigilante, bleak, grim and full of rooftop psychosis.
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