While Warners and DC Entertainment have been touting their ambition to keep developing a strong, Marvel-like stable of films, it appears the companies are intent on stretching popular characters’ appeal outside the cinema. And their first target is the Caped Crusader, who is being lined up for something called currently titled Batman Live.
The Heat Vision Blog reports that Alan Burnett and Stan Berkowitz, who have written for the respected Batman animated series, as well as other Warner superhero ‘toons, have been tasked with developing a script for a show which would be produced by the team who made Walking With Dinosaurs into a touring event.
Apparently it won’t be a musical or a theatrical show but a huge arena event for kids and families. Which means you shouldn’t expect a lot of Chris Nolan-style gritty realism. That said, the modern Bat-toons have hewed closer towards deeper themes and less camp plots.
There’s no word on what the exact plot yet, or indeed when this thing might actually get going, though likely schedules are either around the possible 2012 release of Batman 3 or a year before it, in 2011…