SUBMITTED BY Typhon24

September 30, 2002 —

Harry Knowles of Aint It Cool News sounds off on what he knows about the currently abandoned 'Batman vs. Superman' flick:

Meanwhile, I've also been told some details about the BATMAN VS SUPERMAN now dormant project. It is absolutely true that Academy (hackhackriggedhackhack) Award winning screenwriter Akiva (BATMAN & ROBIN and A BEAUTIFUL MIND) Goldsman is rewriting Andrew Kevin Walker's script... We all know that Andrew's scripts needed the golden touch of Akiva's. I mean, can you imagine how much better SEVEN or SLEEPY HOLLOW could have been?

Apparently the basic story is that Bruce Wayne is about to be engaged when his fiance is killed in a plane accident that somehow involved SUPERMAN trying to save it. Bruce blames SUPERMAN and thus we end up with the two guys going at it for the vast majority of the film, till they figure out that it is the evil Lex Luthor, who set it all up to pit the two against one another hoping that they'd kill each other. That's what I've heard.

Shame that what looked like it could have been a dark forray into the superhero genre could now be 'lightened' - hit the link below for the full report.