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Not all Bat man Projects Have made it to the big screen here are some of those films.....
Batman Triumphant
A fifth Batman feature had been in development for several years prior to Begins being approved for production. A plan had originally been set to create another addition to the original franchise to take place after the events of Batman and Robin called Batman Triumphant, with Joel Schumacher attached to direct. George Clooney and Chris O'Donnell were reportedly set to reprise their roles as Batman and Robin, while Alicia Silverstone would return as Batgirl. An un-named actor was considered to appear as The Scarecrow; Steve Buscemi, Jeremy Irons, Howard Stern and Jeff Goldblum were rumored to be in consideration for the part. The film was planned for release in 1999 to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Batman's first appearance in Detective Comics.
There has been no official script review, but it has been confirmed that Triumphant would be a lot darker than the past Burton / Schumacher incarnations. Robin and Batgirl were rumored to be sent off to college and get killed off, returning Batman to his solo roots as a vigilante. However, owing to Batman and Robin's poor response both from fans and critics, Warner Bros. quickly dropped their plans for the sequel, deciding instead that while the franchise still remained promising, it would be in their better interest to take another approach.
Batman: Year One?
Wanting to remain involved with the project, Schumacher returned to Warner Bros. a year later, this time with a pitch to remove Robin from the equation and film a Batman prequel based on Frank Miller's Batman: Year One graphic novel. It was to be a more serious tone on the story, and it would be more faithful to the source material. Warner bit on the concept, but seemed to have no interest in keeping Schumacher on as director, instead hiring Darren Aronofsky to direct the feature and Frank Miller to help co-write a new version of the script. However, the end result of the draft was not met with enthusiasm by the board members. In this version, Bruce Wayne was a homeless man living and working at a mechanic's garage in the Downtown of Gotham City. Alfred was now a middle-aged black man named "Big Al," the Batmobile was merely a souped-up Lincoln Towncar, and Batman's methods were far more brutal than those of the comics. Soon after, an unsatisfied Warner Bros. discontinued the project, which was more akin to a revenge tale set in the 1980s.
Wanting to have another option available, the studio also began developing a Batman vs. Superman film, to be directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by Andrew Kevin Walker as well as a live action version of Batman Beyond, with Paul Dini and Alan Burnett hired for scripting duties. With the Year One story put off, Warner still had eggs in two baskets, but Petersen was unable to make any progress with Batman vs. Superman, and eventually left to make Troy. The Batman Beyond project fared no better, eventually being squashed before almost any work had been done.
By 2003 the plans for a new Batman feature had collapsed one after another. Resorting to desperation, the studio sent out a call for filmmakers to pitch their ideal Batman film. Receiving numerous responses, including a "Year One" tale from Joss Whedon they settled on Christopher Nolan's pitch. Nolan envisioned a trilogy, with equal parts of Miller's Year One, Jeph Loeb's Long Halloween and Dark Victory books, The Man Who Falls story and other popular tales of Batman's early younger days. The studio approved the project immediately, while Nolan hired famed comic-book writer David Goyer to pen the screenplay.
The film was the first part of DC Comics and Warner Bros.' intentions to compete with a mass of films based on Marvel Comics licences. Their plan is to concentrate on one critically and commercially successful film, as opposed to a slew of hit-and-miss pictures, with Jame's McTeigue's V For Vendetta and Bryan Singer's Superman Returns following in 2006, Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman in 2007, Nolan's sequel to Batman Begins (The Dark Knight) in 2008, and Singer's sequel to Superman Returns in 2009. This is made possible by Warner's ability to make its own films based on DC properties, and more tightly control the exposure of their "brands."
