It wasn’t going to work considering that you’re dealing with Batman and other characters. You can’t keep showing just legs running or the face moving away.
The worst part of doing it animated is you have to show how the person escapes. Lukic: The real reason is cinematically from a panels point-of-view in a comic, you could easily get away with it. What was the inspiration for that cinematic choice? So no one had time or the ability to be able to go back and do that Riddler section and place it later as a Blu-ray extra.ĭar: One of the things that you do different visually from the graphic novel is actually show the Holiday Killer as a full figure albeit hidden whereas the comic only partially depicts Holiday through close-ups. Also when we got held back for a release for a year, that money wasn’t there and we were already doing a couple of other movies. But we did have plans to do it as a side 10-15 short.
Initially the script was too long and we weren’t able to do that bit. All the other characters we had to make sure were in because I couldn’t get rid of Poison Ivy. Was cutting the Riddler from the adaptation always the plan or did you ever try to fit him in?īutch Lukic: We originally weren’t trying to fit him in. I went back and read the issue and while it works great for the comic and I can see why you would cut him since it’s not really essential for the story you’re telling. Taimur Dar: I knew or at least had a strong feeling that the Riddler and his encounter with the Holiday Killer on April Fools’ Day weren’t going to be featured in the film.
Plus Lukic teases how Long Halloween leads into his next DC animated project and reveals more about the adaptation process. Even despite splitting Long Halloween into two separate films, there were an embarrassment of riches that unfortunately never made the final cut.Īhead of the release of Batman: The Long Halloween, Part 2 which arrives on Digital tomorrow, I had to chance to chat with Butch Lukic about his original plans to produce bonus animated shorts from the story elements they inevitably cut from the original comic. Indeed, translating the seminal storyline, which sees the Caped Crusader racing against the calendar stop the mysterious Holiday Killer plaguing Gotham City’s mob underworld, involved a number of challenges in order to do the original source material justice. To quote a famous proverb, “best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” As producer Butch Lukic revealed in previous interviews the release of Batman: The Long Halloween, the animated adaptation of the Eisner-award winning miniseries from writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale, was pushed back due to various factors outside of his control.
0 kommentar(er)
