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Title: 20th anniversary cover...discuss
Post by: Gotham Knight on Tue, 8 Jan 2008, 20:07
(https://www.batman-online.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi28.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fc246%2Ftimmax9%2Fbatman_20copy.jpg&hash=9a6b9ff3885fd97360c19badbe997efc16645582)

Is it real or rumor?
Title: Re: 20th anniversary cover...discuss
Post by: Reevz666 on Tue, 8 Jan 2008, 20:34
this is  fake guys...the pics that are used on the cover are pics that I circulated from the original negatives I own which were throw aways that Warner Bros never used for mass production( shadowbat can back me up on that)...it's a pretty cool concept though...the standing Batman on the right it actually a photoshop of two images blended together as the head is different than the one that originally appears on the body...where did this come from?
Title: Re: 20th anniversary cover...discuss
Post by: Gotham Knight on Tue, 8 Jan 2008, 20:38
Blast!

anyway I found it on imdb.com
Title: Re: 20th anniversary cover...discuss
Post by: shadowbat69 on Tue, 8 Jan 2008, 22:24
Good try, but not legit. Yeh, those are from Reevz collection of a thousand pics.lol You can tell that the right image is a photoshop of 2 different pics. The head seems to be a bit too high plus the coloring is wrong compared to the body shot. You can see how they tried to hide it with the heavy shadowing.


On the subject tho, I would love to see something big from WB in 2009 for the anniversary.
Title: Re: 20th anniversary cover...discuss
Post by: DocLathropBrown on Wed, 9 Jan 2008, 10:17
This'd be pretty sweet, at least, I think.

Some of my ideas on this cover came from the piece by our anonymous friend on the imdb boards with his....

(https://www.batman-online.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg515.imageshack.us%2Fimg515%2F7879%2Fbatman8920thmm9.th.jpg&hash=d44561226ca2ac12f3286a82ca409c7ab48383fa) (http://img515.imageshack.us/my.php?image=batman8920thmm9.jpg)

56k warning, pretty high-res!
Title: Re: 20th anniversary cover...discuss
Post by: Paul (ral) on Wed, 9 Jan 2008, 14:31
They are both great looking.  WB take note:  We want an Ultimate Edition 3 disc DVD set for 2009.

Could be a campaign in that!
Title: Re: 20th anniversary cover...discuss
Post by: Darth Vader on Thu, 10 Jan 2008, 06:15
If WB are wise, they'll go hardcore for a 20th Anniversary Batman release. A significant amount of fans are itching for it!
Title: Re: 20th anniversary cover...discuss
Post by: Paul (ral) on Thu, 10 Jan 2008, 15:24
In 2009 The Dark Knight is WB's big priority for DVD sales.  Do you think B89 will be a boost too? Or do we have all we are going to get from them?
Title: Re: 20th anniversary cover...discuss
Post by: Darth Vader on Thu, 10 Jan 2008, 18:02
2009 might very well be our ultimate Batman year, where Burton and Nolan's products are side by side (not packaged obviously  ::) ). That's what I want to see when I go to Wal-Mart next year... an island shelf with nothing but TDK and B89 DVD's.
Title: Re: 20th anniversary cover...discuss
Post by: Gotham Knight on Thu, 10 Jan 2008, 19:51
Quote from: raleagh on Wed,  9 Jan  2008, 14:31
They are both great looking.  WB take note:  We want an Ultimate Edition 3 disc DVD set for 2009.

Could be a campaign in that!

Its unlikely because of the SE editions in 05, but I'd kill for a  3 disk thing, especially if Keaton was involved witrh it this time.
Title: Re: 20th anniversary cover...discuss
Post by: Reevz666 on Fri, 11 Jan 2008, 03:31
Quote from: Darth Vader on Thu, 10 Jan  2008, 18:02
2009 might very well be our ultimate Batman year, where Burton and Nolan's products are side by side (not packaged obviously  ::) ). That's what I want to see when I go to Wal-Mart next year... an island shelf with nothing but TDK and B89 DVD's.

I actually talked to a former Warner Bros. employee back when the SE DVDs came out and I was told that they pretty much cleaned house on all the previous Bat-films by putting out the SE DVD's....I know that for the 89 movie they did multiple takes on pretty much every scene not to mention the fact that there were 2 scenes filmed with Sean Young as Vicky Vale ( the 1st dinner scene in Wayne Manor at the long tabel & the now deleted horse riding scene)...I also know that they filmed a ton of documentary footage that they could still include along with a better commentary( Keaton and Jon Peters would be nice)....too bad we may never see any of it
Title: Re: 20th anniversary cover...discuss
Post by: DocLathropBrown on Fri, 11 Jan 2008, 04:46
I highly doubt we'll see a 20th anniversay version. The 05 boxed set will suffice in WB's eyes, and since B89 was just one installment of an outdated franchise, there's no reason to give it any more fanfare. No real reasons will matter to them, no matter how much they mean to us.

If B89 was the only Batman film ever released, wasn't an adaptation of something as ongoing as a comic book series, or was still "in-continuity", it would have more chance of getting a release. But since the new franchise erases it from continuity, why bother with it? It is a classic to us, but a statistic to WB. TDK and the new films are the bread and butter. That's the biggest reason above all. It's not a "classic", it's an "older movie." Like I said, if Batman had been a character created in film, or was from a novel, something finite, the film would be given more due. But as Batman is ongoing, B89 was then, TDK is now. One replaces the other.
Title: Re: 20th anniversary cover...discuss
Post by: Paul (ral) on Fri, 11 Jan 2008, 09:00
All that said of course, any further releases of B89 are basically profit to WB since the movie is already made, unlike any new Batman movies.

Superman The Movie has had how many re-releases so far, and what about the Donner cut of S2?

With the potential Blu-Ray release coming in the future, I think WB should give us something more.  I really don't mind if they hold off on it for a year of so.
Title: Re: 20th anniversary cover...discuss
Post by: Darth Vader on Fri, 11 Jan 2008, 09:08
Only time will convince me either way.
Title: Re: 20th anniversary cover...discuss
Post by: Gotham Knight on Fri, 11 Jan 2008, 16:33
They'll be another Batman DVD release, but  it'll likely be a 40th anniversary dvd, when we're all 20 years older.