The Secret Behind Creating The Batman

http://nypost.com/2017/05/04/the-dark-secret-behind-the-creation-of-batman/

Bob Kane (above) who got all the credit.

Bill Finger 

A new documentary makes the compelling case that Bob Kane, the Caped Crusader’s acknowledged father, unjustly hogged all the credit at the expense of his collaborator, a little-known writer named Bill Finger.
“Batman & Bill,” debuting Saturday on Hulu, follows author Marc Tyler Nobleman’s obsessive quest to learn more about the mysterious Finger. Nobleman’s research was poured into the 2012 book “Bill the Boy Wonder: the Secret Co-Creator of Batman.”

Noblemania: Bill Finger: The Secret Documentary......

Noblemania: Bill Finger: The Secret Documentary on the Secret ...: * not the official title When it comes to Bill Finger, nothing comes easy. The following news has been eight years in the revealing....

Rescuing the "Bat-mobile"

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2015/01/rescue_ship_rescued_the_batmob.html#incart_river

"It's like 'Where'd this thing come from?'" said Lee Shook, who's making a documentary about the car. "It's a time capsule. It's amazing."
The 1971 Ford Thunderbird is labeled the "Rescue Ship," and three decades ago that's exactly what it was.
In the early 1980s, Willie J. Perry drove the car around Birmingham looking for people who ran out of gas, had a flat tire or otherwise needed a helping hand. The Rescue Ship was an icon, covered with flashing lights and a flashy paint job, and equipped with a record player, toaster oven, and more inside.
"You'll find people are not going to stop for anyone who's in trouble," Perry told a reporter in 1982. "Batman was known for helping people in distress. And that's my image too."

#LostHeroes Film now available

http://kinosmith.myshopify.com/products/lost-heroes
It's online ready to purchase!
A great tribute to the Canadian Comic Industry.

 Lost Heroes is the story of these forgotten Canadian comic book superheroes and their legendary creators. Recovering a forgotten part of our nation’s pop culture, Lost Heroes is the story of a national treasure that few of us have ever heard about. It’s the story of a small country striving to create its own heroes but finding itself constantly out-muscled by better-funded and better-marketed heroes from the media empire next door. It’s the story of Canada striving for more than seventy years to have its own band of national comic book superheroes, but constantly failing to keep them alive. The question is: why?

Trailer Debuts for Documentary #TheDeathofSupermanLives: What Happened?

Trailer Debuts for Documentary The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened? | Superhero Hype

The failed Tim Burton-directed, Kevin Smith-written, Nicolas Cage-starring Superman movie that almost materialized back in the late '90s. Famously described in detail on one of Smith's "Evening With" DVDs, Superman Lives would have taken the internet by storm and achieved a cult status simply due to the outlandishness of it all.

#joker Heath Ledger's Diary

"I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary" - Heath Ledger on his preparation for The Joker role in Christopher Nolan's THE DARK KNIGHT.

 Thanks to a German documentary series “Too Young To Die”, which featured an episode on Heath Ledger last summer. In the video, Heath Ledger’s father Kim Ledger flips through some of the pages and talks about his son’s work. It can be hard to hear him over the German translation so here’s rough transcript:

This was the diary. In order to inhabit his character, he locked himself up in a hotel room for weeks. He would do that. He liked to dive into his characters, but this time he really took it to a whole new level.
The hospital scene is interesting because when he was a kid, his sister Kate liked to dress him up as a nurse. He was really funny like that. He also was in the movie. This is a make-up test which was done eight months before. Before the end of the shooting he wrote ‘bye bye’ on the back of the page. It was hard to see this.

taken from  http://batman-news.com/2013/05/31/heath-ledgers-the-dark-knight-joker-diary-revealed-video/

Legends of the Knight Fan Doc

LEGENDS OF THE KNIGHT is a feature-length, not-for-profit documentary film about the power of storytelling to create positive change.

The goal is to inspire everyone on the planet who loves Batman to embody his spirit, engage with the world, and make a difference.

Why Batman?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beyond-heroes-and-villains/201208/dark-and-stormy-knight-why-batman

Psychiatrists...and psychologists...plus others interviewed in the History Channel documentary Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of the Dark Knight analyze Batman more than any other superhero — the character himself, that is. Looking at Superman psychologically means looking at modern mythology. He's the modern demigod myth. While there's something mythic about Batman too, to be sure, he's more akin to the mortal legends like Robin Hood and pulp heroes like Zorro and the Shadow, extraordinary men but men nonetheless.

Legends of the Knight film for fans

LEGENDS OF THE KNIGHT is a feature-length documentary film about this truth. And we are capturing it through the lens of one of the most popular myths of our time – The Batman. But this movie isn’t about Batman. It’s about us. It is about who we are as people & who we desire to become. The most important Batman tales are not in comic books, TV shows, or Hollywood movies. They are within the people for whom the Dark Knight has become a symbol.