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Wednesday
16Jul2008

Michael Bay Responds to "Rejected" 'Dark Knight' Script

I laughed and I laughed when I read the "rejected" Dark Knight script from Michael Bay last week sometime. Of course, Michael Bay was never involved in the project, so this is a spoof. Hopefully, you knew that already.

It took a lot of time, no doubt, and it's a great tongue-in-cheek mashup of blockbuster formulas, the win-at-all-costs-no-matter-how-f***ing-stupid Michael Bay approach, and the more ominous Batman style.The script features Batman saying things like "Back in Black" as he's getting ready to motor out in the Tumbler and cheeseball lines along the order of "Let's save the world" and an exchange that goes like this:

GENERAL:

Now here, about 10 clicks south-southwest of the DMZ, our DC10s discovered a BDK with some CMVs.

ALFRED:

So, you're saying the JOKER is hiding here, in the Middle East?

GENERAL:

Exactly. Then, he repurposed the AAs for a wide angle of cover reaching around back here to PPD.

ALFRED:

And then he set up an online computer defense grid?

GENERAL:

Bingo.

ALFRED:

Well then, what do we possibly do?

BRUCE

We hack the internet.

ALFRED

Hack the internet?

BRUCE

Yes, hack the internet.

GENERAL

No one's ever hacked the internet before

BRUCE

Well, there's a first for everything.

GENERAL

Okay, I like it. But which one of the internets do we hack?

BRUCE

All of them.

 

And so it goes.

During filming of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - which may use parts of the script above - Bay was asked by Entertainment Weekly about the phony "rejection" that's been flying around the internet, all of them, since the first of the month.

I just have to ask, did you happen to see the Michael Bay's Rejected Dark Knight Script floating around online?

[Laughs] That’s complete bulls---! I might’ve read one line of that.  

Did you find it funny at all?

It’s just, where do people find all of this time?

Oh believe me, Michael, they make time. Now, you get back to blowing shit up for no good reason.

Reader Comments (3)

Yeah, I mean...if we have time to comment on this site then we CERTAINLY have time to write fake scripts!

Unless robots really do exist...

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterWill

How many times does Michael Bay's name need to appear on the cover sheet anyway?

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMcQ

That bit of script makes me think of the last die hard

Thursday, July 17, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterOrinn

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