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Julian Darius on Improving the Foundations

Mike Phillips — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:00:08 +0000

Improving the Foundations" title="Julian Darius on Improving the Foundations" style="float:left;" />As part of its ongoing Patreon campaign, Sequart runs a Book / Movie of the Month Club. Patrons get a digital copy of a Sequart book or movie at the beginning of each month, and they’re invited… [more]

The Road to Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins

Julian Darius — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:00:07 +0000

Batman Begins" title="The Road to Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins" style="float:left;" />We’ve previously examined the road to Christopher Nolan taking over the Batman film franchise, from Batman and Robin through Frank Miller’s “Year One” screenplay. This installment concludes the story, taking us up to Batman Begins.… [more]

Why The Dark Knight Rises Fails

Julian Darius — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:00:15 +0000

The Dark Knight Rises Fails" title="Why The Dark Knight Rises Fails" style="float:left;" />Let me start by saying that I’m glad if you like The Dark Knight Rises. I wanted to. I wrote a book about Batman Begins. I love The Dark Knight, and its ending makes me… [more]

Frank Miller’s Year One Screenplay

Julian Darius — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:00:52 +0000

Year One Screenplay" title="Frank Miller’s Year One Screenplay" style="float:left;" />Late 2000 seems, by all accounts, to have been a turning point for the languishing Batman franchise. It was then that both Batman: DarKnight and the live-action Batman Beyond were cancelled, with Warner Bros. focusing… [more]

Unproduced Attempts to Film Batman’s Origins

Julian Darius — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:00:30 +0000

Batman Begins was, in fact, preceded by other attempts to dramatize Batman’s origins, both on film and on television. In 1999, one production company proposed a weekly series about the boyhood of Bruce Wayne prior… [more]

Get Sequart’s Book on Batman Begins for 99 Cents

Julian Darius — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:00:02 +0000

Batman Begins for 99 Cents" title="Get Sequart’s Book on Batman Begins for 99 Cents" style="float:left;" />Sequart’s Improving the Foundations: Batman Begins from Comics to Screen, by Julian Darius, is now available digitally for 99 cents. The book studies the 2005 film, tracing how it fuses disparate elements from Batman comics… [more]

Sequart’s Books Get New, Cheaper Editions

Julian Darius — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:18:27 +0000

Sequart Research & Literacy Organization’s entire line of eight books of comics scholarship is now available in revised editions featuring significantly lower cover prices. Each of these new editions also feature revised covers and cleaner,… [more]

Sequart’s Books Go Digital

Julian Darius — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:47:49 +0000

As part of Sequart’s roll-out into digital distribution, two of its books are now available digitally: Timothy Callahan’s Grant Morrison: The Early Years and Julian Darius’s Improving the Foundations: Batman Begins from Comics to Screen.… [more]