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Mr. Freeze

How BioShock‘s Plot Was Predicted by Batman: The Animated Series in 1994

Oh, what’s that… what’s that thing where they’re in a underwater city?  And it’s all dystopian, with enormous mechanical guards?  Like, there’s this billionaire capitalist who’s starting a new civilization based on his rules, and he doesn’t want anyone interfering with it?  But then the heroes come in and stop him with help from Mr. Freeze?

Oh right.  It’s an episode of Batman: The Animated Series and it’s called “Deep Freeze.”

Compare to the synopsis for the original BioShock, courtesy of Wikipedia:

BioShock is set during 1960, in Rapture, a fictional underwater dystopian city. The history of Rapture is learned by the player through audio recordings as he explores the city. Rapture was envisioned by the Randian business magnate Andrew Ryan, who wanted to create a laissez-faire state to escape increasingly oppressive political, economic, and religious authority on land.

By New Year’s Eve of 1959, “[Ryan's] paranoia had reached such a level he was hanging dozens of people, mostly innocent, in Rapture’s main square.”

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4 Big Things We Learned About Batman 3 From Christopher Nolan’s Superman 1 Interview

Geoff Boucher has an interview with Christopher Nolan about his Superman project in today’s LA Times where the acclaimed director very carefully says absolutely nothing of substance about his Superman project.

Asked if Superman as a franchise has to overcome a deficiency of truly great villains, unlike, say, Spider-Man and Batman, he won’t bite. “That’s a very sly way of asking a question I’m not going to answer.”

Touché, Mr. Nolan, touché.  However, he did say a number of definitive things about his third Batman movie, which is currently in the script-writing stage:

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