Celebrity writers you want on Batman

[the-wolf]

Dead or alive, it doesn't matter. What author or screen writer or writer of another genre would you like to see or have seen do a Batman story?

My vote goes to Agatha Christie. The ultimate mystery author writing about the world's greatest detective.

[joe27]

ian fleming: i'd be interested in the villains he could have thought up for batman to go up against.

bret easton ellis: out of sheer curiosity. but i'd settle for fan fiction.

[Vidocq]

Well if we are going that far back why not go to the Master him Self?

EDGAR ALLAN POE.

But an Edgar Allan Poe's Batman story would be to much awesomeness packed in one book and the fabric of reality would reset itself over and over causing a thousand big bangs at once creating a new Inconceivable reality. Still, we can dream.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie would be my second choices.

[Young Avenger]

Rob Zombie. Just to see what his Batman would be like

[Augusto]

Well if we are going that far back why not go to the Master him Self?

EDGAR ALLAN POE.

But an Edgar Allan Poe's Batman story would be to much awesomeness packed in one book and the fabric of reality would reset itself over and over causing a thousand big bangs at once creating a new Inconceivable reality. Still, we can dream.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie would be my second choices.

He is my first choice: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Detective Comics.

Agatha Christie in Batman.

Edgar Allan Poe in LOTDK.

[mofo]

im gonna cheat here and say jonathan nolan :D

[DonC]

I'd like to see the Thomas Harris who wrote Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs take on Batman and the Joker. But I'd run the other way if it was the Harris who wrote Hannibal and Hannibal Rising.

[Augusto]

mmmmhhhhh.... Batman vs Hannibalhttp://www.smileyhut.com/confused/g.gif (http://www.smileyhut.com)????

[Lew Moxon]

Edgar Allan Poe or Robert Louis Stevenson

[Kara Zor El]

I'd like to see Stephen King have a go. Be interesting to see what the master of horror would do with Batman's rogues.

[Don Quixote]

Well, Neil Gaiman would be one, and he is going to be writing at least one story in the near future.

Apart from that, Gene Wolfe would have been great. Maybe Richard Morgan.

[Cayman]

Charlie Huston maybe.

[Jared]

.Stephen King doing Batman vs. Something Supernatural.

Kevin Smith with a comedic elseworlds. I'd think it'd be a hoot to see Batman and Robin bantering as if they were in a Clerks movie.

[mattx110]

Oscar Wilde.

Robin'd definitely get some more screen time :wink:

[Congo Jack]

Christopher and Jonathan Nolan and David Goyer writing the return of THE DARK KNIGHT Joker. Nobody could play that version of the character as well as Ledger did, so a recast is out of the question; so bring it to the comic books says I.

[DonC]

Well, Neil Gaiman would be one, and he is going to be writing at least one story in the near future.


Gaiman has worked on Batman before. Check out the Secret Origins special that came out around the time of the 1989 Batman movie.

[jgiannantoni05]

Some great choices already.

my picks: Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Samuel Dashiell Hammett, Edgar Allen Poe, Ian Fleming, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Frederick Forsyth, Mickey Spillane, Albert Camus

writers I never want to see on Batman again: Michael Green
________
Wiki Vaporizer (http://vaporizerwiki.com)

[B. Kuwanger]

I remember seeing "Jonathan Lethem" and "celebrity" in the same sentence before, so he's up there for me. Also, Charlie Huston.

[carabas]

How about instead of Stephen King we get his son, Joe Hill. His comics debut at IDW was quite good.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

Gaiman has worked on Batman before. Check out the Secret Origins special that came out around the time of the 1989 Batman movie.

And "A Black & White World," in Batman: Black & White.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

And I'm somewhat curious about a Jackson Publick/Doc Hammer Batman myself.

[Captain Jim]

Walter Gibson

[Chad]

Writing the film: Orson Welles (just like the urban legend)

On the newspaper strip: Chester Gould

On the cartoon serials: The Fleisher brothers assuming that with them we'd also get the serials.

I wouldn't say no to a Joker story written by Lewis Carroll either.

[Wenatchee the Hatchet]

Dostoevsky. I mean, come on, who would be better suited to telling an epic tale of criminals, crime, and flawed protagonists perservering in the wake of hopeless odds? :biggrin:

My next vote would be Kafka.

And an Andi Watson Batman story would get a few bucks from me because it would be so unexpected.

[nepenthes]

Gamian also wrote the Poison Ivy Secret Origin in issue 36. Along with the Riddler Seret Origin a Batman B&W as already mentioned.

Robert Wright, author of Birdsong and the most recent James Bond.

[Jared]

Christopher McQuarrie, writer of The Usual Suspects.


As for the deceased, a Robert E. Howard Batman could have been awesome.

[The Scarlet Sapien]

Steven King then Scott Adams

[PaddyN]

Cormac McCarthy for the inside the head of Batman, narrative style. We'd piece things together as Batman does.

[Mia]

Jane Austen
Alexander Dumas
Jackie Collins
Dan Brown
Dorethy Dunnette
Emily Bronte

[DubipR]

For Detective Comics:

Dashiell Hammett
Raymond Chandler
Lawrence Block
James M. Cain

For Batman:

Donald Westlake
Roald Dahl
Stuart Kaminsky
Charlie Huston
Lem Dobbs

[BigBoss]

martin scorsese, talk about crime noir, even if he isint a writer.

[Inverted]

Marilyn Manson.

Interesting... earlier today I was thinking about Ian Fleming writing Batman meets James Bond.

[joe27]

Jacqueline Susann. I love the way she wrote women.

Stephanie Brown, Helena Bertinelli and Barbara Gordon could all start out as good friends, trying to make it in a man's world (by sleeping with Batman). The competition will tear their friendship apart and each woman will seek comfort in pills and booze.

Barbara Gordon, deprived of her father's affection, seeks makeshift fathers between the sheets. But when a madman robs her of the use of her legs, so goes Batman's use for her. The ultimate abandonment. She took the green pills.

Helena Bertinelli, the ice queen Batman made melt for sport. The huntress who became prey only to be tossed aside. She took the blue pills. "HeLEEEENNNAAAA BERTINELLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!"

Stephanie Brown, sleazy schoolgirl who thought carrying Bruce Wayne's child was her ticket to easy street. Instead she ended up easy on a street corner. She took the red pills. "Yeah, I take dolls, I gotta be up half the night. Sparkle, Steffy, sparkle."

[earl]

Dostoevsky. I mean, come on, who would be better suited to telling an epic tale of criminals, crime, and flawed protagonists perservering in the wake of hopeless odds? :biggrin:


If you never have seen this Dosteoevsky meets Dick Sprang Batman story, check it out. I think it is really amazing and very cool.

http://againwiththecomics.blogspot.com/2007/08/batman-by-dostoyevsky.html

[Valhalla]

Clive Cussler for non stop action

Frank Herbert

Dr Seuss

[Spiffy]

1.) Real pick: Ray Bradbury. He's even still alive! No clue, none at all though, if he's read a comic book since the 1930s.

2.) Fantasy pick: Good ol' Willy The Shake. Imagine the depth of a Shakespeare Batman story.

[Lew Moxon]

1.) Real pick: Ray Bradbury. He's even still alive! No clue, none at all though, if he's read a comic book since the 1930s.

2.) Fantasy pick: Good ol' Willy The Shake. Imagine the depth of a Shakespeare Batman story.

The Tragical History of Bruce Wayne the Batman
Part I.

[Hatut Zeraze]

William Gibson would be pretty interesting.

I love the Doestoyevsky, Kafka, and Roald Dahl suggestions. Would it be pushing things too far if I suggested Haruki Murakami?

[Lew Moxon]

My list so far

Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Louis Stevenson
Walter Gibson.
William Shakespeare
Yukio Mishma
Emma Orczy

[Santanico]

Ooh, interesting topic. Let's see...off the top of my head, I'll go with:


Barry Gifford (probably best known as the author of the novel, Wild At Heart - which is almost nothing like the David Lynch adaptation of it)
Jim Thompson
Flannery O'Connor
Joyce Carol Oates
Iain Sinclair
Patricia Highsmith
Nick Cave (seriously. The man's a fine writer, as anyone who's seen The Proposition or read And the Ass Saw the Angel will know)
Jack O'Connell (author of the Quinsigamond series)
Nathanael West
Davis Grubb (author of The Night of the Hunter)

[Mia]

Jacqueline Susann. I love the way she wrote women.

Stephanie Brown, Helena Bertinelli and Barbara Gordon could all start out as good friends, trying to make it in a man's world (by sleeping with Batman). The competition will tear their friendship apart and each woman will seek comfort in pills and booze.

Barbara Gordon, deprived of her father's affection, seeks makeshift fathers between the sheets. But when a madman robs her of the use of her legs, so goes Batman's use for her. The ultimate abandonment. She took the green pills.

Helena Bertinelli, the ice queen Batman made melt for sport. The huntress who became prey only to be tossed aside. She took the blue pills. "HeLEEEENNNAAAA BERTINELLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!"

Stephanie Brown, sleazy schoolgirl who thought carrying Bruce Wayne's child was her ticket to easy street. Instead she ended up easy on a street corner. She took the red pills. "Yeah, I take dolls, I gotta be up half the night. Sparkle, Steffy, sparkle."

LOL! You're bad! :smile:

[Greg Anderson]

Tim Burton

[Wind-Breaker]

Mick Foley....stop laughing :tongue:

[nepenthes]

Nick Cave, damn that's a good idea!

[syzygy89]

I think Jim Thompson would kick ass.

[Wenatchee the Hatchet]

earl, just read it earlier this week. Thanks for the link. :)

[shokosugi]

Quentin Tarantino - I'd like to see QT do Joker's lines.