Hey Everyone
Earlier this month I released my first series of Batman Action Figure Adventures, if you haven't seen them there up on my YouTube Channel now. The series itself did really well in terms of the way it was recieved, I'm really pleased that people enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun to make, and offered me a new diversity of doing things, in terms of story writing, filming, etc in comparison to doing something like a Doctor Who for example.
The first series, was in every sense a trial and error thing just to see how the series would be received and to see if Batman had a future. Obviously my subscribers are used to all the Doctor Who's I've done over the past six years, but now I have flourished and there are loads of new projects coming in and ready to blossom.
Now that Series 1 of Batman is done and dusted and out of the way, It's time to start preparations for series 2, now the second series of Batman could come back quite quickly, It might not. We shall have to see how I do in actually filming and editing it to insure it's up on YouTube as early as possible. The second series will be different to the first series, there will be more stories, more villains and more action, but that's good because I think what people crave is a desire to see more of what they enjoy.
I have started to write the scripts, and the camera plans for the first 2 episodes of Series 2, and I hope to be done with all the planning and preparations by the end of July.
Characters
I don't think there is any harm in telling you some of my ideas for Series 2 as a sneak peak into what I have planned for the series. There will be more characters involved, and more enemies for Batman to face.
The Joker - The Joker is back after his indiscretion with Batman in Series 1, I want to explore more this characters origins. Stuff like the red hood for instance, something that will engage the audience with The Joker in my Batman series, like Christopher Nolan and Heath Ledger did in The Dark Knight.Obviously The Joker's character is he's a realist, an anarchist and genuinely mad. He just wants to watch the world burn and I'd like to bring this out with more time to explore it.
So story premise will carry off where events in Series 1 left off, when you have Bruce Wayne taking a casual interest in The Joker, when he has robbed a bank and been caught and sent to jail. It is in Arkham Asylum that Joker hatches a master plan of... Spoiler I can't say any more.
But your engaged right? that's exactly what I plan to do, engage my audience my creating a suspence of dramatic emphasis that the audience want to feel comfortable in engaging in. I think the orgins behind Batman and The Joker and The Joker's back story would be a fine experiment in trailing this out. It's risky, but at the same time a risk I'm prepared to take.
The Penguin
Oswald Cobblpot gets his chance to shine, I really like the character of the Penguin. Mocked as a child for his short stature and beak like nose, Oswald embraced the nickname of 'Penguin' when he made his mark in Gotham's criminal underworld. Known to the public as the owner of the Iceberg
Lounge nightclub, the Penguin secretly has a hand in gambling, gunrunning, stolen goods, and other illcit industries.
As well as all that he is a member of the Injustice League. The Penguin is obsessed with birds and is rarely seen without an umbrella. Unlike many of Batman adversaries, The Penguin is sane and has the impeccable manours of a gentlemen. He is a useful source of information, providing Batman with tips that enable him to foil plots of the Penguin's rivals.
Mr Freeze
Mr Freeze is a very chilled character, that's not a clever pun incase you were wondering, he is just a very cold hearted, bitter, scientific, chilled and twisted character. Mr Freeze is an interesting character. From what rescources tell me from research and belive me I did a lot of research on Mr Freeze.
From what research tells me is he started off as Dr Victor Fries, and the back story goes that he could have been a world class scientist if his wife Nora hadn't contracted a terminal disease. Victor attempted to freeze her in a cryogenic chambar, until a cure could be found, but an accident left her trapped between life and death.
It also changed Victor's body chemistry so that he could no longer survive outside a sub-zero enviroment. Now, as the emotionless Mr Freeze, he wears a life sustaining cyro-suit and stalks the city, stealing diamonds for his personal collection and money to fund is cryogenic research. Armed with his deadly freeze gun, he is a ruthless killer, turning his luckless victims into blocks of Ice. It may interest you to know, that according to some of my research it was Bruce Wayne that wanted to put a stop to Victor Fries's cryogenic research. This in turn gave me an idea of how Mr Freeze could potientally bankcrupt Bruce Wayne, but that's just one of many little ideas floating around in my mind, to play with. It's only one part of one overall storyline. I hope once it's constructed viewers won't be disapointed with the result.
Hush
I have a great story in mind for Hush, which I think your all going to enjoy for what it is. It addresses the criminal justice systom and our trust in the authorities to help.
Sadly more than oftan the system fails us, and we have to defend for our selves and Hush is the character I am using in order to bring this message across. The bandages covering his face hide the fact that Hush is Tommy Elliot, Bruce Wayne's best friend since childhood. As a boy, Tommy attempted to murder his wealthy parents by cutting the brakes lines in their car. His father perished in the crash, but Thomas Wayne intervened to save Tommy's Mother.
Furious with the Wayne family for ruining his plans to inherit the Elliot family fortune, Tommy swore revenge. He grew up to become a gifted neurologist and plastic surgeon, but his desire for vengeance remained. As the devious criminal Hush, he is a master stratagist and manipulator, consumed by desire to kill the Batman and ruin the life of his childhood friend Bruce Wayne.
Ra's Al Ghul & The League of Assassins
Ra's Al Ghul is the leader of the league of Assassins. Also known by another name of the Demons Head, His avowed motive is to restore the earth's ecological balance by killing most of the planet's inhabitants.
His favoured method of assult on the world's population is the use of a bilogical weapon, such as a genetically enegineered, hyperphetical virus. He has lived for centuries as a result of periodic immersions in the Lazarus Pits, pools of rejuvenating chemicals that restore the dying life.
Ra's al Ghul is an expert swordsman and accomplished martial artist. He is also the father of Talia Al Ghul, and the grandfather of the the fifth Robin, Damian Wayne (Talia Al Ghul's son)
I'd like to experiment with Ra's Al Ghul mentalist powers, and coinside them with his main ambitions to fullfill the task The Leage of Assassins were trained to do. What's orginal about Ra's Al Ghul is that his main weapon is not punching or kicking or slashing, his violence is not physical. Ra's Al Ghul's version of violence it to vurbaly attack diplomaic icons and diplomatic civilisations and he attacks them through a mental process of language and manipulation.
He uses the kind of rythems of speech that I have seen many other dictators use many years ago, it's nothing new. Reptative speech, Rythomic speech and use of a kind of rightousness power in his voice that gives him a very disconcerting belive in the utter political garbage that he talks; but he relays it with such urnisnuss and gravity, that it's really disconcerting.
I think what makes Ra's Al Ghul and the Leage of Assassins such a powerful threat is the fact of the flexibilty and uncertainty behind their origins of who they are and what they are. The invisibilty of them is quite creepy, they are untouchable. Ra's A; Ghul himself is immensly threatning, 'You know who is, You don't know where he is, and Batman never see's him coming'. And it is that kind of constant movement, which is very disturbing I think in human nature, we need to fix the enemy, to see it and to destroy it. If you don't know where it is, If you never see it coming, then those vicious attacks are very disconcerting especially if your given a vurbal warning, you've got the message. It's on it's way. That is very threatning.
That's why Ra's Al Ghul and the League of Assassins are in Series 2, and they will be used. There's no doubt about that all of the above will be used in the League of Assassins story. never you fear. I got some awesome ideas for League of Assassins.
So that just names a few characters that will be appearing in Series 2. That's it for Part One, more will revealed in Part Two.
