Batman 1989 Script

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BATMAN BEGINS By DAVID GOYER. A low KEENING which becomes SCREECHING that BUILDS and BUILDS until- RED flickers through black as the screen. BATMAN BEGINS By DAVID GOYER. A low KEENING which becomes SCREECHING that BUILDS and BUILDS until- RED flickers through black as the screen BURSTS into life: Clouds of REELING BATS silhouetted against a blood red sky, bolting away from camera, MASSING in the. Batman (1989) quotes 78 total quotes Batman/Bruce Wayne Jack Napier Multiple Characters The Joker. Bruce: I know who you are. Let me tell you about this.

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FADE IN:

EXT. CITYSCAPE - NIGHT

The place is Gotham City. The time, 1987 -- once removed.

The city of Tomorrow: stark angles, creeping shadows,

dense, crowded, airless, a randomtangle of steel and

concrete, self-generating, almostsubterranean in its

aspect... as if hell had eruptedthrough the sidewalks and

kept on growing. A dangling fat moon shines overhead, ready

to burst.

EXT. CATHEDRAL - NIGHT

Amid the chrome and glass sits a dark and ornate Gothic

anomaly:
old City Cathedral, once grand, now abandoned --

long sinceboarded up and scheduled for demolition.

On the rooftop far above us, STONEGARGOYLES gaze down from

their shadowy, windswept perches, keepingmonstrous watch

over the distantstreets below, sightlessguardians of the

Gotham night.

One of them is moving.

EXT. GOTHAMSQUARE - NIGHT

The pulsingheart of downtown Gotham, a neon nightmare of

big-city corruption, almostsurreal in its oppressiveness.

Hookers wave to drug dealers. Streethustlers slap high-

fives with three-card monte dealers. They all seem to know

each other... with one conspicuous exception:

A TOURIST FAMILY, Mom, Dad, and little Jimmy, staring

straight ahead as they march in perfectlockstep down the

main drag. They've just come out of a bit show two blocks

over; the respectabletheatrecrowd has thinned out, and

now -- Playbills in hand -- they find themselvesadrift in

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the predatorytraffic of Gotham's meanest street.

MOM:

For God's sake, Harold, can we

please just get a taxi??

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DAD:

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I'm trying to get a --

(shouting)

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TAXI!!

Three cabs streak pass and disappear. MOMgrimaces in

frustration as LITTLEJIMMYconsults a subway map.

JIMMY:

We're going the wrong way.

Nearby, STREETTYPES are beginning to snicker. DAD surveys

them nervously, gesturestoward the subway map.

DAD:

Put that away. We'll look like

tourists.

TWO COPS lean on theirpatrol car outside an all-night

souvlaki stand, sippingcoffee and chatting with a HOOKER.

The HOOKERsmiles at JIMMY. JIMMYsmiles back. MOM yanks

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him off down the street and glowers at DAD.

DAD (cont.)

We'll never get a cab here. Let's

cut over to Seventh.

JIMMY:

Seventh is that way.

DAD:

I know where we are!

EXT. SIDESTREET - THATMOMENT - NIGHT

A desertedaccess street, sidewalkslined with the husks of

stripped-down cars. MOM, DAD, and JIMMY take a deep breath

and march down the darkened street. A VOICEstartles them.

VOICE:

Hey, mister. Gimme a dollar?

The VOICEbelongs to a DERELICT -- nineteen or twenty,

acne-scarred -- who sits between two garbage cans, his palm

uplifted. His ratty t-shirt reads: 'I LOVEGOTHAM CITY.'

MOM, DAD, and JIMMYpause for the merest of seconds, then

move on -- pretending not to hear.

DERELICT:

Mister. How about it. One dollar?

(standing up)

One dollar, man. Are you deaf?

Are you deaf? -- Do you speak

English??

Director:Tim Burton
Written by:Bob Kane (Characters), Warren Skaaren (Screenplay), Sam Hamm (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker, who has seized control of Gotham's underworld.
Batman Script Resources:
  • Batman Script PDF at The Script Savant
  • Batman Script - 1988-10 Draft at IMSDb
  • Batman Script at Sci-Fi Scripts
  • Batman Script at mymoviescripts.com
  • Batman Script at Sci-Fi Scripts
  • Batman Script - October 20, 1986 First Draft at The Daily Script
  • Batman Script at securesites.com
  • Batman Script at Screenplays For You
  • Batman Script - October 6, 1988 Fifth Draft at The Daily Script
  • Batman Script PDF at Script Fly ($)

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