Bob Garlen Presents... BANE, a DC Black Label Origin Movie Synopsis and Fancast

The DC Black Label was a pitch by filmmaker Todd Philips to take DC Characters and tell standalone or isolated films that are character pieces deconstructing and reinventing popular DC Comics characters. The first film under this conceptual banner was 2019’s Joker, a film that has risen above the ranks and has become a cultural and box office juggernaut the likes that have never been seen from an R-Rated release. 


This has opened the door for an opportunity to take numerous DC Characters and do something similar that Joker did. Tell adult stories reconstructing these characters in a light that hasn’t been seen by the movie-going audience. Numerous characters are ripe for such treatment and many of them are deserving of it.


There is one villain, a Batman villain, that stands out as a perfect subject for such vigorous reinvention and deconstruction… BANE. Having appeared in two-previous live action Batman Movies, Bane is an iconic villain from the comic that broke Batman. Bane’s story is bigger than his accomplishments against Batman. Bane has a tragic story. Bane has a story that is equal parts Count of Monte Cristo and Shawshank Redemption. Bane’s story is that of a man rising to be a paragon of Human will, and that it’s possible even in the lowest of all possible situations. 


Bane is a wonderful DC Comics character, created by writer Chuck Dixon and superstar artists Graham Nolan, Bane is a character with no true name and a world of tragedy under his belt. He’s a wonderful character, my favorite Batman villain, and this is my pitch on a Bane Origin Movie. 

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My Pitch?

The idea behind this would essentially be the Idea that drew David Fincher into doing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. An adult R-Rated focused trilogy. With a comic book character like the Question, it’s a perfect template. Taking a Character like Vic Sage and putting him in a film Like Fincher’s Se7en would be inherently compelling, dynamic, and different from other comic book films. So the idea that would drive this would be to do a low budget R-Rated Film Trilogy with a beginning, middle, and end that all act like standalone stories with an overarching story telling us about the life of Vic Sage. There’s no doubt that even just 5 years ago the concept would be too foreign a concept, but with films like Todd Phillip’s Joker I can’t help but think this is the time to do The Question as a film, as well as do it differently then the standard DC superhero fair, as an R-Rated Emotionally Dark and Mature Thriller. This is my overall concept of how to do The Question as a trilogy.