The Dark Knight Returns (2016)

The Dark Knight Returns is a special movie of Frank Miller, the one who wrote the original animated The Dark Knight Returns show/short film. It has nothing to do with Christian Bale 's Batman and will feature a much darker tone and will be rated R.

Cast

 * Sean Penn as Bruce Wayne / Batman
 * Stuart Townsend as Jason Todd / Red Hood
 * Vincent Perez as The Joker
 * Julianne Moore as Ellen Yindel
 * Gene Hackman as Alfred Pennyworth
 * Ben Affleck as Young Bruce Wayne (flashbacks)
 * Daniel Day-Lewis as Oliver Queen
 * Nicholas Cage as Harvey Dent / Two-Face
 * Ed Harris as James "Jim" Gordon
 * TBA as Waylon Jones / Killer Croc

Story
20 years after Jason Todd died and Bruce left the mantle of Batman, he is an old retired and drunken man with no home, but a filthy apartment in a small town in Gotham City. He is horridly violently imagining about Jason's death when he was in his 50s. He comes back when the Joker and Red Hood rise to cause chaos and carnages so gruesome and demented, that even the military cannot handle it.

Important Events In Chronological Order

 * 1) Bruce Wayne is sleeping on his bed, starting to bleed as he imagines Jason Todd nearly getting gutted by The Joker.
 * 2) The Joker is at Arkham Asylum, laughing at Jonathan Crane's dead body.
 * 3) The retired commissioner of the GCPD, Jim Gordon, talks to Ellen Yindel, Bruce's ex-girlfriend during his 10th year as the Caped Crusader, about how there will be bloodshed in the city.
 * 4) Bruce is shaving as he sees Jason getting beat up by Joker in the mirror
 * 5) Bruce imagines a batsign in the sky, then he goes to get his old Batsuit in his closet in the broken Wayne Tower.
 * 6) Bruce visits Gordon and tells about Two-Face's return after Protocol Ten was released decades ago. Bruce puts on his Batsuit to discover a carnage of bodies in the Gotham City Bank.
 * 7) Joker confronts Two-Face and starts a gang war with him
 * 8) Red Hood is killing a group of Joker's thugs along with Batman pummeling them and fighting Red Hood at the same time.
 * 9) Killer Croc is seen the asylum, eating Crane's dead body
 * 10) The Joker captures Batman and finds out that he is Bruce Wayne
 * 11) The retired Green Arrow, Oliver Queen, helps Bruce out by killing Two-Face
 * 12) Joker dies in Bruce's arms

Features and Tones

 * The movie is a lot darker and more thrilling than any other Batman film ever
 * There is a lot of gruesome blood in the movie
 * Music is not much in the movie
 * Bruce Wayne is very quiet, drunken, and filthy in a small and deserted apartment complex
 * The Joker will be more violent in this movie
 * The first 50 minutes of the film will include of violent images of Jason Todd's death

Easter Eggs / References

 * Bruce Wayne has a picture of Roman Sionis near his bedroom
 * Jonathan Crane's dead body is spotted when Batman is fighting Red Hood in Arkham Asylum
 * One of the inmates in Arkham Asylum mention that they saw "a man with flying abilities and super strength rumbled Gotham", referencing to Superman
 * Jason Todd's death is reincarnated for the first 50 minutes of the film
 * Ellen Yindel references to Harley Quinn attacking Gotham City 30 years ago
 * Two-Face mentions Rachel Dawes, his ex-girlfriend during Batman's early years
 * In the broken building of Wayne Tower, on Bruce's desk, has Riddler's staff
 * Nightwing (Dick Grayson) and Robin (Jason Todd)'s suits are in display in the Batcave
 * Barbara Gordon is mentioned by her father as she was killed 25 years ago by The Joker
 * A sky resembles Hugo Strange's face, referencing to his legacy living on after he released Protocol Ten on Gotham City 30 years ago
 * A Falcone shipment that is over 100 years old includes a dead body of one of the Falcone thugs, which references to, even though Carmine Falcone ruled Gotham City almost 50 years ago, some of his mob members still being alive!
 * Harvey Bullock is referenced by Jim Gordon when Jim is at a bar, getting drunk and getting nightmarish conclusions of what Gotham could turn out into.