Batman: Year One (2018 Reboot)

Batman: The Caped Crusader is the first of 4 films leading up to the events of Man of Steel: Shadow of the Bat and Justice league.

the premise is based solely on Batman: Year One, only adding in origins of Batman and the Joker.

Plot:
At age 8, Bruce Wayne's parents are murdered. At age 13, he travels around the world to train in martial arts. He also worked to peak physical form. For the last 2 of those 12 years, he trained in a secret society by Master Kirigi in ninjutsu. He returned to Gotham at age 25, able to bench press 700 pounds, have outstanding reflexes, and have knowledge of over 100 martial arts.

Upon Bruce's return, Gotham is heavily corrupted, ruled by the mob, and the corrupt cops are doing nothing about it. Bruce first makes his entrance as a vigilante by stopping some drug dealers, working for the highly corrupt cop named Flass. When he arrives home, he finds a bat that flew through the window, inspiring him to become a bat.

Gordon, now a new cop in town, soon works to rid corruption from the force, but, on orders from Commissioner Gillian Loeb, several officers attack him, including Flass, who personally threatens Gordon’s pregnant wife. In revenge, the recovering Gordon tracks Flass down, beats and humiliates him, leaving him naked and handcuffed in the snow.

As Gordon becomes a minor celebrity for several brave acts, Batman strikes for the first time, attacking a group of thieves. Batman soon works up the ladder, even attacking Flass while he was accepting a drug dealer’s bribe.

Batman interrupts a dinner party attended by many of Gotham’s crime bosses to announce his intention to bring them to justice, including Roman Sionis, Carmine and Alberto Falcone, Salvatore Maroni, Rupert Thorne, Lew Moxon, Jefferson Skeevers, the leader of the Sullivan Family, Tony Zucco, and head of the mob, Oswald "The Penguin" Cobblepot. After Batman puts all of them except Cobblepot into custody, Loeb orders Gordon to bring him in by any means necessary.

As Gordon tries in vain to catch him, Batman attacks Cobblepot, stripping him naked and tying him up in his bed after dumping his car in the river, further infuriating the mob boss. Assistant district attorney Harvey Dent becomes Batman’s first ally, while Detective Sarah Essen and  Gordon, after Essen suggested Bruce Wayne as a Batman suspect, witness Batman save an old woman from a runaway truck. Essen holds Batman at gunpoint while Gordon is momentarily dazed, but Batman disarms her and flees to an abandoned building. Claiming the building has been scheduled for demolition, Loeb orders a bomb dropped on it, forcing Batman into the fortified basement, abandoning his belt as the explosives inside catch fire. A trigger-happy SWAT team led by the corrupt Branden is sent in, whom Batman attempts to trap in the basement. They soon escape and, after tranquilizing Branden, Batman dodges as the rest open fire, barely managing to survive after two bullet wounds. Enraged as the team’s carelessly fired bullets injure several people outside, Batman beats the team into submission and, after using a device to attract the bats of his cave to him, he flees amid the chaos.

Selina Kyle, after witnessing him in action, dons a costume of her own to begin a life of crime. Gordon has a brief affair with Essen, while Batman intimidates a mob drug dealer for information. The dealer comes to Gordon to testify against Flass, who is brought up on charges. Upset with Gordon's exploits, Loeb blackmails Gordon against pressing charges with proof of his affair.

After bringing Barbara with him to interview Bruce Wayne, investigating his connection to Batman, Gordon confesses the affair to her. Batman sneaks into Penguin’s manor, overhearing a plan against Gordon, but is interrupted when Selina Kyle, hoping to build a reputation after her robberies were pinned on Batman, attacks Penguin and his bodyguards, aided from afar by Batman.

Identifying Cobblepot’s plan as the morning comes, the uncostumed Bruce leaves to help. While leaving home, Gordon spots a motorcyclist enter his garage. Suspicious, Gordon enters to see Johnny Vitti, Cobblepot’s right hand man, and his thugs holding his family hostage. Gordon decisively shoots the thugs and chases Vitti, who has fled with the baby. The mysterious motorcyclist, now revealed to the reader as Bruce Wayne, rushes out to chase Vitti. Gordon blows out Vitti's car tire on a bridge and the two fight hand-to-hand, with Gordon losing his glasses, before Vitti and James Gordon Junior fall over the side. Bruce leaps over the railing and saves the baby. Gordon realizes that he is standing before an unmasked Batman, but says that he is "practically blind without glasses," and lets Bruce go.

Batman also fights and defeats the red hood (who later becomes the joker), along with the other mobsters with him, by accidentally throwing him into the acid bath. Flass turns on Loeb, supplying Dent with evidence and testimony, and Loeb resigns. Gordon is promoted to captain and stands on the rooftop waiting to meet Batman to discuss somebody called The Joker, who is plotting to poison the reservoir.

Cast:
Batman- Ben Affleck

Grodon- Bryan Cranston

Selina Kyle- Eva Green

The Penguin- Joe Pesci

Harvey Dent- Timothy Olyphant