Batman: Uprising (Film 1 in the Batman Series)

After the enormous success of the Batman series starring Christian Bale and directed by Christopher Nolan, Paramount Motion Pictures Group decided that in the year 2019, the time was right to reboot Batman in a new series that felt close in realism to the Christopher Nolan series, but also contain unrealistic themes which were key in Batman comics. Paramount hired director Sam Mendes (who directed the Bond film "Skyfall") to direct the film and writer Billy Ray to screen write the film. This "super" pair immidiatly set the film out to be a success, and this predicted success continued when Richard Armitage was cast as adult Bruce Wayne/Batman, with Jake T. Austin as teenaged Bruce Wayne. Another cast addition was the inclusion of Cameron Boyce, playing teenage Lonnie Machin, and Eddie Redmayne as adult Lonnie Machin, who now goes by the name of the Anarky. The film was rated 98% by Rotten Tomatoes, with the New York Times stating "it's the best Batman film ever made, even an unknown villain stars in this film".

Plot
The film begins with a young Lonnie Machin sitting in his room, writing a letter to his pen pall, Xuasus, who has stopped replying to his letters for the last few months. Lonnie sends the letter and the next day, fakes feeling sick so he can stay off of school to wait for a letter from Xuasus. He pretends to be sick for another week until a letter from Xuases arrives through the door. Xuasus explains that he hasn't been writing for the last few months because as he lives in a poor country, his father has starved to death, his mother has been shot, and his brothers and sisters have died due to dehydration. He then tells Lonnie that he is on death row, which scares Lonnie so much that Lonnie burns the letter.

Meanwhile, teenaged Bruce Wayne and his parents (Martha and Thomas) are invited to go to a dinner party to celebrate the new train rails which have now been spread across Gotham City as Thomas was the one who invented the technology to make this possible. Bruce arrives and has a chat with Mayor Higgs, who tells Bruce that he will never be as good as his father. As a result, Bruce punches the Mayor in the face and begins to run away. He soon runs to a cave and accidently falls down it, where he experiances a massive amount of "bat attacks". However, Lonnie Machin arrives and is able to pull Bruce out. Once the boys are out of the cave, Lonnie reveals to Bruce his story about Xuasus, and knowing that he would not be able to help Xuasus, he came to this cave to kill himself. Bruce encourages him that suicide is not the way onwards and that to stop what has happened to Xuasus, Lonnie should stand up for freedom for every one in Gotham to encourage people that poverty is not the way onwards.

Bruce and Lonnie part ways, Bruce now heading back to the dinner party and Lonnie now heading back out to explore the streets. However, when Bruce arrives at the party, Thomas takes him outside and begins to shout at him for hitting the Mayor, saying that Bruce will be grounded for what he has done and the police will talk to him. He then tells Bruce that whilst he lives with his parents, he will know no freedom, which Lonnie hears as he walks passed Bruce. Lonnie remembers what Bruce tells him and pulls out a gun which he was going to kill himself with. Lonnie points it at Thomas and shoots him, but not before Bruce notices. Bruce chases Lonnie and pushes him over, causing them to get into a fist fight. Martha runs outside, hearing the gun being fired off, and is also shot by Lonnie. Lonnie then punches Bruce in the face and runs off. However, Lonnie notices that Detective James Gordon has spotted him and as a result, storms after Lonnie but Lonnie gets away, and soon dissappears.

Bruce talks to Gordon about what happened, but Bruce decides to forgive Lonnie and declares that he wasn't attacked by Lonnie, but by criminal Joe Chill. Joe Chill is arrested by Commisioner Joey Adams, who beats Joe up so badly that Joe reluctantly accepts the full responsabilty for the death of Martha and Thomas Wayne. Bruce is left to be looked after by his butler, Alfred, but doesn't forget what he says to Lonnie. He realises that Lonnie will be thinking that he has done the right thing for freedom but knows that the way Lonnie will fight for freedom is wrong. Bruce feels that fear should be used for justice instead of being used against everybody, as Lonnie now feels, and so takes his own personal fear of Bats and plans his future as the Batman.

Over the next eight years, Bruce trains in seven different martial arts so that he will be ready to be the Batman, whilst running Wayne Industries. He makes friends with his worker Lucius Fox, who has a hobby in creating different types of armour and is part of the weapons industry of Wayne Industries. Together, they begin to make the Batsuit and Bat gadgets. But suddenly, the weapons departmant is attacked by a mysterious machine gun weilding, armoured man who goes by the name of Anarky.

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