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

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.

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!