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				<span class="customObject framed item_0"><a href="index.php?op=showcustomobject&postId=5035704&item=0" rel="lyteframe" rev="width: 75px; height: 102px;" class="noHrefOverride">Click to view</a></span>The center off all things cult worship, Joss Whedon, opened up to MTV Splash about his <em>Batman</em> pitch to Warner Brothers, pre-Christopher Nolan. "It wasn't what they did but the vibe was very similar,"  Whedon explained. "Mine was a bit less epic. It was more about the progression of him and it was more in Gotham City. He didn't go to Tibet and meet cool people, but it was very similar in vibe." Wait, is this script still out there? Can we make more <em>Batman</em> movies please, with Whedon at the helm? Click through for more details on Whedon's Bat-story, plus <em>All-Star Superman </em>writer Grant Morrison's own Hollywood pitch for a Superman movie that ignores <em>Superman Returns</em>.				<a href="http://io9.com/5035704/joss-whedons-batman-movie-that-never-was" title="Click here to read more about Joss Whedon's Batman Movie That Never Was">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>
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			<category><![CDATA[The Movie That Never Was]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Joss Whedon]]></category>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:50:00 PDT]]></pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meredith Woerner]]></dc:creator>
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