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Fans are excited about the new book Batman: Revolution, serving as a sequel to Tim Burton's Batman film.
The book introduces a reinvented Riddler, providing a unique take within the Burton universe.
Despite a different take on Batman in modern films, Burton's work remains beloved and influential among fans.

The Batman franchise has seen a lot of interpretations across myriad mediums over the character’s near century-long existence, but one of the most interesting takes fans have seen on the big screen is getting new life in a different medium.

Batman has long been the real star of DC, being to executives at the company what Superman appears to be to readers. As the franchise’s most important player whenever there isn’t a Crisis event happening, the Bat has seen more than his fair share of adaptations, especially on the big screen. While fans swear by the Christopher Nolan trilogy as the standard for the character on the big screen, older fans know that there was something special about Tim Burton’s Batman and its sequel, which is undoubtedly some of Burton’s best work.

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By Catherine Armecin Martin

The sequel film Batman Returns remains one of the best Batman films to this day, and the fascination with Burton’s macabre version of the Bat and his rogues’ gallery has endured as a result. Thanks to this perpetual fascination with that work, fans are getting yet another sequel to Burton’s first Batman film. Writer John Jackson Miller is working on a new project titled Batman: Revolution, a book that will serve as a sequel both to Burton’s 1989 film and a previous book written by Miller, Batman: Resurrection. Set in the Burton timeline between the first and second films, the story will see an all-new origin for the iconic Batman villain The Riddler, eschewing Edward Nigma for Norman Pincus, a reputable genius and trusted Gotham police consultant who finds himself turning to crime when he’s overshadowed by The Bat. Via Collider, the book is set to release on October 28, 2025.

This book is a great new way for fans to enjoy the world that Burton created in a fairly earnest way, with a reinvented Riddler being on the money for the sort of experimental approach that Burton took in his own work at the time. This version of the Riddler, thanks to the book being set before Batman Returns, won’t directly overlap with the version that fans saw on screens shortly after Burton’s turn in the director’s chair as played by Jim Carrey. The market for a sequel project in another medium is a testament to how unique Burton’s work was, and how much people want more projects like that in the modern day. Some fans have even compared the currently ongoing Batman epic crime saga from Matt Reeves favorably to Burton’s work, more so in the way they explore ideas and not as a spiritual successor. Like Burton, Reeves has crafted a version of Gotham and its denizens that will appeal to fans across time, and that’s a great achievement for the filmmaker. Unfortunately, that project is in the Elseworlds line, and James Gunn has confirmed that Robert Pattinson won’t be the DCU's Batman.

There’s a case to be made that Gunn’s decision on Batman won’t be of benefit to the rebooted DCU franchise, as even in the campiest of times, fans have only had to account for one live-action Batman for better or worse. This is another one in a small collection of decisions at DC Studios reflective of the company’s comic book origins, choices that are admirable from a fan perspective in theory, but might not work out in practice. While the ship might have sailed on the DCU’s new Batman, Gunn and the rest of the players at DC Studios can still take some other lessons from Burton’s work to create something as long-lasting and perpetually relevant.

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