Batman sues Christopher Nolan

Mr E

Heh...

There is a little city in the wonderful country of Turkey called Batman. Serious. No joking there. Batman.

Well this tiny city with a coincidentally cool name has fallen on dark times, and their wonderful idea to rejuvinate its coffers by suing Christopher Nolan.

Yeah, you read that right. Nolan.

“The royalty of the name ‘Batman’ belongs to us … There is only one Batman in the world. The American producers used the name of our city without informing us,” [Mayor of Batman city, Hüseyin] Kalkan told the Doğan news agency… Mayor Kalkan, speaking to the Hürriyet Daily News and the Economic Review, said last year foreign media picked up on Batman and the city’s increasing suicide rates among women. He said a columnist asked why Batman’s mayor did not sue the movie Batman for royalties while struggling with economic problems. “We found this criticism right and started to look for legal possibilities of a case like that,” he said.

And so, Kalkan plans to sue not DC Comics, who own the character, nor Warner Bros., who own DC Comics, but Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight.

More here: http://www.themovieblog.com/2008/11/batman-turkey-sues-nolan-over-batman

I wonder if Hüseyin Kalkan looks like Borat.

latenia

They should team up with Casablanca, Chicago and Philadelphia and bring a class action suit.

lostexpectation

its gotham city isn't it