All About The Brown: A New Dark Knight Fan Film

I started out this evening writing a review of Marvel’s new title The Mighty Avengers – and I will finish that up and post it tomorrow –  but I got distracted by, of all things, a fanfic film. And it wasn’t even a slashfic film, which is a thing that would normally distract me because that is something that many people would call porn.

Instead, this is a seven minute film called The Dark Knight Legacy, directed by Brett Register and written by Woody Tondorf and Chris Landa, set a year after The Dark Knight Rises, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character John Blake as Nightwing (and Daniel Vincent Gordh, the guy they have playing Blake, does a pretty damn serviceable Joseph Gordon-Levitt impression), investigating the murders of a bunch of well-known rogues like Scarface and Penguin, at the hands of The Red Hood.

Make no mistake: this is not a special effects extravaganza. The people who made it are trying to raise $30,000 on IndieGoGo make another episode, so you can probably take a guess what this one cost. But even on a short budget, these guys put together some pretty decent makeup effects, well put-together costumes, and a couple of nice shots to the face… which makes it sound like a slashfic film, but trust me: it’s actually pretty well done.

Oh yeah: and it features Stephanie Brown, which should make many fanboys and fangirls squeal with joy, and will be the most likely reason for Dan DiDio to blow an embolism and start screeching for a cease and desist order.

Either way, you can check out the film after the jump.

(via Robot 6)