Fan Casting Young Bruce Wayne in Darren Aronofsky's Batman: Year One

Eight-year-old Bruce, leaving a Zorro movie with his parents, playing with an imaginary sword. He witnesses their murder in an alley, kneels in their blood, and receives his father's signet ring—"Your inheritance." The transition from joyful child to traumatized orphan is played in seconds, his face haunted for life. He is the wound that never heals, the ghost inside the Batman.