Stories by @nathanbates

Actors Who Could Play Hush in The Batman: Part II

I did Freeze and Ivy already, I’ll do anything the rumor mill tells me.

The Hudsucker Proxy (2024)

sure sure

Sailor Moon (2023)

The moonlight is a messenger of love.

Dogville (2023)

Illustration.

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (2023)

When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners.

A Serious House on Serious Earth

An anthology series that explores the history of the Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane. A spin-off to The Batman (2022)

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)

A wealthy British man gains the ability to see through solid objects with the help of a book he stole, a birdwatcher is tormented by two bullies, a newspaper editor and a mechanic have a strange encounter with an exterminator, and a two men try to save another from a deathly snake.

CASTING CALL: The X-Men Movie

This is how myCast ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.

Dark Shadows (2022)

The last Tim Burton movie I really enjoyed.

David Lynch’s The Addams Family (1991)

Apparently Scott Rudin considered Lynch to direct the 1991 movie. Cast accordingly.

Stardust (2022)

The Kingsmen movies have ruined Matthew Vaughn.

Burton-verse: Year One

For years, Bruce Wayne attempted to fill the void he felt inside by throwing increasingly lavish parties at his cavernous estate. Lately, he’s opted to sneak out into the city, roaming the dangerous streets where his parents were killed in front of him as a child. On one such “excursion”, Wayne mistakingly takes violent action against what he thought was a mugger harassing a family of three. Left beaten and confused but exhilarated, Wayne makes a vow to his deceased father that very same night. He will funnel his exceptional intellect and wealth towards the betterment of his decaying city. He will learn to strike fear into the hearts of the superstitious and cowardly alike. He will become a terrible figure to stalk evildoers preying on the innocent by night. He will become… THE BAT.

The Brave and The Bold

You knew this was coming.

A K I R A

Set in a post-apocalyptic and futuristic "Neo-Tokyo", more than three decades after a mysterious explosion destroyed the city, the story centers on teenage biker gang leader Shotaro Kaneda, militant revolutionary Kei, a trio of espers, and Neo-Tokyo military leader Colonel Shikishima, who attempt to prevent Tetsuo Shima, Kaneda's mentally unbalanced childhood friend, from using his unstable and destructive telekinetic abilities to ravage the city and awaken a mysterious entity with powerful psychic abilities named "Akira".

A Batman Murder Mystery

When members of Gotham City’s upper class begin turning up dead, Batman has to step in and catch the killer.

Goncharov (2023)

The greatest mafia movie ever made.

Jim Jarmusch’s The Sandman (1992)

coarse, rough and irritating.

Reservoir Dogs

When a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.

A Mystery-Ran Machine

A young would-be sleuth tracks down the aging and reclusive Mr. Jones, a former teenage myth buster forced into retirement years ago by a tragedy, hoping to inspire him to journey along into one final, triumphant adventure… what actually ensues is a difficult and revealing journey back to the Spears Manor, the site of Jones and his former gang’s final, fatal case. Our young protagonist will discover that ghosts are very much real. They come in different forms and can wound us in ways from which we may never heal.

Blue Collar (2018)

When three workers try to steal from the local union, they instead discover corruption and decide to use this information for blackmail.