Doctor Strange
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Correction... the nineties Batman: The Animated Series was not set in the forties or fifties. It was set in an "alternate" present - with VHS tapes, TVs, computers - that still included boxy suits and fedoras, police blimps, tommy guns, night clubs, and big old cars. (The recent five-minute short they made in honor of the 75th anniversary of the character is the only instance of a thirties setting.)
For that matter, none of the Batman films after the forties serials were set in the past either (and the serials were set in the then-present). Not Burton's films, Schumacher's films, Nolan's films, or the current Batfleck. LOTS of noir influence in the production design and lighting/cinematography in all of them, but always set in an alternate present.
(Many of those other nineties films that followed Burton's hugely successful Batman in an attempt to cash in on the comics trend - The Phantom, The Shadow, Dick Tracy, The Rocketeer - WERE set in the thirties/forties. But no Batman projects.)
Sorry to be so pedantic, but I take my Batman adaptations seriously.
For that matter, none of the Batman films after the forties serials were set in the past either (and the serials were set in the then-present). Not Burton's films, Schumacher's films, Nolan's films, or the current Batfleck. LOTS of noir influence in the production design and lighting/cinematography in all of them, but always set in an alternate present.
(Many of those other nineties films that followed Burton's hugely successful Batman in an attempt to cash in on the comics trend - The Phantom, The Shadow, Dick Tracy, The Rocketeer - WERE set in the thirties/forties. But no Batman projects.)
Sorry to be so pedantic, but I take my Batman adaptations seriously.
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