Frank Miller Talks About His Own Version Of Batman: ‘Smaller’ With Less ‘Toys’; Focus More On Relationship With Crime, Gotham City

Legendary comic book writer Frank Miller will almost feel at home when he decides to step in a world of gloom and grey. In fact, he is no stranger to Batman: his Year One and Dark Knight masterpieces were instrumental in the way Tim Burton gave The Caped Crusader and Bruce Wayne a more serious and darker persona in his 1989 cult classic.

With his extensive resume that covered even the world of Marvel, Dark Horse, Frank Miller as a director would be any fanboy's dream come true. Recently, the 59-year old offered a few of his insights on how he would handle "The Dark Knight" should he sit as visionary.

According to Screen Rant, Frank Miller's vision of a proper Batman film is "smaller" in scale. In order words, Frank Miller's Batman would focus more on the hero itself, his relationship with crime, the criminals and to use Gotham "a great deal more."

"Because he's got a loving relationship with the city he's protecting," he added. When compared to Superman, Frank Miller said that Batman's "connection to crime is intimate" ever since the murder of his parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne in the hands of the fictional Joe Chill.

There wouldn't be a lot of "toys", too: everything that has something to with Lucius Fox - even the Batmobile - is a staple element in the Batman franchise. Instead, Frank Miller sees Batman's intimate relationship with Gotham's most wanted as a physical feat rather than relying on his contraption. "He defeats criminals with his hands. So it would be a different take."

Variety also asked Frank Miller about his scrapped Batman movie together with Darren Aronofski in favor of Christopher Nolan's version. He said that his was a "90 minute origins story" based on his Year One book. It was more down to earth and it revolved around Bruce Wayne's transition to don the cape and cowl.

"In it a fair amount of time is spent before he became Batman," said Miller, while inserting that Batman "screwed it up a bunch" before he got crime fighting right. But as far as "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" putting a heavy source on his brand of Batman armor, Frank Miller simply said, "You're welcome!" with a slight rumor.