Batman City of Scars Fanfilm Re-Released, Arkham Asylum’s Influence Found February 19, 2011

When I was working as a teacher, I did a segment about how the same archtypes of stories will continually find themselves into new literature centuries after they were first created.  Batman, oddly enough, is one of those kinds of archtypes.

I have been fortunate enough to be good friends with independant filmmaker Aaron Scheonke, who, along with his father, run the production company Bat in the Sun.  They are known for their graphic novel inspired style, which can be seen in many of their hit Batman fanfilms like Batman Legends, Batman: Dark Justice and of course, Patient J.

Just by looking over their filmography over the past seven years, you can see the heaviest influence to them was the original comic source material.  It was that same source material which influenced 2009’s Batman: Arkham Asylum game and it’s upcoming sequel, Batman: Arkham City.

A year after the release of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Bat in the Sun released their first 30+ minute Batman fanfilm in over five years, and now they’re finally able to bring it to YouTube, so I can link you to it.  City of Scars was released last year, and went viral almost immediately getting around 500,000 views in its first few days of release.  Just like other Bat in the Sun productions, they weren’t borrowing from what the previous movies were doing, they were defining Batman in their own way.

If anyone played Batman: Arkham Asylum and wished that they could see a Batman movie that was more like it, a more psychological and stylistic film with deep characters and a suspenseful story, you should give City of Scars a look.  It’ll defintly hold over those who are still waiting anxiously for Arkham City’s release!