ISTANBUL – The mayor of Batman, a city recently under scrutiny due to unsolved murders and increasing rates of female suicides, will sue the director of the movie “Batman” movie.
Not a superhero with supernatural abilities, or a person wealthy enough to buy high-tech toys to fight evil, but a simple human being named Hüseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party mayor of the southeastern city of Batman, declared war against his city’s namesake superhero, Batman.
“The royalty of the name ‘Batman’ belongs to us … There is only one Batman in the world. The American producers used the name of our city without informing us,” Kalkan told to the Doğan news agency. Batman is a centuries old city, taking root in the Neolithic age but becoming significant when oil was found in the region at the end of 1940s. Almost a decade before that, Batman was created as a comic hero. Kalkan is going to sue Christopher Nolan, the director of the latest Batman movie “The Dark Night,” not DC Comics, the creator of the superhero.
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5 responses to “News item of the day: Batman sues Christopher Nolan”
I know they are just trying to bring some attention to their town, but come on!
will this really appear everywhere? it’s a silly story. it’s being ridiculed also in Turkey. it will most probably not go anywhere. it’s just a crazy ignorant man trying to draw attention…
“will this really appear everywhere”
Not sure what you mean by that, but I thought the story was hilarious and applicable to my Bat-mania, so you bet your butt it’ll appear here.
I just saw this news on so many sites today, it got tiresome… It’s not about you or IC…
this sounds like something only the people of borats village would be stupid enough to think