‘Seven’ Writer Andrew Kevin Walker Heartily Approves of ‘The Batman’ Homages
thewrap.comfirst trailer for “The Batman” dropped, fans drew comparisons between the superhero reboot and director David Fincher’s masterful 1995 crime thriller “Seven” – not just in terms of aesthetic influence, but the film’s specific plot as well.
But how does the writer of “Seven,” Andrew Kevin Walker, feel about the heavy homage? He is firmly a fan of “The Batman.”“First of all, I’m just incredibly grateful that people remain aware of ‘Seven,’” Walker told TheWrap during a recent interview about the Netflix film “Windfall” that he co-wrote with Justin Lader. “That’s, in my opinion, all due to Fincher.
Look at [‘The Batman’], and so much of the homage they’re paying to ‘Seven’ is through a Fincher prism, rightfully so.”“Seven” stars Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman as two detectives who team up in an unnamed, rain-soaked and grimy city to follow a series of clues left behind by a maniacal serial killer.
The film was a clear influence on “The Batman,” which finds Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne teaming up with Jeffrey Wright’s James Gordon in a rain-soaked and grimy Gotham City to follow a series of clues left behind by a manical serial killer, Paul Dano’s The Riddler.“I really enjoyed it,” Walker said of the DC adaptation. “It’s kind of that dream of always, as a kid or more accurately as a teenager and as an aspiring screenwriter/filmmaker, you fantasize like, ‘What would it be like if they did an R-rated James Bond?’ Or you would hear a rumor that Tarantino’s gonna do a James Bond.
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