There’s an interesting article on the Canadian website for CBC News (which I assume is like BBC News, except they substitute the words “Canadian Bacon” in wherever they mean to say “ham”) about BATMAN BEGINS and how it’s part of a current trend towards prequels rather than sequels. I honestly hadn’t thought about it before, but it does kind of make sense. Amongst the the geek celebrities they talked to for the article was Comic Book Resources’ Jonah Weiland.

“It sort of opens up a creative avenue that otherwise would not be accepted,” Dergarabedian says of the decision to go back, not forward, in time.

Dergarabedian also notes that prequels are often used as a way to breathe life into a moribund franchise, a view shared by Jonah Weiland, executive producer for the website Comic Book Resources.

“I think it kind of just makes sense, especially with Enterprise ? because after Voyager, their options were very limited,” he says from Toluca Lake, Calif.

Weiland thinks the same thinking is behind Batman Begins: “They’re just telling the best Batman story that’s available ? his origin story. And it kind of makes sense because once again, that franchise was destroyed, so you had to go back to basics. And you can’t get any more basic than going back to the origin.”

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