An industrial heir becoming a superhero is nothing new. A real-life industrial heir playing one on the silver screen is. Alas, it was never meant to be for actor Armie Hammer, great-grandson of Arm & Hammer tycoon Armand Hammer, who was cast as Batman in the scrapped Justice League of America movie.
But the relatively unknown Armie Hammer ultimately found success in Hollywood after JLA imploded, currently appearing in this weekend's No. 1 movie The Social Network as the Winklevoss twins who sued the founder of Facebook claiming he stole their idea. In a recent chat with Ain't It Cool News, Hammer fondly recalled his brief stint as the screen's unsung Dark Knight. "I wore the full functioning Bat Suit. The batarangs were all titanium spring-loaded, they all worked," Hammer said of the costume that Weta made for him.
But the relatively unknown Armie Hammer ultimately found success in Hollywood after JLA imploded, currently appearing in this weekend's No. 1 movie The Social Network as the Winklevoss twins who sued the founder of Facebook claiming he stole their idea. In a recent chat with Ain't It Cool News, Hammer fondly recalled his brief stint as the screen's unsung Dark Knight. "I wore the full functioning Bat Suit. The batarangs were all titanium spring-loaded, they all worked," Hammer said of the costume that Weta made for him.
Hammer continued, "I saw it all. Like I saw the prevised fight sequences. I saw the entire storyboarded film that he had in a room ten times the size of this room with storyboards floor to ceiling, so you walked around the entire room and read the movie like a comic book. What [director George Miller] did… He created something that was so magnificent and put so much work into it, the fact that it never got a chance to be seen by daylight or appreciated by those who really would appreciate this more than anything else… I mean he was bringing in the psychology of these characters more than anyone else ever had." 
"We had psychiatrists with us in our rehearsal process to be like 'Why this?' He was like 'Well you see, with a delusional character like this, like the Batman, who thinks in this such a way, like a paranoid schizophrenic like this, this would be the motivating factor.' You bring so much more to these characters, because it's not just 'Well in this frame you are going to jump on top of this car and you are going to throw your Batarang.' It's like 'Why is everyone doing what they are doing, but in George Miller's true style.' He was going so in-depth in this."
Hammer added that his co-stars received very different training than he did, and that he later found out Miller was purposefully excluding him from group activities so as to drill home Batman's isolation from and paranoia about his JLA teammates.
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Hammer added that his co-stars received very different training than he did, and that he later found out Miller was purposefully excluding him from group activities so as to drill home Batman's isolation from and paranoia about his JLA teammates.
Read more: http://au.movies.ign.com/articles/112/1125247p1.html#ixzz11QZ57gcF
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