Batman Returns

Daniel Waters 1992

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103776/

Batman returns to the big screen when a deformed man calling himself the Penguin wreaks havoc across Gotham with the help of a cruel businessman.







                          BATMAN II

                             by

                        Daniel Waters







                                               May 20, 1991








     NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS.
     THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THIS SOFT COPY.




     INT. A STUFFY MANSION--A NIGHT ABOUT THIRTY YEARS AGO

     The viewer floats through an overbearing mansion and
     up its sweeping staircase to where a stern man in
     conservative dress is pacing back and forth, smoking a
     cigarette in a cigarette holder.  He is the FATHER.  The
     throes-of-labor pants and moans of the MOTHER can be
     heard from down the hall.

     Disturbing other-worldly Gaas and Goos chill the air.
     Mother's moans turn to howls.  The Father stops and
     gapes the cigarette holder out of his mouth to see a
     SCREECHING NURSE wail out of the mansion room and
     disappear down the other end of the hallway.

     A TRAUMATIZED DOCTOR next plows out from the room; hold-
     ing his mouth in a frenetic gagging noise.  The Father
     runs into the room.  The viewer remains outside and
     hears the Father's subsequent screams.

     INT. MANSION LIVING ROOM--CHRISTMAS EVE PAST--NIGHT

     A bizarrely corrugated Cage, made up of wavy, barely
     separated black bars sits amid the plush elegant, period
     and Christmased-up surroundings of the mansion.  With
     the