'Batman: Nightwing' is a 2012 short film by Jeremy Le and Danny Shepherd, starring Danny Shepherd as Nightwing/Dick Grayson, Talia Martinez as Oracle/Barbera Gordon and Bilal Young as Red Hood/Jason Todd. The film was inspired by Christopher Nolan Batman films and the game 'Batman Arkham City'.
The film is 5:15 minutes long and revolves around Batman first sidekick Dick Grayson, who went on the become his own superhero by the name of Nightwing. I love this character, as soon as he became a playable character in Arkham City I bought it. At the beginning of the short film we see Nightwing going to investigate some brutal murders, once he gets there and starts looking around you can clearly see the inspiration from Arkham City, most notably with the detective mode. We are then introduced to The Red Hood.
It's not a bad piece of work but you can tell it only had a budget of "a few hundred bucks" and some of the fight choreography is a bit stiff. The actings not bad, I'll give it that much, but overall I think that they should have waited and got a higher budget and possibly made it a bit longer. For what they had they have done a good job. It is definitely worth a watch because it shows how a Nightwing movie could work.
The link for the film is below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lIgC-i6Sbw
To be honest I wish the film was longer, I understand that it was just meant to be an example of how Nightwing could work on screen but if they or anyone else wants to go ahead with a Nightwing project they would have to go into his origins properly, because within the DC comic book world there are some great stories revolving why Nightwing went from being Robin to Nightwing.
I am going to give 'Batman: Nightwing' a 5.5/10.
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