Yes, give yourself a minute to take it all in. Well after approx. 69 nine years and thousands of comic books, toys, video games, trading cards, television shows, movies, animated series, the list goes on and on, the mayor of "the real" Batman is suing Warner Bros. over the use of it's name.
From Variety.com
"The mayor of an oil-producing city in southeastern Turkey, which has the same name as the Caped Crusader, is suing helmer Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. for royalties from mega-grosser "The Dark Knight."
Huseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party mayor of Batman, has accused "The Dark Knight" producers of using the city's name without permission.
"There is only one Batman in the world," Kalkan said. "The American producers used the name of our city without informing us."
No one from the town of Batman has explained why it took so many years to take legal action. Batman first appeared as a comicbook character in 1939 and the "Batman" TV series started in 1966. Tim Burton's first bigscreen rendition for Warner Bros. came out in 1989. Undoubtedly the fact that "Dark Knight" is about to pass the $1 billion mark at the B.O. played a part in stirring the ire of the Turkish hamlet.
The mayor is prepping a series of charges against Nolan and Warner Bros., which owns the right to the Batman character, including placing the blame for a number of unsolved murders and a high female suicide rate on the psychological impact that the film's success has had on the city's inhabitants."
I really hate reading about stupid lawsuits, and this suit would really top the list. Claiming the franchise is responsible for unsolved murders and suicide is nothing more than an excuse to have the suit filed. To me, this is nothing more than a group of people trying to capitalize of the the success of others. If the Dark Knight film had failed and was not he blockbuster is turned out to be, this case would not even exist.
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