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[ffutures]

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Orson Welles considered making a Batman movie in the 1940s

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=14529

As pointed out by heliograph, this turns out to be a hoax:

http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Batman-Orson-Welles-Hoax

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[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten that. OK, not quite as strange as I'd imagined.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhquKI_wq_0

Radio-wise, he also was Dracula in Dracula, and let's not forget The War of the Worlds. A genre boy, our Orson.