![]() Timm added: “That’s kind of a good template on how to treat these characters. This is what I wanna do.’ I called Paul up also and I said, ‘You gotta run it on the show. I said, ‘I’ve got a great story and Dini wrote it and if this isn’t what you’re looking for, forget about it. And I remember just being knocked out by it. You can definitely see all of those influences! It’s probably one of the reasons why I connected with the story so much, because I loved those Universal and Hammer horror films as well.īurnett went on to share his experience reading the story for the first time: “I sat down and I’m reading this - it was a two- or three-page, single-spaced story. So we wove that all together, and that became Mr. The lost love who’s dead but maybe not completely gone, and that mournfulness. Phibes in there, there’s a little bit of Edgar Allan Poe. There’s probably a little bit of Dracula in there, there’s probably a little bit of Dr. How do I get him to that point? Alan and Bruce and I talked about horror movies - we’re big fans of classic Hammer horror and Universal horror. I thought, Let’s work backward from that. I thought, That’s kind of cool, kind of gets you at the heart. When talking about coming up with his initial concept for the story, Dini explained: “I came up with an image of him sitting in a cell, crying, and his tears becoming snowflakes. Freeze story,” and Burnett told him to write it up. and move on to the next thing when writer and producer Alan Burnett sat down with him and asked him about doing something for the series and asked if he had any story ideas that he’d like to do, and he said: “Well, yeah, I do have this idea for a Mr. Writer Paul Dini was actually looking to leave Warner Bros. I specifically said at the time, ‘What if ice isn’t just a motif, but if it’s also an emotional thing with him? For instance, if his wife had a tragic death, and then his response to it is that he’s emotionally closed off he’s emotionally frozen.’ And Mitch and Paul went, ‘That’s something!’ So we had written that down real quickly as a note.” Freeze and give him some gravitas, that’s what we should be doing with all of those secondary characters. And I thought, Well, if we can take a character like Mr. Timm went on to say: “He wasn’t really considered one of Batman’s top villains. Co-creator Bruce Timmexplained that he brought up the character in one of their development meetings describing him as “just kind of a throwaway character in the comics.” Thanks to on breakdown of the series we have some interesting details on how that fan-favorite episode actually came together. The version of the character in this episode is the best version of the character that I’ve seen. One of my all-time favorite episodes of Batman: The Animated Series was “Heart of Ice” which beautifully reimagined the classic Batman villain Mr. ![]()
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