This week, John Jackson Miller returned to the world of war of stars novels for the first time in years The living forcean excellent look at the state of the Jedi and the Republic the year before The Phantom Menace. His next book is a little more down to earth…but no less wild.
io9 can exclusively reveal that Miller is writing a sequel to the legendary Tim Burton Batman Movie In Batman: Resurrection, a new novel from Penguin Random House. “There are dream projects, and then there are projects that you would never have dreamed of being realized. This is the latter,” Miller said in a statement emailed to io9. “People always ask what world I wanted to write in; I never mentioned Burton’s version of Batman because I never thought it could happen. But [PRH] Editor Tom Hoeler found a way.”
resurrection will directly follow the events following the 1989 film, similar to DC Comics. own Batman ’89 Miniseries, as Batman’s fight to protect Gotham continues after the Joker’s death. Always vigilant, Batman fights against the remnants of the Joker’s gang, but between criminal unrest, the ongoing damage caused to the city by the Joker’s gas attacks, and trying to imagine a future beyond fighting crime, he realizes that for both Masks will be necessary to bring Gotham back to light: the Crusader’s habit with cape and Bruce Wayne’s rich wallet. But as he finds his desire to save Gotham becoming an obsession and the forces of the criminal underworld growing more powerful by the day, Batman begins to wonder: Would his greatest enemy have survived their fateful encounter?
“While the DC Batman ’89 comics are based on the Tim Burton films, I decided to do that Batman: Resurrection a direct sequel novel [the 1989 movie]”,” Miller added, “meaning characters from Vicki Vale and Alexander Knox to Max Shreck and Selina Kyle.” Batman returns may appear in the book.”
“Batman has shaped the writer I am. I saw it twelve times in the theater. “I reviewed it for my college newspaper and wrote about it often in comics magazines, including an essay about Prince’s Warner Bros. Records soundtrack,” Miller concluded. “Write Batman: Resurrection was like meeting old friends again.”
Batman: Resurrection will go on sale on October 15th – and it is available for pre-order Now.
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