The Perfect Source Material For An Arkham Asylum Series

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There is, at this point, enough Batman media to cover every tone, genre, theme, character interaction, and concept tangentially connected to the franchise in great detail. With that vast ocean of content, the upcoming and never-ending influx of new additions to the Caped Crusader's mythos have plenty to pull from.

After the overwhelming success and excellent reception of Matt Reeves' new film The Batman, sequels, and spin-offs are on everyone's mind. There have been two spin-off series announced so far, one centered on Colin Farrell's take on the Penguin, and the other which was originally set to focus on the Gotham City Police Department.

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Reeves recently detailed the ways in which the supposed GCPD series has been retooled to focus on a different element of the Batman mythos. The series will now center on Arkham Asylum, the famed mental institution which is the typical home of most of Batman's rogues gallery. Most big-time superheroes have a dedicated bad guy storage facility or two. The minor criminals of Gotham head to Blackgate Penitentiary, but those who are considered mentally unwell are sent to Arkham. The facility has rarely been depicted as a well-functioning or particularly empathetic organization. More often than not, it's a place of torture rather than anything resembling a medical institution. Arkham was created by H. P. Lovecraft before it was adopted by DC Comics, and the newest film renamed the famous locale Arkham State Hospital.

Arkham is a key part of the Batman lore, but its place in the big-screen adaptations has been very minor. Most of the directors who got their hands on Batman took a brief detour to the Asylum, usually just to drop off a