Batman: The Court of Owls

Batman: The Court of Owls is a superhero film based on the DC Comics superhero of the same name. It is the eight installment in the DC Extended Universe, and the first film in Phase Two.

This movie features Sam Witwer as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Matthew Daddario as Jason Todd/Robin, Scott Adkins as Talon, Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth, and Abigail Cowen as Barbra Gordon.

## Synopsis

After the events of Justice League Batman and Robin return to Gotham to uncover a hidden organization that has been running Gotham through the shadows. They must work together to unravel this group while discovering unknown connections to them.

## Plot

* A body is found pinned to his wall with connections leading to an urban legend of the court of owls
	+ It is discovered that dick Grayson's DNA is under his fingernails
* Dick explains how the man came up and clawed him while saying, “they will be coming for you soon”
* Later Bruce Wayne is attacked by Talon and falls out of a window killing talon and leaving Bruce injured
	+ In the ambulance talon wakes up and kills everyone in the ambulance before walking away
* After some investigation Batman and Robin begin investigating and discover Talon’s bases throughout Gotham.
* As they get to the latest one the building goes up in flames as they get there rendering it essentially useless
* When they return Dick and Bruce get into an argument about how Bruce refuses to believe it is the court of owls and explains that following the death of his parents at the hands of Joe Chill, he spent months investigating a possible connection to the Court. Allowing his emotional need for a conspiracy to get in the way of the case almost destroyed him, and all subsequent attempts have turned up no evidence
* Up till this point Jason has been making references and such in an attempt to locate his Biological mother and he finally makes some solid headway
* When Jason gets to where his mother is supposed to be it turns out it was a trap and the court then kidnaps Jason and his mother
* Bruce in a fit of rage locates and storms the Courts base of operation in an attempt to get him back
* Bruce and Nightwing are fighting countless talons and such before they finding a lead as to where Jason is, before leaving they inform Commissioner Gordon of the base and leave it for the GCPD
* We then see Talon beating up Jason to the point he loses consciousness
* Talon then leaves to go to one of his bases where batman and Nightwing are waiting for him
* After they finally defeat talon they question where Jason is and he tells them they are too late no matter how fast they are
* Cut to Jason trying to break free of his restraints and his mom crying saying she never thought they would do this to them, they just promised her money and she says how she really needed it.
* As he is trying to break free he looks back at the bomb and sees it is too late, he then seems to accept his death and says I’m sorry…. Bruce
* We switch back over to batman and Nightwing racing through the city on the batmobile with dick saying they will get there in time
* As they get to the building they run up to it before it blows up sending them flying back
	+ Have a kind of silence thing before having Bruce yell no or something like that
* They begin to look for his body and the scene ends with batman carrying the lifeless body of Jason to the ambulance that just arrived
* We then skip to a small funeral with Bruce, dick, and Alfred burying Jason in the family graveyard next to Bruce’s parents
	+ It is here Bruce states that he took a DNA sample from talon and reveals he is dick’s great grandfather and that he believes Haley’s Circus is a front to vetted for potential killers

## End-Credit Scene

1. Batman is shown chasing down three criminals in an upper-class neighborhood. He takes them down and is shown to be using excessive force. A teen approaches Batman and gets him to lighten up on the bad guys. The boy, Tim Drake, excuses Batman's behavior, citing "Justice League stuff, and that owl guy”  as the reason why Batman is so obviously stressed out. Tim properly introduces himself to Batman, before the Caped Crusader tells him to go back inside. Tim obeys as Batman flies off into the night.
2. Jason's grave is shown to being dug up

## Cast

Bruce Wayne/ Batman

Dick Grayson/ Nightwing

Alfred Pennyworth

Jason Todd/ Robin

William Cobb/ Talon

Court of Owls

Commissioner Jim Gordon

Barbra Gordon

## Trivia

The Creator of this film's pitch can be found here.