831 - Michael Uslan: Batman!
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.8 | This is the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:12.8 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:15.9 | Can you imagine being in your 20s, walking into the office of the CEO of DC Comics and |
| 0:22.9 | saying, and you don't have any money, you just love Batman. |
| 0:27.8 | So you say, I want to buy the rights to make Batman into a movie forever. |
| 0:34.8 | That's what Michael Eustlin did. |
| 0:37.6 | And even the CEO of DC Comics tried to talk him out of it, but they negotiated the deal. |
| 0:45.6 | And again, Michael Eustlin threw his passion and perseverance, figured out how to raise the |
| 0:50.7 | money. |
| 0:51.7 | And it took him 10 years of rejections by every movie studio. |
| 0:54.4 | And he has hilarious stories about his rejections until he finally made the first Batman. |
| 0:59.0 | And now the most recent Batman, which he's still the executive producer of, he owns the rights |
| 1:03.0 | to Batman forever. |
| 1:04.4 | The first weekend in the box office, it's 250 million. |
| 1:08.5 | He writes all these stories and so much more in his book, just came out, Batman's Batman, |
| 1:14.1 | a memoir from Hollywood, Land of Bill and Money by Michael Eustlin. |
| 1:19.6 | It just came out and it's a memoir of his Hollywood experiences. |
| 1:23.2 | He also wrote an earlier book, The Boy Who Love Batman, which is almost, I feel like |
| 1:27.2 | a love letter to the comic book industry. |
| 1:30.0 | Batman's Batman also just came out in audio, on Audible. |
| 1:34.3 | And he also wrote a novel about Batman called Detective Number 27, which is a riveting |
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