Batman Live!

It's not a musical, it's not a Broadway theatrical show... it's Batman Live!

"Warner Bros. and DC Comics are in the early stages of developing a tour, tentatively titled "Batman Live" and starring the Caped Crusader, working with Nick Grace Management and Water Lane Prods., companies behind the popular "Walking With Dinosaurs" and "Mamma Mia!" touring shows.

Alan Burnett, a longtime animation veteran whose credits include Batman and Superman television shows as well as such animated movies as "Batman: Mask of the Phantasm" and "Green Lantern: First Flight," is writing the story and script. The logline is being kept under wraps, but it's known that the show will feature numerous villains."

If you're shaking your head in disapproval because you still have the thought of the Spider-Man musical that was supposed to happen, you have nothing to fear! They've already been doing shows like this at Six Flags Magic Mountain for years. Cheesy? Yes! But with Alan Burnett on board, I'm hoping he'll surpass the "campiness" of a gimicky Bat show, and wow us with some heavy hitting action sequences. Who knows if this will still come to fruition, we have until 2012 to find out.

Read the full announcement here.

Here's the inspiration for the picture above... you'll see why it makes sense.