David Goyer is known for his scripts for comic book adaptations like The Dark Knight and Blade trilogies (and coming up, Man of Steel), and speaking about his new TV series, Da Vinci's Demons, at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour today, he noted, "I'd never done anything historical and period." That being said, Goyer said that he felt Da Vinci is "kind of super hero-y anyway!"
Besides being a great artist, Goyer noted Da Vinci was "also an inventor and war engineer. He was a writer and swordsman and there are stories about being able to bend iron bars with his bare hands."
The show focuses on a young Da Vinci, played by Tom Riley and Goyer noted there were actually a few correlations between Batman and Da Vinci, including Bob Kane basing Batman's cape design on Da Vinci's flying machine design, and both men (even if only one was real) having issues with missing parents and important moments in caves – Goyer noted that Da Vinci wrote about "Something horrific that happened to him in a cave," which will be explored on the series.
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