11:30 PM
In his latest Column for CBR, Mark Millar is making a startling claim:

"The embryonic superhero concept wasn't even ten years old when perhaps the most illustrious director of his day, Orson Welles, seriously considered doing a Batman picture and even got as far as production designs, an early draft of a script and some casting photographs featuring various friends and colleagues in prototypes of what would eventually become the finished costumes."

That's right: a Batman film directed by Orson Welles. Frankly, my hoax detector is registering some background radiation, especially since a Google search on his supposed source, "movie critic and respected film historian" Lionel Hutton comes up dry. But I'll join the rest of the fans in spending the weekend not just wishing but hoping it's true.