Fan Casting Young Bruce Wayne in Tom Mankiewicz's Batman

A ten-year-old genius who witnesses his parents' murder—the moment that transforms a bright boy into a dark avenger. With a natural, unforced presence, Bruce's intelligence, curiosity, and the steel-eyed determination that emerges in tragedy is captured. His final moment with his parents is heartbreaking: he kneels over their bodies, begging strangers for help, his eyes filled with a grief that will never fully heal. He is the seed of Batman—a boy who will spend the rest of his life trying to make sense of a senseless act of violence.