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Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American comic book artist, comic book writer, and screenwriter known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as his run on Daredevil, for which he created the character Elektra, and subsequent Daredevil: Born Again, The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, Sin City, and 300. Miller is noted for combining film noir and manga influences in his comic art creations. He said, "I realised when I started Sin City that I found American and English comics to be too wordy, too constipated, and Japanese comics to be too empty. So I was attempting to do a hybrid." Miller has received every major comic book industry award, and in 2015 he was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. Miller's feature film work includes writing the scripts for the 1990s science fiction films RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3, sharing directing duties with Robert Rodriguez on Sin City and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, producing the film 300, and directing the film adaptation of The Spirit. Sin City earned a Palme d'Or nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Miller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
In 1986, producer and lifelong Batman fan Michael E. Uslan was desperate to see a serious take on the beloved character hit the big screen. Comic book writer and artist Frank Miller was recruited to draft the darker story, focusing on an older Bruce Wayne coming out of retirement. Adam West, who had made history playing the character twenty years ago on television jumped at the opportunity to reprise the role. Uslan was hesitant but was quickly floored by West's dramatic acting as well as the emotional impact the story would now have. The Dark Knight Returns would go down as one of the greatest and most influential Batman stories of all time.
