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As game play resumes on the second half of Super Bowl XLVII at the New Orleans Superdome on the evening of February 5th, 2013, a mysterious power outage suddenly causes half the stadium to go dark. As the crowd begins falling into a massive panic, a hidden trap door opens on the field, with the Joker emerging from it. He climbs up onto the field, shuts the door and walks over to a microphone in the center of the field, warning the Super Bowl teams and patrons that he will blow up the Superdome with the use of a miniaturized bomb inside his coat pocket within exactly 60 seconds unless the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49'ers fans engage in a bloodbath with each other before then. As the crowd begins reacting in horror to the madman's speech, the Batmobile suddenly crashes through a side wall of the Superdome and drives up to the Joker. The top compartment of the vehicle opens, with James Bond raising himself up into view, telling the Joker that he was brought into to stop him ...

This stop motion short film was created as a final project for the History of Animation course at The Art Institute of Tampa in Tampa, Florida, USA, which director Michael Horvath took during his freshman year in the university's Bachelor of Fine Arts program.

The scene of the Batmobile crashing into the Superdome and hurling to a stop at The Joker took over an hour to film.

When The Joker demands to know if the Batman is the driver of the Batmobile after it has crashed into the Superodme, Bond replies, "No, his movie wasen't the most popular of last year; 'Skyfall' was!", a joking reference to the fact that "Skyfall" received a higher box office gross and better critical reception compared to "The Dark Knight Rises".

The Joker references the 50th Anniversary of the James Bond film series while being raised into the overhead hovering chopper when he complains to Bond, "You just couldn't retire after 50 years, could you?! Dang it!!".

The concept was conceived based on the vague question, "who or what caused the Super Bowl blackout?"


Cast overview:
Michael Horvath Michael Horvath - James Bond / The Joker / James 'JB' Brown (voice)
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