As fans look forward to the Summer 2015 of the Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck starring sequel to Man of Steel (now with more Batman), it’s a great time to look back to what could have been.

In the pre-Christopher Nolan era, Warner Bros was trying anything they could to resurrect the Batman franchise, after it had been put on ice by 1997’s Batman & Robin. One such idea considered? Batman vs. Superman: Asylum, a script written in 2002 by Akiva Goldsman (who scripted Batman Forever and Batman & Robin) and Andrew Kevin Walker (Sleepy Hollow).

Fans wondered for ages how the film could’ve turned out, and a copy of the script has surfaced on Scribd, and we’ve embedded it for you below.  Enter a world where Batman had a wife, Superman’s getting divorced, and the only solution? Hecka punching.

Source: Geek Tyrant