David Goyer‘s new series, Da Vinci’s Demons, premiers tonight at 10pm ET on Starz.
Starz sent over the following info to get us excited for the big premiere as David Goyer also imagined Da Vinci with some striking similarities to Batman.
Da Vinci’s Demons follows the “untold” story of the world’s greatest genius during his turbulent youth in Renaissance Florence. Brilliant and passionate, the twenty-five year old Leonardo da Vinci (played by Tom Riley) is an artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist. The eight-part series is created and penned by David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Man of Steel), who also directed the first two episodes.
Similarities with Batman:
1. They both had traumatic experiences in caves
As a child Bruce Wayne fell into a cave-like well and was swarmed by bats, which left a lasting effect on him. Da Vinci’s writings also detail a horrific incident which happened to him in a cave when he was a child.
2. They were both inventors
