Over the weekend, Batman: The Dark Knight smashed every box-office record imaginable. In total, eight records were broken, including:

1 - LARGEST NUMBER OF OPENING THEATRES WITH 4,366
2 - BIGGEST MIDNIGHT PREVIEW GROSS WITH $18.489 MILLION IN 3,040 THEATRES
3 - BIGGEST IMAX MIDNIGHT PREVIEWS SET AN NEW RECORD WITH $640,000
4 - BIGGEST SINGLE-DAY GROSS IN BOX-OFFICE HISTORY WITH $67.850 MILLION
5 - BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND GROSS IN BOX OFFICE HISTORY WITH $155.340 MILLION
6 - BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND GROSS FOR AN IMAX RELEASE IN BOX OFFICE HISTORY WITH $6,214,061 MILLION IN 94 THEATRES WITH $66,107 PER THEATRE.
7 - BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND OF 2008 WITH $151.340
8 - BIGGEST JULY OPENING EVER

(Data courtesy of deadlinehollywooddaily.com)

While that’s all fine and dandy, The Dark Knight was sorely missing one thing: Michael Bay.

That’s right – Michael “The More Explosions, The Better” Bay.

Apparently, Mr. Bay worked on a script for The Dark Knight that Warner ended up chucking into the trash. Thankfully, the fine folks over at Spill uncovered it and posted it for all the world to see.

Click the thumbnail below to view an excerpt of Bay's ill-fated masterpiece:

Check out the rest of the totally-real-and-not-fake script here.