'Batman Forever': The Story Behind the Surprise Hit "Nobody Really Wanted" - Hollywood Reporter
Just four years earlier, Tim Burton had achieved what many thought impossible — launching a big-screen take on the Dark Knight that was both critically acclaimed and a commercial hit. Burton's Batman was not the campy version Adam West had popularized on TV in the 1960s. But Batman Returns , Burton ' s 1992 follow-up, left studio Warner Bros. While the film was successful, it fell $145 million short of the 1989 film's $411. 3 million global gross. Burton and the studio mutually agreed the director would step back and take a producing role for a third Batman film. Enter Joel Schumacher , a veteran director who would change the course of Batman's onscreen history more than anyone could have imagined (and not just with anatomically correct suits). With Michael Keaton later dropping out as Batman, Val Kilmer stepped into the cape and cowl as Bruce Wayne/Batman. When Batman Forever hit theaters 20 years ago on June 16, 1995, it was colorful and splashy, like a comic book panel come to. Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
