Batman Forever (Movie)

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Title

Batman Forever

Aliases

Batman Forever

Universe

Burtonverse

Movie Details

Directors

Joel Schumacher

Producers

Tim Burton; Michael Uslan; Peter Macgregor-Scott; Benjamin Melniker

Writers

Lee Scott-Batchler, Janet Scott-Batchler, Akiva Goldsman

Musicians

Elliot Goldenthal

Cinematographers

Stephne Goldblatt

Editors

Dennis Virkler; Mark Stephens

Running Time

122 min.

Release Date

June 26th, 1995

Previous Movie

Next Movie

Batman Returns

Batman and Robin

Appearances

Featured Characters:

• Batman

Supporting Characters:

• Chase Meridian
• Robin

Villains:

• Riddler
• Two-Face

Other Characters:

Locations:

• Gotham City

Items:

Vehicles:

Plot

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Cast

The cast of this Movie are unknown.

Notes

• Shot between mid-late 1994 and early 1995.

• Release date: June 1995 (North America).
  

Trivia

• This movie saw a complete facelift. The producers wanted to base this film on the Batman comics of the 1940's and early 50's. Batman Forever had a new director in Schumacher with a new colorful and vibrant look and feel that was a complete turn-around from Tim Burton's darker look and the was a new composer in Elliot Goldenthal who wrote a new theme for the Batman.

• There were a group of scenes that were cut from the movie that would have explained why Bruce Wayne chose to retire (and then un-retire) Batman. These included a scene where Bruce catches an tv editorial where the reporter says he believes that Batman is the cause of Gotham's problems and that he should leave.
  The other scene would have shownBruce returning to the cave where he fell many years ago, only to find his father's journal on the ground. He then would read a passage from the journal implying that Bruce indirectly caused his parent's murders by wanting to go to the movie theater that night. Then, a giant bat would come flying out of the darkness at Bruce and stop in front of him. This would somehow remind him that he is still Batman.
  These scenes are preserved on the recent two disc DVD set.

• Michael Keaton was ready to step into the batsuit once more for this movie, but after Tim Burton left the project, he didn't like how the story was going and followed him.

• Joel Schumacher was a big fan of Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns and Year One and wanted to make this movie an adaptation of the latter story.
  But, Warner Bros. declined his proposal.

• Controversy erupted early on about the fact that Batman and Robin would have "nipples" and codpieces on their costumes. Schumacher said that he viewed the suits as sculptures and sighted that superheroes are typically drawn with incredible physiques, so it seemed normal to include nipples.

• Ewan McGregor, Jude Law, Christian Bale and Alan Cumming all auditioned for the part of Robin.
  Ironically, two of them would go on to play much bigger characters as Bale would become the Caped Crusader in Batman Begins and McGregor would be cast as the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the second Star Wars trilogy.
  Cumming would go on to play Marvel character Nightcrawler in X-Men 2: X-Men United

• Drew Barrymore played Sugar, one of Two-Face's girlfriends.

• Robin Williams was approached to play the Riddler, but Williams turned them down. Fortunatly, the producers grabbed a rising star in Jim Carrey, who had just come off Ace Ventura and had just finished shooting The Mask and Dumb and Dumber.

• There are rumors that both Val Kilmer and Tommy Lee Jones (especially Jones) did not get along well with Jim Carrey behind the scenes and that Kilmer and Joel Schumacher did not work well together.
  Kilmer denies the Carrey rumor (at least his half of it), saying that he did like Jim Carrey.
  The Carrey-Jones rumor has quieted down recently.

• The slanted camera angles in the movie might be a tribute to the same style used in the Adam West Batman T.V. series, where the Villans were usually shot at a jaunted angle, to suggest that they (like the shot) were crooked.

• Joel Schumacher actually consulted with his then-young Godson about who would be a good pick for villans in the movie. Likewise, Tommy Lee Jones was not familiar with the Two-Face character, but his son was and encouraged him to take the part.

• The soundtrack boasted two big songs.
  One of them was U2's Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me and the other was Seal's major hit single Kiss from a Rose.
  The video for Seal's song featured the singer standing in front of the famous Bat Signal and was intercut with clips from the movie.

See Also

• Characters from Batman Forever (Movie)
• Other things related to Batman Forever (Movie)
• Movie Gallery: Batman Forever (Movie)

Links and References

• "Batman Forever: Two Disc Special Edition" DVD (2005)