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As a child, I loved Batman after being glued to the animated series, but at the same time, I had the unfortunate experiences of sitting through two of the shittest adaptations of Batman on screen ever.
Batman Forever was the first time I saw Batman come to life as I was much too young to watch Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman Forever starring Michael Keaton.
Keaton, it turned out as I was getting older, was supposed to have returned to the role for this third film, but it never happened. Step in Val Kilmer, who was passable as The Dark Knight, but he was no Keaton.
Burton also stepped down from helming the film, so step in Joel Schumacher to the directing chair and enter a new phase in Batman’s cinematic life, the utterly silly and shit phase that nearly destroyed the character (ironical) forever.
Keaton spoke to The Hollywood Reporter to give some insight into why left the project and it was simple, the script “sucked”.
He clarified by adding “I can simplify it all for you, it sucked. The script was never good.
“I knew we were in trouble when he [Schumacher] said, ‘Why does everything have to be so dark?”
“Okay, well, he witnessed the death of his parents” replied Keaton.
“But physically it had to be brightened up too [according to Schumacher].
“If Tim (Burton) had said, ‘I want to experiment with something’, I would have been way open to it because in this guy’s hands, who knows?” he added.
Keaton went on to sum it up rather beautifully “I just can’t do it. Not that I’m above it or an artist or anything… I just don’t think I could do it without blowing my brains out.”
We know the feeling Keaton, I wanted to do that after Batman & Robin and I was about eight when I saw that film.
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