Batman Returns is my favorite Batman movie… and you know why 😉
The two Tim Burton Batman movies are really very special to me and I love “Batman & Robin” for one reason as well (starts with “Bat” and ends with “girl”).
I stumbled upon some videos about certain aspects of these early movies and what could have been… if some other decisions would have been made back in the day.
Here is the first one (not my video or upload):
Fascinating!
The fact that McDonalds promoted “Batman Returns” with toys in Happy Meals is just hilarious.
The movie is awesome… but definitely not made for kids.
Seemingly WarnerBrothers and McDonalds were surprised by that?!? 😆
Sadly the movie didn’t make as much money as they hoped and the plan with a Catwoman Spin-off movie was never greenlighted.
But we got the Halle Barry Catwoman flick instead… oh my god! 🙁
That is the real tragedy here.
Imagine a movie with Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman as the main character! I might sell my soul for that…
But the quest for toy sales for those damn kids ruined that… and the two toy commercial movies with Schumacher followed.
Even I always will defend “Batman & Robin” as some minutes of Batgirl in that costume just made it so remarkable for me.
And the fact that “Batman Forever” made more money than “Batman Returns”…. is just insane when you compare the quality of the movies.
All the damn kids were allowed to watch “Batman Forever”… the money that “Batman Returns” missed to get.
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So, what might have happened if Joel Schumacher had made a third Batman movie?
Verrrry interesting!
A darker movie with that storyline… yeah, would have been interesting to watch for sure, especially with Catwoman appearing again, even if it seemingly would have been just a hallucination.
Scarecrow and Harley as the villains, and hating Bruce Wayne and one hating Batman… yeah, sounds like a good idea!
But yeah, it would have been quite difficult and expensive… to have made that one.
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An alternative script for Batman Returns:
Hmh, yeah… these Catwoman scenes could have been awesome as well!
There are basically two Catwoman aspects that I don’t like in “Batman Returns”:
– The fact that she is a secretary who then goes on to have her revenge on her boss (instead of being a master-class thief)
– And that Selina and Bruce learn each other secret identities by re-phrasing that one dialogue that had as Catwoman and Batman.
These two aspects could have been improved for sure with a different script.
But it’s really hard to tell if that script would have made a(n even) better movie.
We will never know…
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