Reviews were far less kind, and on-set relationships was somewhat troubled, with Tommy Lee Jones (Two-Face) telling Jim Carrey (The Riddler), “ I cannot sanction your buffoonery,” and Schumacher calling Kilmer “ childish and impossible.” That film made a perfectly healthy $184 million in 1995-but that was far less than Batman, which had grossed $250 million six years earlier. The warning signs were already there with Batman Forever, Schumacher’s first go-round with the Caped Crusader, which starred a new actor (Val Kilmer) and embraced a broader, more kid-friendly storytelling approach than Tim Burton’s two attempts.
But Batman & Robin’s biggest impact was changing how Hollywood approached superhero movies as a whole-it proved such films couldn’t be assembled with the ease of any other Hollywood action picture, and that the genre was not as “critic-proof” as once thought. For the movie’s 20th anniversary, The Hollywood Reporter has assembled a terrific oral history of its tortured production, including some typically self-effacing quotes from Schumacher (who has never been afraid to acknowledge what went right and wrong with the film). Many an appreciation of Joel Schumacher’s second Batman film, starring George Clooney, Uma Thurman, 100 metric tons of neon lighting, and 2,000 fog machines, has been written over the years. A spinoff focused on sidekick Robin (Chris O’Donnell) was on the books. A follow-up, Batman Unchained, was already in development. franchise that had begun in 1989 with Batman, which starred one of the most expensive movie stars alive (Arnold Schwarzenegger, paid a handsome $25 million for his trouble). Batman & Robin was supposed to be one of the biggest tentpoles of the summer: It was the continuation of an enormously successful Warner Bros. This may sound unfathomable to younger moviegoers, but 20 years ago today, the superhero film died a seemingly irreversible death.
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