It seemed Burton’s style was too dark, and it deterred younger children from seeing (or liking) Batman Returns.

decided to go in a different, more “kid friendly” direction in order to sell more merchandise. But after a less-than-stellar box office return for Batman Returns, the executives at Warner Bros. Burton went against the grain and rejected the camp and overall cheesiness of the previous iterations.

They were dark, dreary, and somewhat claustrophobic. The live-action Batman series originally kicked off with Tim Burton ( Beetle Juice) directing the first two features Batman(1989) and Batman Returns (1992). We’ve got Jim Carrey, let him do some s–t.” We gotta sell these Happy Meals, so maybe let’s not invest ourselves in the trauma of childhood murder.

“I think that it went much deeper into his childhood psychosis and his mental blocks and that it was a more serious, darker version of that movie that was one of the first assemblies that Joel filed with the studio and they eventually cut it down because they were like ‘it’s too dark for kids. vault a 170-minute cut of Batman Forever,” Marc Bernardin told his co-host Kevin Smith. “I have it on pretty good authority that there exists in the Warner Bros.

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