Within the relatively short span of three years, which marked the distance between Batman Returns and Batman Forever, the series not only underwent a facelift, but had a full-on reboot before the word even existed in Hollywood lexicon. Nevertheless, the hue of Batman’s signal in the sky experienced substantial and immediate changes.
It also grossed an undeniably profitable $266 million in worldwide box office receipts. That movie was a saturating force in pop culture as well, appearing on lunchboxes, backpacks, and, of course, McDonald’s Happy Meals. fast-tracked a sequel ( putting Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian on permanent vacation), and the dream team of Tim Burton and Michael Keaton were back for more with 1992’s Batman Returns.
It out-grossed Ghostbusters II and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade that summer, and went on to be the highest grossing film of all-time up to that point with over $400 million worldwide. As the film that buried the Adam West image of the Caped Crusader, Batman proved to a global audience that the story of Bruce Wayne could be one filled with brooding trauma and fanciful daydreams that crept into our nightmares. Batman was more than a hit movie in 1989 it was a pop culture phenomenon that could be felt on every T-shirt, poster, and trading card being hawked that summer. This seemed especially true for Batman.īut if Donner made people believe a man could fly, Burton made them believe he could also be psychotic enough to dress up like a bat and beat up crazed clowns. Prior to their DC epics, the form was largely viewed by the mainstream as stuff meant to distract the little ones and shut-ins.
Nowadays with no shortage of superhero movies being released each year, it’s easy to take for granted what filmmakers like Richard Donner and Tim Burton did for the superhero genre.
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