Tim Burton’s Batman movies are some of the most beloved of his career. After the Nightmare Before Christmas visionary left the franchise, Batman got a suit with nipples. Here’s what Burton thought of that.
Tim Burton contrasted the nipples on the Batsuit to his ‘dark’ Batman Quick Batman history: Burton made two Batman films: Batman and Batman Returns . After the latter was deemed too dark, director Joel Schumacher was given control of the franchise and took it into family-friendly territory. During a 2022 interview with Empire , Burton looked back on the controversial tone of Batman Returns .
“It is funny to see this now, because all these memories come back of, ‘It’s too dark,'” he said. “So, it makes me laugh a little bit.” “I’m not just overly dark,” he added.
“That represents me in the sense that...
that’s how I see things. It’s not meant as pure darkness. There’s a mixture.
I feel really fondly about it because of the weird experiment that it felt like.” The Ed Wood director was not a fan of an infamous design choice. “[Back then] they went the other way.
That’s the funny thing about it. But then I was like, ‘Wait a minute. OK.
Hold on a second here. You complain about me, I’m too weird, I’m too dark, and then you put nipples on the costume? Go f*** yourself.’ Seriously.
So yeah, I think that’s why I didn’t end up [doing a third film].” Was there bigotry in the fan backlash to Joel Schumacher taking over from Tim Bur.