

We've got Jim Carrey, let him do some s-t."įollowing director Tim Burton's gothic take on the Caped Crusader in both Batman and Batman Returns, the theatrical cut of Batman Forever takes things back to the campy silliness of the 1960s television series. 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 Schumacher 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," Bernadin said.

"I have it on pretty good authority that there exists in the Warner Bros. The surprising news regarding the existence of a so-called Schumacher Cut of Batman Forever was revealed by writer and podcaster Marc Bernardin back in July. Chase Meridian, Chris O'Donnell as Dick Grayson / Robin, Michael Gough as Alfred Pennyworth, and Pat Hingle as James Gordon. The Riddler teams up with Two-Face to bring down Batman, leading Batman to form an alliance of his own.īatman Forever stars Tommy Lee Jones as Harvey Dent / Two-Face, Jim Carrey as Edward Nygma / The Riddler, Nicole Kidman as Dr. While battling his own inner demons he finds himself up against two merciless villains, Two-Face, a former district attorney driven insane and turned into a master criminal after acid is thrown in his face, and Wayne Enterprises employee Edward Nygma, who reacts badly to getting fired and uses his self-invented mind-energy device to transform into the super-intelligent Riddler. Released in 1995, Batman Forever follows Val Kilmer in his first and only appearance as Batman/Bruce Wayne, as he ponders strange dreams about his parents' death.
