Three decades after its release, Val Kilmer and Joel Schumacher's sequel remains a stylistic detour that dared to show Gotham ...

Photo by Warner Bros. Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via The comic book movie world is lousy with director’s cuts. There ...

Batman Forever ... in media res opening of Harvey stealing the bank vault. Bruce Wayne vs. The Bat Another scene gives us a glimpse at a whole subplot removed from Batman Forever.

The original opening ... that the darker tone of Burton’s Bat-films wasn’t thrown out wholesale until the edit. Shades of it still existed in the original script for Batman Forever, and ...

and a darker look at Gotham’s neon-soaked past. Something Bat-fans have waited nearly three decades for is finally happening: the long-whispered Schumacher Cut of Batman Forever is getting a ...

It also had a darker edit to the film that has yet to be officially released. Batman Forever writer and Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman wants that edit of the film to have an official release ...

Moreover, the film came out during a time when superhero movies were becoming more mainstream but had yet to achieve the darker, grittier tones of today’s blockbusters. Batman Forever was part ...

Has Kevin Smith seen the Batman Forever Schumacher Cut ... that he had already watched it and that it includes an alternate opening. He also revealed that he wants to review the film with ...

During a 1996 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Batman ... darker, more violent version seen in later films, Kilmer’s Batman was conflicted, vulnerable, and emotionally complex. In Batman ...

That film, “Batman Forever,” couldn’t be a more representative ... It was also a box-office smash. It broke an opening-weekend record and eventually brought in more than $336 million ...