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Batman Forever: Directed by Joel Schumacher. With Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman. Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.
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- Joel Schumacher
- 1995-06-16
Box office. $336.6 million [4] Batman Forever is a 1995 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. [a] It is the third installment of Warner Bros. ' initial Batman film series and a sequel to Batman Returns (1992). Directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton and Peter MacGregor-Scott ...
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The Rise of Two-Face
The movie opens as Two-Face, the former DA Harvey Dent (Tommy Lee Jones), holds a hostage in a bank vault. Batman (Val Kilmer) arrives at the scene, consulting with Dr. Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman), who becomes enamored with the vigilante. Batman rescues the hostage, but is unable to foil the robbery. While this is going on, Edward Nygma (Jim Carrey), a lowly worker at Wayne Enterprises, is doing unauthorized research at work. He has invented an item that manipulates people's brainwaves and...
The Riddles
A while later, Bruce receives a second riddle at Wayne Manor and consults Dr. Meridian, who establishes that whoever is leaving the riddles is a "wacko" who is obsessed with Bruce. After this, Bruce invites her to the Charity Circus at the Hippodrome. Two-Face and his thugs arrive at the event, firing guns and terrorizing the audience. They also bring a bomb that Two-Face will detonate if Batman does not reveal his identity at the circus (Two-Face blames Batman for failing to thwart a crimina...
The Riddler
Meanwhile, Edward Nygma, inspired and delighted by watching Two-Face's raid at the circus, decides to become a villain himself, the Riddler. He proceeds to show Two-Face his invention from Wayne Enterprises in his river bridge lair. The two villains make a deal: if Two-Face helps him steal enough priceless goods and money to fund his project, the Riddler will use "The Box" (his invention) to learn Batman's true identity by taping Bruce's brainwaves. Their deal sealed, Two-Face and the Riddler...
Val Kilmer as Batman/Bruce WayneTommy Lee Jones as Harvey Two-Face/Harvey DentJim Carrey as The Riddler/Edward NygmaNicole Kidman as Dr. Chase MeridianDevelopment
While the previous two films had been directed by Tim Burton, Batman Forever was directed by Joel Schumacher, who made changes to the established designs and thematics of the first two films. According to an interview with Janet Scott Batchler, Tim Burton's only involvement with Batman Forever was approving Joel Schumacher as director and Lee and Janet Scott Batchler as the writers. Burton did not contribute story ideas and by the time the Batchlers signed on, Schumacher already had hired Tom...
Filming
Val Kilmer and Joel Schumacher clashed during filming. Schumacher described Kilmer as "childish and impossible". According to Schumacher, Kilmer refused to talk to him for two weeks. Reportedly, Kilmer was so angered at one point he tore one of the cowls off his head, which upset the costume department due to cost. Schumacher also said that Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones had problems with each other on set. Jones was not friendly to Carrey, telling him once off-set during the production, "I h...
Posters
John Alvin returned to design the one-sheets, this time based on the wardrobe photography of Herb Ritts. The character poster series concept from Batman Returnswas used once again, also proving very popular.
Music videos
Hit singles from the soundtrack include "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" by U2 and "Kiss From a Rose" by Seal, both of which were nominated for MTV Movie Awards. "Kiss From a Rose" (whose video was also directed by Joel Schumacher) reached #1 in the U.S. charts as well. The soundtrack itself, featuring additional songs by The Flaming Lips, Brandy (both songs also included in the film), Method Man, Nick Cave, Michael Hutchence (of INXS), PJ Harvey, and Massive Attack, was an attempt to (...
Press tour
Schumacher appeared on the Charlie Roseshow and was confronted by early criticisms of the film, as well as details regarding Michael Keaton's departure from the project.
Batman Forever obtained generally mixed reviews. Much of the negative reaction came from the drastic makeover of the franchise (most of it led by Joel Schumacher at the will of the Warner Bros. executives). Due to the fact that Batman Returns earned less than the original, Warner Bros. insisted the movie to be more "family friendly" to improve merc...
Psychology & Batman
Batman Forever was notably the first theatrically-released film in the Batman film franchise that attempted to explore the character's psychology more explicitly. Prior comic stories, like Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight and Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, also indicated these to an extent, though they remained subtext within their stories. The psychology of Batman's villains had also been explored in similar stories and many, including both Two-Face a...
Connection with Predecessors
It is fiercely debated whether Batman Forever and its successor, Batman & Robin, take place within the same continuity as Tim Burton's films, affectionally referred to as the "Burtonverse". Though they were intended follow on their events by both the director and WB, some argue that the films take place in their own universe and that it does not follow on story threads left from Batman Returns, such as Catwoman's fate. The primary arguments for the split derive from the recasting of Tommy Lee...
The film was first released on VHS and Laserdisc in October 1995. Batman Forever was given a "bare bones" DVD release when the medium was introduced in 1997-1998. However, in 2005 Batman Begins release incited Warner Brother Home Entertainment to release a Two-Disc Special Edition set of all four previous WB films in Batman: The Motion Picture Anth...
Batman Forever went through a few major edits after test screenings before its release. Originally the movie opened with Two-Face escaping from the asylum, showing aftermath of Two-Face's escape. The sequence of events was shifted to show Batman suiting up with immediacy, rather than making the audience wait. The workprint for test screenings was c...
Batman Forever is a 1995 action superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman, directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler, and Akiva Goldsman. The film stars Val Kilmer as Batman, Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face, Jim Carrey as the Riddler, Nicole Kidman as...
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Apr 8, 2023 · One-half of the film's villainous duo (joining forces with Carrey's Riddler) is veteran actor Tommy Lee Jones as Harvey Dent/Two-Face.
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Batman Forever is the 1995 sequel to Batman Returns and the third installment in the Burton/Schumacher Batman film series. Batman is up against Two-Face who is terrorising Gotham City and he gets all the more dangerous when he pairs up with a new menace, The Riddler and partners up with a young...
