Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas received his Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations.
Original Cut Of Reviled ‘Batman Forever’ Was Reportedly 3 Hours Long And Much, Much Darker
etcanada.comDirector Joel Schumacher, who passed away last month at 80, was responsible for such Hollywood hits as Brat Pack classic “St.
Elmo’s Fire”, vampire thriller “The Lost Boys” and the dark, violent Michael Douglas drama “Falling Down”. He was also the director of arguably the two worst entries in the Batman franchise, the Val Kilmer-starring “Batman Forever” and its followup, “Batman and Robin”, with George Clooney as the Caped Crusader.
While Batman fans would prefer to forget both, Variety is reporting that Schumacher’s original vision for “Batman Forever” was far darker than what ended up on the screen — and far longer.
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