Empire Magazine, the Oscar nominee recalled being told the film was “too dark” three decades ago. Now, looking at Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” makes him “laugh a little bit,” Burton said.“[Back then] they went the other way.
That’s the funny thing about it,” Burton said about the iconic movies. “But then I was like, ‘Wait a minute. Okay. 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–k yourself.’”Burton, known for his eerily dark films, vowed to never direct another Batman film after the 1992 piece of cinema.
But following his adaptation of the infamous DC Comic hero, Joel Schumacher’s nipple-enhanced 1995 “Batman Forever” took a more colorful turn.“I’m not just overly dark.
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