Batman and Robin
From batsuit tit to endless ice puns , Screen Rant ’s Ryan George takes us behind the scenes of what ( in all probability ) happened in thepitch meetingfor Joel Schumacher ’s 1997 superhero movieBatman & Robin .
Before Batman moving-picture show took a hard right-hand turn into the realm of grim and gritty withChristopher Nolan’sDark Knighttrilogy , they had veer off to the other end of the spectrum . The movie franchise that had start with Tim Burton ’s grim and edgy ( for the time)Batmanin 1989 , and continued in Burton ’s sequelBatman Returns , saw a radical shift in tone when director Joel Schumacher need over for the third movie , Batman Forever . Michael Keaton was out as Bruce Wayne , put back by Val Kilmer , and now he had his trusty buddy Robin ( played by Chris O’Donnell ) . That picture show proved to be a loge part hit , and that ’s how we cease up with the sequel : Batman & Robin .
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Though O’Donnell stuck around , Batman was recast again with George Clooney donning the at-bat - ears , and Alicia Silverstone also join the squad as Batgirl . On the villain side of affair wasArnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze , Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy , and matman Jeep Swenson as Bane . Mr. Freeze block thing using a infield , Poison Ivy apply her plant - based powers to make Batman and Robin into fighting over her , and nothing really make any sense .
in the main see one of the worst superhero movies ever made , Batman & RobinkilledWarner Bros. ' first Batman motion picture franchisein its rail and threw the character into limbo for almost a decade while the studio tried to calculate out what to do with him . Now that the initial buff disgust is a upstage memory , however , Batman & Robinhas come to be remembered almost fondly as a so - bad - it’s - good cheesy classic . As terrible as it was , after all , it sure enough left its mark with gloriously awful lines like Mr. Freeze ’s , " What killed the dinosaurs ? The shabu eld ! " and minute like Batman whipping out his bat - credit calling card .
Even if those gilt minute are n’t enough to win you over , it ’s deserving keeping in mind that withoutBatman & Robinkilling off the Schumacher era of Batman movies , Warner Bros. may never have turned to up - and - coming filmmaker Christopher Nolan for a fresh take on the character , and we may never have get theDark Knighttrilogy . That ’s the cricket bat - roundabout of life .
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