He did the nipples and when I looked at them, I thought, 'That's cool.''Įven though people still used dial-up or hoarded AOL discs to connect to the internet when Batman flashed his rubber areolas, Bat Nipple-gate still went viral in a pre-social media age. So I said, 'Let's make it anatomical' and I gave photos of Greek statues and those incredible anatomical drawings you see in medical books. Rubber molding had become so much more advanced. 'By the time we got to Batman Forever, the rubber techniques had gotten so sophisticated.

' was made by Jose Fernandez, who was our brilliant lead ,' Schumacher explained. 'I just know that I'll always go down over the nipples on Batman, starting with Batman Forever.' 'It was like I had murdered a baby,' Schumacher told Vice in 2017 in an interview where he revisited both Forever and its much-maligned 1997 sequel, Batman & Robin. The fact that such a small design choice garnered such a visceral reaction from fandom is not lost on the director that signed off on it. This week marks the film's 25th anniversary, and those infamous Bat Nipples still invoke eye-rolls a quarter-century later. While the movie was a considerable hit, it also came with a problem of its own: nipples on the batsuit. Batman (newcomer Val Kilmer) took on villains Riddler (Jim Carrey) and Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) - with help from Robin (Chris O'Donnell) - in a much more toy-friendly story.

Schumacher's solution was Batman Forever, a summer blockbuster that over-corrected for Burton's black-on-black style with its bright, neon-everything visuals.

movie, The Client, to save The Dark Knight. The studio turned to director Joel Schumacher, who was fresh off another successful Warner Bros. felt their biggest movie franchise at the time needed a drastic creative and aesthetic course correction. Still licking its wounds from the negative fallout from Tim Burton's bleak and non-kid-friendly 1992 summer movie, Batman Returns, Warner Bros.

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