Tim Burton Blasts WB for Infamous ‘Batman Forever’ Batsuit: ‘I’m Too Weird and Then You Put Nipples on the Costume? Go F– Yourself’
thewrap.comSpeaking to Empire on the anniversary, Burton said: “[Back then] they went the other way. That’s the funny thing about it. 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— yourself.’ Seriously.
So yeah, I think that’s why I didn’t end up [doing a third film]…”In the same conversation, Burton marveled at how his vision for the character, initially deemed too dark, has given way to even darker incarnations in both Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy and the recently released “The Batman” from director Matt Reeves (which Burton admitted he hasn’t watched yet). “It is funny to see this now, because all these memories come back of, ‘It’s too dark’,” he told Empire. “So, it makes me laugh a little bit.”Burton tells a funny story on the “Batman Returns” Blu-ray release, about how after the movie opened he went to Warner Bros.
with ideas about a third movie. (Supposedly there was a version of “Batman Returns” where the Christopher Walken character was actually Billy Dee Williams’ Harvey Dent from the first movie.
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