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7 Times Auteurs Took On Superhero Movies

WGTC looks back at 7 times that auteurs took on superhero movies, with some of the results being successful and some not so much.
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7) Tim Burton – Batman, Batman Returns

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It’s been a long time since Tim Burton made a genuinely great, or even good film (animation aside). Still, that doesn’t mean the director isn’t a fully-fledged auteur; if anything, he has a more instantly recognizable style than the vast majority of Hollywood filmmakers working today. If it’s dark, gloomy, a little bit OTT, and home to some oddball characters, chances are it’s a Tim Burton film.

And those are exactly the characteristics Burton brought to his two Batman outings some two-plus decades ago. Batman and Batman Returns aren’t just a case of filmmaker perfectly matching the material, though – Burton pushed the gothic nature of the darker Batman comics even further, whilst allowing a touch of the old pop-art Adam West Batman series to seep into the style.

Plus, he brought his Beetlejuice actor Michael Keaton over with him to play Bruce Wayne – who else would think to go for such a bold, unusual choice?


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