Batman Forever | Behind-The-Scenes

Even if you are not a fan of Batman Forever, you may find some of its behind-the-scenes secrets fascinating.

-Michael Keaton thought the Batman Forever script sucked. After Schumacher replaced Tim Burton as director, the Academy Award nominee told The Hollywood Reporter that he decided to leave for the following reason: The script sucked. The script never was good. I couldn’t understand why he wanted to do what he wanted to do... I knew it was in trouble when Schumacher said, ‘Why does everything have to be so dark?’

-The pairing of Two-Face and the Riddler proves to be a little dysfunctional at times in Batman Forever, which is nothing compared to the tension that was apparently going on between Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey behind the scenes. The comedic actor, who was just coming off a several-year stint in the In Living Color cast at the time, was on Norm MacDonald Live when he recalled how his Academy Award-winning co-star told him to his face that he hated him and couldn’t “sanction [his] buffoonery.” Director Joel Schumacher would later confirm this on-set tension as true to Vulture in 2019.

-Leonard DiCaprio Was Offered To Play Robin In Batman Forever.
According to a 2015 interview with IndieWire, the future Oscar winner (before hitting it big in the Titanic cast) had a meeting with Schumacher about the potential to play Robin. Of course, the role, instead, went to Chris O’Donnell, who turned out to be a bit of a troublemaker behind the scenes, too.

-During an interview with Groucho Reviews in 2008 to promote his role in the family film Kit Kitteridge: An American Girl, the NCIS: Los Angeles star revealed that he has been known to crash a few cars on sets, including the Batmobile, which he “never heard the end of.”
Source: Cinemablend

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