Manusförfattare ber om ursäkt för Batman & Robin

Regissören Joel Schumacher har redan bett om ursäkt för den ordetnligt utskällda superhjältefloppen Batman & Robin och nu känner filmens manusförfattaren Akiva Goldsman också, som senare vann en Oscar för A Beautiful Mind, att han delar den skulden. I en intervju med Collider framgick det att det inte alls var meningen att filmen skulle bli som den blev och ber om ursäkt för röran:

"As for Batman & Robin, that one just confused me. I mean, we didn't mean for it to be bad. I swear, nobody was like, 'This will be bad.' We were really thinking... I mean, here's the irony: There was a reel that was put together halfway through [filming] where it actually looked dark in an interesting way. It just is what it is and I'm sorry. I think we're all sorry."

Det är inte lätt att göra film. Han förklarar nämligen att han ursprungligen hade fler idéer för Bruce Waynes eviga lidande, men att testpubliken inte nappade på den psykologiska aspekten:

"For me, Batman Forever was all about Bruce finding his father's journal and in it it said, 'Martha and I want to stay home tonight, but Bruce insists on going to see a movie,' and you discover it was all [Bruce], he's been holding on to the guilt all the way through about being responsible for his parents' deaths. None of that makes the cut because we shot it and we tested it, and the audience was not interested in the psychological component of the drama at that point. That was not what they were coming to comic book movies for."

Goldsman ser även fram emot Matt Reeves tolkning av Läderlappen:

"Matt Reeves, I think, is so insanely talented and I think Robert Pattinson is terrific. For me, the key to this is Matt. Have you ever seen the pilot of Felicity? Matt directed it, J.J. [Abrams] wrote it, and it hums in this extraordinary way. From then, I have admired Matt as a director. I just think he's literate, he's articulate emotionally, he's can cinematically virtuosic. For me, I can't wait to see [The Batman]."

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