![]() said ‘Come into my office, you are going to play Batman in a Batman film’ and I said ‘Yeah!’ I called my friends and they screamed and I screamed and we couldn’t believe it!” “The truth is, my phone rang, and the head of Warner Bros. “With hindsight it’s easy to look back at this and go, ‘Woah, that was really shit and I was really bad in it,’” Clooney said in 2011. More recently, Clooney has softened his stance on the role, acknowledging the film was the biggest break of his career. But who can blame him? Batman & Robin was reviled by fans and critics alike and continues to be mocked to this day. Clooney called the film and those like it “a waste of money” in 2002. No man to wear the batsuit has repudiated it quite like George Clooney. George Clooney (‘Batman & Robin,’ 1997).The movie was based on the '90s Batman: The Animated Series. The 1993 animated film, directed by Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm, was voiced by Kevin Conroy as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Dana Delany as Andrea Beaumon and Hart Bochner as Arthur Reeves. Image Credit: Photo Credit: Courtesy of Everett Collection Val Kilmer at ‘Batman Forever’ premiere a still from the movie. Full of onomatopoeia and kitschy catch phrases, the show - and West - remain in the cultural lexicon more than 40 years after the ABC series ended. Adam West (‘Batman’ TV Series, 1966-68)Īdam West and his TV show’s campy vision of the caped crusader made an indelible impact on the pop culture psyche.The discussion from the get-go was to do a hero that was based in the psychological.” “The movie was different from what had come before. “The coolest thing from the get-go is that he doesn’t have superpowers, there are no magical things,” Keaton said of the character in a 2011 interview. Michael Keaton’s take on the hero was considered dark and brooding at the time, though Tim Burton recently called his Batman films downright cheery compared to the Christopher Nolan trilogy. Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images/IMDB Michael Keaton (‘Batman,’ ‘Batman Returns,’ 1989-92).Carrol Naish), who was attempting to turn the U.S. Instead of battling familiar baddies from the comics, Wilson's Batman fought a villainous Japanese spy ( J. Lewis Wilson was the first actor to star as Batman in the 1943, 15-chapter serial Batman. Image Credit: Photo Credit: Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection
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