Batman Movies Director Joel Schumacher Dies

Joel Schumacher, the director of Batman Forever and Batman & Robin among many other films, died on Monday. He was 80. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Schumacher died after a year-long battle with cancer. In addition to those two divisive Batman movies, Schumacher's many directing credits include Falling Down, The Lost Boys, Flatliners, St. Elmo's Fire, A Time to Kill, Dying Young, D.C. Cab, 8MM, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, The Number 23, Veronica Guerin, Tigerland, Phone Booth, Trespass, and The Phantom of the Opera. New York native Schumacher began his career as a costume designer and screenwriter before segueing to the director's chair. Schumacher was integral to helping launch the screen stardom of the Brat Pack and other young stars thanks to St. Elmo's Fire and The Lost Boys, and his film The Client discovered the late Brad Renfro. Although widely derided, Schumacher's Batman movies brought a new and more colorful visual aesthetic and campy vibe to the franchise following the first two films directed by Tim Burton. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=batman-forever&captions=true"] After Michael Keaton passed on returning for a third Bat-film, Schumacher cast Val Kilmer as the Caped Crusader. Schumacher and Kilmer had a famously bad time making the movie and after Kilmer opted not to return for another entry, Schumacher cast George Clooney as the new lead in Batman & Robin. Batman & Robin, near universally deemed the nadir of the Batman movie franchise, stopped the series in its tracks until Christopher Nolan rebooted it in 2005.

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