The Official Batman (1989) Thread - Part 5

[Tacit Ronin]

After hearing Ben's modulated voice in the new trailer, I think I still prefer Keaton's. It remains the best live action Bat voice.

 

[The Shape]

No argument there.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Strange... I'd still give Keaton the edge myself (so far).

Less is more.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Strange... I'd still give Keaton the edge myself (so far).

Less is more.

What's strange?

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Somebody sharing my opinion. It's a rarity.

 

[Sawyer]

Strange... I'd still give Keaton the edge myself (so far).

Less is more.

Well, in fairness, no one playing Batman put in less effort than George Clooney and that didn't turn out well.

 

[TMC1982]

According to Bob Ringwood, the costume designer via Facebook, he didn't enjoy working w/ Kim Basinger too much:

Horrible woman….such bad behaviour when we made Batman.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

I am so far not impressed with how they've modulated Ben's voice to the extent they have, I mean a little effect wouldn't be horrible but he sounds almost robotic and extremely unnatural. I don't think anything will ever beat Keaton's Batman voice for me.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

According to Bob Ringwood, the costume designer via Facebook, he didn't enjoy working w/ Kim Basinger too much:

I think I read somewhere that Nicholson wasn't too fond of her either... claiming she snagged the role last minute becuase of her relationship with Jon Peters.

 

[Rodrigo90]

"Tell that guy whose **** your *******, he's an *******" Jack to Kim

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

I've heard plenty of rumors that Basinger had her hand under the table to get that role, I don't doubt it one bit. Regardless of the complaints I still adore her in the film.

 

[Rodrigo90]

Here here.

 

[TMC1982]

I've heard plenty of rumors that Basinger had her hand under the table to get that role, I don't doubt it one bit. Regardless of the complaints I still adore her in the film.

Bob Ringwood added:

I didn't hate working with KB…she just behaved in the most unprofessional and disgraceful manor….more than any other actor in my 45 year career…….actually we did start work with Sean Young and had completed all her clothes for the film and she was a pleasure to work with…unfortunately she had a riding accident and had to withdraw….

This isn't the only time that Kim Basinger has been accused of being "difficult":

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...nger-nobodys-fool-19860213?page=2&h=gAQFzxUhU
At the end of five years in New York, Basinger — sick of modeling and depressed — loaded her jeep and moved to L.A. to launch herself in movies. After two television movies and two features — Hard Country, with Jan-Michael Vincent, and Mother Lode, with Charlton Heston, neither of which was widely distributed — she was hired for the role of Domino in Never Say Never Again. She hated the movie ("It was all about Bond"), and little love was lost between her and the director, Irvin Kershner. In a recent interview, she called him "mean." He retaliated by saying that "she has a problem that a lot of ex-models have, and that's paying too much attention to their looks." The man knew which button to push. "He zinged it to me like you wouldn't believe!" Basinger says. She's laughing, but she's angry, too. "They preface everything with 'ex-model.' I don't even know what the hell that means. 'Cause they could just as easily put 'plumber' in there now, like 'plumber-actress.' Because I'm not a model anymore. It drives me mad."

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...chive/article/0,,20114944,00.html&h=NAQHv1ZI9

Basinger also is known as excitable and outspoken. The actress was pegged as late to work and difficult in 1988's My Step-mother Is an Alien and admitted in Cosmopolitan that she had tried cocaine and that "I love men. And I love sex." Following her eight-year marriage to makeup man Ron Britton, which ended in 1989, Basinger was rumored to have had an intense romance with rock star Prince. After she took up with Baldwin last spring, she shared Thanksgiving dinner with him and saw him on the set of her new film, The Cool World, costarring Gabriel Byrne.

And of course, Kim's alleged behavior on the set of The Marrying Man is "legendary" within itself!

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

Yup, sounds about right.

 

[Elevator Man]

Nancy Allen also described Irvin Kershner as "mean" while working with him on RoboCop 2. So there might be some truth to that.

And LOL at Ringwood admitting Sean Young was a pleasure to work with. A lot of male celebrities she has worked with complained that she's a diva and very unprofessional. Harrison Ford didn't enjoy working with her on Blade Runner.

 

[Sawyer]

Yeah, I have a very hard time believing that Sean Young is more pleasant to be around than Basinger.

 

[TMC1982]

Nancy Allen also described Irvin Kershner as "mean" while working with him on RoboCop 2. So there might be some truth to that.

And LOL at Ringwood admitting Sean Young was a pleasure to work with. A lot of male celebrities she has worked with complained that she's a diva and very unprofessional. Harrison Ford didn't enjoy working with her on Blade Runner.

There's this scene in Blade Runner where Harrison Ford slams Sean Young against the wall and Sean starts tearing up. Apparently, Harrison was so pissed off w/ Sean that he intentionally tried to hurt her. Sean's tears were real and weren't in the script.

 

[TMC1982]

Yup, sounds about right.

I don't entirely know for sure how consistently professional or unprofessional Kim Basinger has been in her career, but I will contend that despite being one of the most beautiful women in the history of the world, she can be slightly eccentric and insecure (she has struggled w/ social anxiety issues for most of her life) to put things nicely. I mean this is a woman who once bankrupted herself after purchasing a town in her home state of Georgia. And don't forget that wacky looking, Prince-influenced dress that she wore at the 1990 Oscars (where Kim complained on stage about snubbing Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing). And she also played a corpse in a Tom Petty video (which ironically, was probably her best performance ever, even more so than her Oscar winning one from LA Confidential).

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

Her performance in LA Confidential which is one of my favorite films, is the absolute best of her career no contest.

 

[Lantern Venom]

I have a question for anyone who has the anthology DVDs or Blu-rays. I had the '89 movie adaptation comic back then, and I seem to remember a panel that differed from the film. In the comic, the money that the Joker dumped on the crowd was revealed to have his own face on it, which offered a payoff to the line "my face on the one dollar bill."

Does anyone else remember this? Are there any extras that show this version of the money?

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

There are no extras on the DVD or Blu-ray boxset that show or explain that at all.

 

[Lantern Venom]

There are no extras on the DVD or Blu-ray boxset that show or explain that at all.

I've always wondered if this was part of the original idea for the Joker's plan or if this was a new twist that the comic writers added.

 

[batfreakforever]

There are heaps in the movie adaption that are not in the film. Like finding Knox laying under the bat cape and cowl with Bruce walking away with his belt over his shoulder.

 

[Rodrigo90]

I love how Batman can see exactly what they're doing in that panel, being so high up and moving so fast

 

[Rodrigo90]

Right, so I was watching Batman Returns over Xmas and this lead to me watching Batman 1989 and, like many of us, it lead to me wondering the fate of Keaton's Batman/Bruce Wayne.
Then, it inspired me on a project I want to work on, which I'm writing up this moment.

A third Batman, utilising the characters and world Burton set up, 20 years into the future.
I've been studying up and drawing from the scripts written by Hamm and Waters, and I'm working in their style of storytelling.

I haven't got the villain pegged yet, because I'm just working on the fundamentals of the first act.
However, it starts with a young man entering Gotham via train. He's been given a letter, telling him to travel to Gotham for the truth.
I'll be using the flashback technique to tell this portion of the story: The young man's stepfather was murdered when he was young, and most recently, his mother passed away from an illness. She reveals in her letter to him where to find his real father. You can probably see where I'm going with this... The young man, his mother was Vicki Vale (I'd imagine a Kim Basinger cameo) and this reveals to us why she really left Bruce after the 1989 movie - she didn't want her child living under the Batman's shadow.
Bruce, himself, is no longer "Bruce Wayne"... Alfred ia dead and Wayne Manor lies in abandoned tatters. Bruce Wayne, the mysterious public figure disappeared long ago, and only the "Batman" remains, where, now, his primary residence is in the Batcave... and he's stacked up on mountains of food to last last him til his dying day, so no Alfred-shopping required.
I'm keeping it in the vain of the Burton character. It's not where I'd imagine THE Batman from the comics being, but Burton's Batman.
The story is mainly about a father and son meeting for the first time, and the son's only last remaining family member, who he is truly intrigued by, is still the ultimate loner, who now sees himself only as a creature of the night and nothing else...
And as the son graduates towards to becoming the bat, the bat graduates back to his own humanity that will make him the father the kid so desperately desires...

I'll be posting a few pages up soon for you guys to read and see what you think, perhaps give me a few ideas as to who the villian should be