Director Joe Dante Looks Back On Why He Turned Down Batman!

intruder- so true. gremlins was alrite anyways, and never cared for it. nolan is and always will be the right director for batman

kyle- u right about nolan

Joe Dante's Bat-Mite:

Seriously...you don't believe in the Batman Mr. Dante. After working in the Corrections field for a while. The whole concept of Batman is more understandable than fuzzy puffballs that multiply in water and turn ugly after hitting the late night at taco bell. His loss, thanks Tim Burton for the memories.

i respect his choice. if you are unsure about something you should play it safe and not go through with it cause then you could have been like joel doing batman forever and batman and robin. gremlins was badass! then again people were also skeptical about tim burton doing batman and having micheal keaton play him which came out amazing.

What happens if you have a gremlin from New York, but you take it on vacation to L.A.? Does it have to stop eating at midnight in New York, or midnight in L.A.?

@DasBoot-That is one of the greatest mysteries of this century,next to where is Jimmy Hoffa and how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie pop. My question would be if you accidently got them wet with say oh... some Jack Daniels or mooshine what would be the result??? Also if you put sunblock on them would they still turn into goo. Just curious??

i would say i like both burton's and nolan's version of batman...they are relatively made for a set of audience in a particular period of time...SFX in the 90's is much more raw than what technology can do today...anyway, joe might made a batman that duplicates whenever bruce wet his pants...he doesn't believe in batman let him be..

@parascythe

Nolan's Batman is Not just made for a particular audience at a particular time. It's just great..

what is a "period"batman?i dont understand.

You've got to respect the guy for turning down what would have surely been a big high point of his career because he honestly didnt think he was the right guy for the job!

It would have been interesting to see his take on the character though and I wish he went into more detail here about the kind of movie it would have been...for me though, nobody can beat Christopher Nolan! :)

Burton's Batman movies were good but I'm not a fan of his art or directing style! To be honest, I'm just glad he never got the chance to direct Superman, lol!

Crying over spilled milk, eh? LOL!
Danny Elfman makes the best Batman soundtrack EVER!

Good one, Josh!

Nolan's gonna have to get back to a more Batman
Begins to make Batman fit back into comic book
land for Nolan's 3rd Batman. TDK is too reality-
based to work as Batman for the JLA movie.

I don't think Dante would have done such a well
drawn story as Batman Begins for a Batman movie.
I like Nolan's grittier take in "Begins".

TDK was not a true comic book movie. The Joker
was too much of a regular thug than a Super-
Villain, IMO.

But I still think Nolan can go back to a more
Superhero Batman in Batman 3 so that it fits
into the superhero mode of the JLA.

I think he would make a fine Superman and even
a good JLA movie. Or at least oversee both
movies.

The people working at Mcdonalds must hate their jobs......

hey, warner people... if you read this stuff, PLEASE don't listen to Mr. Rickly or the rest of the faithless! as i have stated [eloquently] in the past on other pages, a Batman reboot would be a terrible mistake! just like the marvelites are miserable abut the spider-boot, so would the rest of the world about ruining what the general moviegoing population would undoubtedly elect the best CBMs in history.

FIRST:
Nolan-man is a worldwide hit, not just a CBM fan fave. Along with, hopefully, GL, he will be the DRAW for a JL movie. People will go to see JLA EXPECTING the batman that nolan has made them fall in love with. If they toss a reboot out there to "lighten and brighten" the character simply to make him slide more easily into a 3D CGI-verse, CBM fans will understand but the world will feel like the uniqueness of the character has been compromised.

and SECOND, I will quote myself from 6/13:
"im just wondering why there seems to be this general consensus that just because nolan doesn't want superman in his batman movies, it means his version of batman—including bale's calculating & measured, yet seething and conflicted, a.k.a AWESOME portrayal—wouldn't work in a jla pic. why NOT? would you prefer the super friends/scooby doo batman?

the whole point is that batman, more than any other character, is ENDEMIC to his city; to gotham. he was born of and exists to serve this one godawful pit of despair and depravity. he's not SUPPOSED to work anywhere else; certainly not in a gleaming space station. the jla cartoon hit it just right in the beginning when batman tells the others that he's not gonna be there all the time, but he'll be there when they need him.

i ALWAYS thought it was nuts that he hung around with the rest of the boy scouts in jla... he's not like them and should NOT be made to fit. for god's sake batman used to f!@#$ing SHOOT people at the end of the story! let bale do it JUST LIKE HE HAS BEEN... BUT batman should only agree to work with them when they need his detective work in gotham, or new york, or rio, tokyo, moscow, bangkok, etc... someplace he understands AND where nobody else could do it as well. bale belongs in jla IF he wants in... but in or out they should NOT mess with the character he's created so PERFECTLY."

I had multiples of all those batman cups growing up, don't know what happened to them. They probably broke in the wash, cuz they were the only cups my brothers and I would drink out of for years. lol

You ate "Period" cereal? I never even heard of it. Sounds nasty...