Burton interviewed for Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight in 2005.
- "Believe or not, they've entrusted this entire operation to a 30-year-old guy who looks more like a lead guitarist than a leading director. Imagine having 400 people asking you 1000 questions and having to have the right answers instantly. Meet the amazing Tim Burton."
- ―Robert Wuhl[src]
Timothy Walter "Tim" Burton (born August 25, 1958) is a world renowned film director, producer, writer and artist who directed the original Batman and its first sequel, Batman Returns. He is also credited as a producer on the third film in the series, Batman Forever, directed by his friend, Joel Schumacher.
Despite initially giving the new creative team a seal of approval, Burton has since indicated negative feelings toward the third film, never liked doing it as much as he never liked doing the first film.[1] He and Val Kilmer chose not to participate in Batman & Robin. For a time he worked on developing a Catwoman spinoff with Daniel Waters but this never came to fruition. In late 90's he reunited with producer Jon Peters on Superman Lives, another cancelled film but was much further along in development.
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Burton attended a meeting with Warner Bros. about possibly doing a third Batman, and they demoted him to a producer role. Meanwhile, Joel Schumacher was getting ready to film The Client, and Warner Bros. approached him about doing the next Batman film, but only if Burton hired him. So, Schumacher left the breakfast meeting, flew up to New York, had lunch with Burton, and Burton hired Schumacher to direct the third Batman film, and to continue with the Batman franchise he started.
Schumacher and Burton met while making both The Lost Boys and Beetlejuice, and the two became friends after the box office successes of both films. Schumacher, not only to retain the darkness of the first two films, but also to make Batman Forever as a larger-than-life "living comic book" onscreen.
After hiring Schumacher to direct the next Batman film and to continue with the Warner Bros. Batman franchise he helped build, Burton helped out hiring Lee and Janet Scott Batchler to write the screenplay for the film. Burton went on to do Ed Wood and other projects and gave Schumacher his input.
Burton also tried to do a Catwoman spin-off with Michelle Pfeiffer returning, but never worked.
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