According to what Tim Burton had planned, he was going to blackwash Two-Face by having Billy D(Dee?) Williams turn into Two-Face in the third film, which thankfully never got made.
Burton was also going to blackwash Robin by casting Marlon Wayans. I think Marlon talked a bit about this and Burton mentioned it somewhere? (I'm too arsed to find the links at this point)
Either way, the blackwashing of Batman was an inevitability.
It was meant to happen sooner in the 1990s, yet Warner Bros., (for better or for worse) canned Burton as director due to the backlash from Batman Returns (i.e., parents complained it was too "dark" and "sexual" for the little lads and lasses).
You can decide whether the pozzing of the Batman franchise happening 30 years ago or today is better or worse.
EDIT: Also, I have not seen The Batman and likely never will (though maybe if I'm bored enough I might, but I doubt it). Blackwashing Gordon (and likely Barbara), and niggerfying Catwoman were all a bridge too far. Plus, Pattison just did not exude enough masculinity to be considered or taken seriously as Batman.
It was a funny bit of trivia that Pattison was actually OLDER than Christian Bale when playing his year-one Batman, even though Bale came across as WAY more mature, intimidating and physically capable.
He said the first person he knew who died from the AIDS epidemic, in 1983, "was not promiscuous"
What do you think qualifies as "not promiscuous" to someone with a 10k body count?
A thought that probably existed inside Schumacher's brain: my friend who died from AIDS had only fucked a couple hundred people! This disease really could kill anyone!
Thanks for the reminder, because I was just about to ask, "Wasn't Schumacher also accused of being a pedophile?" and you went on confirmed it with the Wikipedia entry.
According to what Tim Burton had planned, he was going to blackwash Two-Face by having Billy D(Dee?) Williams turn into Two-Face in the third film, which thankfully never got made.
Burton was also going to blackwash Robin by casting Marlon Wayans. I think Marlon talked a bit about this and Burton mentioned it somewhere? (I'm too arsed to find the links at this point)
Either way, the blackwashing of Batman was an inevitability.
It was meant to happen sooner in the 1990s, yet Warner Bros., (for better or for worse) canned Burton as director due to the backlash from Batman Returns (i.e., parents complained it was too "dark" and "sexual" for the little lads and lasses).
You can decide whether the pozzing of the Batman franchise happening 30 years ago or today is better or worse.
EDIT: Also, I have not seen The Batman and likely never will (though maybe if I'm bored enough I might, but I doubt it). Blackwashing Gordon (and likely Barbara), and niggerfying Catwoman were all a bridge too far. Plus, Pattison just did not exude enough masculinity to be considered or taken seriously as Batman.
It was a funny bit of trivia that Pattison was actually OLDER than Christian Bale when playing his year-one Batman, even though Bale came across as WAY more mature, intimidating and physically capable.
What do you think qualifies as "not promiscuous" to someone with a 10k body count?
A thought that probably existed inside Schumacher's brain: my friend who died from AIDS had only fucked a couple hundred people! This disease really could kill anyone!
Thanks for the reminder, because I was just about to ask, "Wasn't Schumacher also accused of being a pedophile?" and you went on confirmed it with the Wikipedia entry.