Director Joel Schumacher, known for helming the two Batman films Batman Forever and Batman & Robin insists Batman was never meant to be gay in either film.
In a new interview, in which Schumacher also numbers his sexual partners at about 20,000, the Flatliners filmmaker has slammed rumors that as an out-gay man he intended his Batman films to have some kind of gay subtext.
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“If I wasn’t gay, they would never say those things,” Schumacher said in an interview with Vulture. He also notes that critics had attacked Batman as a gay character as early as the 1950s. “This all started way before me. Long before I came along, someone wrote a whole thing about what the real message of fairy tales and children’s stories are. Snow White was all about having bad stepmothers. And Batman and Robin are two homosexual men living in a cave, living together. There’s always been this thing about Batman and Robin being gay.”
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Schumacher has endured the criticism since he redesigned the Batman and Robin costumes for Batman Forever, adding nipples to their armor.
Despite the success of Batman Forever, which had the biggest opening of all time for a movie, Batman & Robin proved an enormous flop, effectively crashing the franchise that began in 1989 with Tim Burton’s Batman. Schumacher has said on numerous occasions that he takes full responsibility for the quality of the film, and apologized to fans as well.
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Interested tidbit:. Burt Ward who played Robin in the insanely camp 60’s TV show was so hung that after the first few episodes aired they had to reshoot the remaining episodes with him wearing a specially created cod piece to hide his massive peen!
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ricdardc1
Blah, Blah, Blah…….That is always what they say,…. but Massive I think not. He looks about average, Get a Grip Mary. They say that but he would have to be a grower not a shower. Believe me I am a V.P.L. searcher. None there. I never bought into that myth.
kcguy
My gay feelings began happening at age 10 watching Batman and Robin in the tights and Speedo type briefs. Then watching them getting sleeping gas and being tied up in bondage. That was in the late 60’s. Now today at age 60 I still have that Speedo and brief fetish. Especially black speedos.
just me
and there i thought i was the only one 🙂
rray63
I wonder where he came up with the film had the biggest opening of all time? Maybe he doesn’t follow the Hollywood news anymore?
PinkoOfTheGange
Left out “at the time”.
52 million for the weekend, how quaint. Now they want 100 million for a Friday alone to classify a blockbuster.
DarkZephyr
Nearly any time males are shown as sexy, it has to be “That’s gay”. Its like some people forget that heterosexual women exist and matter.
gran77
Somebody explain Zac Efron to me!
Calabashe
That’s silly! Batman likes having young boys around. He finds a “new” one whenever the current “Robin” gets too old! Think – Nightwing! Clearly Batman’s a PEDO!
Kangol2
Did Joel Schumacher shtup both Batman and Robin?
ricdardc1
Yes, but non-disclosures were involved
alllowercase
“If I wasn’t gay, they would never say those things,” Schumacher said in an interview with Vulture. He also notes that critics had attacked Batman as a gay character as early as the 1950s. “This all started way before me.”
So which is it? Did it all start way before you, or was it said just because you were gay? You can’t have it both ways Joel!
ricdardc1
What Straight boy follows a Straight man down a BATPOLE, & how do you explain that as a premise, “We’re gonna slide down this Pole, but you can never tell anyone about it. ” …….Scream’s Pedo, & Alfred not calling Child Protective Services. Pedo by Proximity. ” The 60s were full of 69’s.