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Sam Hamm (born November 19, 1955) is an American screenwriter and comic book writer. [1] Hamm is known for writing the initial drafts of the screenplay for the 1989 Batman movie before those duties were handed over to Warren Skaaren . [ 2 ]
The September 1950 pilot for The Batman Mystery Club was recorded with Richard Devon as Batman and Ronald Liss as Robin. [72] In 1989, an original radio drama, Batman: The Lazarus Syndrome, was produced by Dirk Maggs for BBC Radio 4. Bob Sessions was the voice of Batman.
In 1988, Skaaren did preliminary research for Days of Thunder (1990), but was approached to rewrite the script for Batman (1989). [8] Due to the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike , Sam Hamm was not allowed to finish his script for Batman so Warner Bros. contacted Skaaren to rewrite the film's shooting script before filming was to begin.
Reporter Alexander Knox and photojournalist Vicki Vale investigate sightings of "Batman", a masked vigilante targeting Gotham City's criminals. Both attend a fundraiser hosted by billionaire Bruce Wayne, who is secretly Batman, having chosen this path after witnessing a mugger murder his parents when he was a child.
In the original script written by Tom Mankiewicz in 1983 for the film that eventually became Batman (1989), crime boss Rupert Thorne hires Joe Chill to murder Thomas Wayne, who is running against Thorne for city council. [23] In Sam Hamm's original drafts, Chill is referred to as "Gunman". [24]
Batman '89 is a superhero comic book limited series published by DC Comics that serves as an continuation of Tim Burton's two Batman films, Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), which starred Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne / Batman). [1] [2] The series is written by the first two films' screenwriter, Sam Hamm, and illustrated by Joe Quinones ...
In Sam Hamm's original script for Batman Returns, Bullock was intended to appear as Commissioner Gordon's companion. [40] However, he was removed from the script after Tim Burton signed on to direct. The DCAU incarnation of Harvey Bullock appears in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, voiced again by Robert Costanzo. [31]
Michelle Pfeiffer has shared what the original Batman Returns script looked like while celebrating the birthday of the man behind the film’s titular hero in Tim Burton’s celebrated 1992 sequel