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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 ]
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 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.
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.
For producer Michael Uslan, Englehart wrote early treatments and served as script doctor for the Batman film that was based on his comics series; it was later scripted by Sam Hamm and directed by Tim Burton. [76]
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 ...
Screenwriter Sam Hamm, ... The other overtly Bond-ian element of The Batman script is Bruce's prodigious sex life, which Mankiewicz goes out of his way to make part of the character's origin story ...