Batman Forever (1995)
- During the filming of Batman Forever, Val Kilmer improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
- The original script for Batman Forever was written over a decade before production finally began in 1995.
- Many of the practical effects used in the climax were achieved without any CGI.
Batman Forever is a 1995 American superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher, the third Batman film following Tim Burton's two entries. Val Kilmer takes over the cape and cowl as Bruce Wayne/Batman, who faces two villains simultaneously: Two-Face, a scarred former district attorney played by Tommy Lee Jones, and the Riddler, a rejected Wayne Enterprises employee played by Jim Carrey, who team up to destroy Batman and drain Gotham's brainpower. The film introduced Chris O'Donnell as Dick Grayson/Robin and Nicole Kidman as psychologist Dr.
Chase Meridian. Joel Schumacher deliberately shifted the franchise's tone from Burton's gothic darkness toward a more colorful, commercially accessible approach โ the production design was dominated by neon, the villains were cartoonishly exaggerated, and the overall aesthetic anticipated the comic book films of the following decade. Jim Carrey's manic Riddler dominated every scene with the physical comedy energy of his 1994 peak.
Batman Forever earned $336 million worldwide on a $100 million budget, the highest-grossing Batman film at that time.
