1989Batman.com Warner Brothers 1988 Batman Preview Video RARE Making Of 1989

[@Ghostviking69]

Little did any of these creators know in this documentary how much of an impact they would have for decades to come in film.

[@daggy561]

I’m still blown away by the sets. The structure are amazing. Burton, thank you for creating THE Gotham

[@StudMacher78]

Tom Burton, a true film director legend

[@chrismedford2819]

Angry whenever I see or hear Bob Kane getting sole credit for creating Batman. So glad Bill Finger is finally getting recognition for his significant contribution. Shame on DC allowing this charade to go on so long.

[@evanzaremba4722]

That's why Bob Daly, Terry Semel, Alan Horn, and Barry Meyer wanted Bob Kane to have a sole credit on all seven films.

[@geoffberesford]

Indeed. Bob Kane was a con artist and a life-long bullshitter. He never mentions the fact that his original idea for the character bore no relation to the way Batman had taken off and developed due to the significant contributions made by other far more imaginative artists than he ever was.

[@BatMan-ke4ov]

This documentary has more atmosphere than top shelf Hollywood movies today.

[@brandonspain12345]

It was very gritty, melancholy and a haunting tone to it that I absolutely love.

[@purefoldnz3070]

however seeing Bob Kane pretend that he invented Batman is just awful.

[@theunknowncommenter725]

​@@purefoldnz3070 he did invent Batman. However this was back in the time when Bill fingers contributions were overlooked. That has changed since then

[@purefoldnz3070]

@@theunknowncommenter725 wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong. For shame.

[@JulioGomezNYC]

Screw Nolan... This is the ONLY BATMAN MOVIE THAT MATTERS!!!!!

[@evanzaremba4722]

So as Schumacher. Both Val Kilmer and Christian Bale are the best Batmen.

[@JulioGomezNYC]

@@evanzaremba4722 dude. Bale sucked. Not to mention that retarded voice of his.

[@Larry]

My left ear feels lonely. :(

[@raevhaar5723]

Man, Keaton could be the Joker as well, was insane in Beetlejuice

[@douglassnyder9206]

In another universe, sure.

[@sexcorpio6976]

His mouth is too small

[@anthonygordon9483]

Tim Burton was born to do batman cause all his movies are dark and gothic.Batman fits into a tim burton portfolio

[@MoonLoner07305]

Wow, thanks for uploading this. I first saw it in November/December of 1988 at a science fiction convention in New York. It was also the first time that they revealed the first image of Keaton in the batsuit as well. The crowd responded very favorably to the video and the image of Keaton in the suit. It's really great seeing this video again after all these years.

[@evanzaremba4722]

Batman '89 was my all-time favorite. Jack Nicholson is a good Joker. Kim Basinger did an amazing job as Vicki Vale. Batman Returns is my favorite as well. Danny DeVito is the perfect Penguin. Michelle Pfeiffer is an awesome Catwoman. Batman Forever is also my favorite. Val Kilmer is the best Batman. Tommy Lee Jones is an awesome Two-Face. Jim Carrey was funny as The Riddler. Chris O'Donnell is a good Robin. And Batman & Robin is my least favorite, but it's good. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a good Mr. Freeze. Alicia Silverstone is a good Batgirl. Robert Whul, Christopher Walken, and Nicole Kidman were great in them.

[@evanzaremba4722]

Michael Keaton's batsuit was okay, and so as George Clooney's.

[@jimmybonez8928]

Rip Anton Furst. I have never seen a picture, or seen him talking. VERY SAD!!! But his work lives forever!!!!!!!

[@evanzaremba4722]

Yes, Jimmy. God Bless Anton Furst.

[@Leon-wg5ke]

This is my favorite, Tim Burton knows the REAL essence of Batman.

[@evanzaremba4722]

But he wasn't a comics fan. He was a fan of the television series because I read his interview. Jon Peters, Joel Schumacher, Christopher Nolan, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, and Tommy Lee Jones are the real Batman fans. Burton, Akiva Goldsman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jim Carrey, Val Kilmer, Chris O'Donnell, and Alicia Silverstone watched the television series when they're kids. Michael Keaton, George Clooney, and Arnold Schwarzenegger were action fans.

[@CuteLesbo69]

If Burton knew the real essence of Batman he would not have him kill in the movie.

[@ProMonarchyGenius]

It is absolutely amazing that we are seeing these videos now :D

[@luisguillen7005]

ProMonarchyGenius i love finding old random stuff on here.

[@entennstudio]

To this very day one of my favourite films, and my favourite Batman film! This feature is pure magic from a beautiful bye gone era.

[@Colt2571]

My right ear really enjoyed this.

[@ErichoTTA]

Farrell Rose I'm glad it wasn't just me.

[@jjrj8568]

Batman '89 and Jurassic Park are my two favorite mainstream movies of the late '80s-early '90s. I still love every second-minute of them, including the making off videos

[@ontologicallysteve7765]

You only like every second minute? Well, personally, I like every single second (which equates to all of the seconds). But, to each his own.

[@evanzaremba4722]

My favorites are Batman '89, Batman Forever, and Batman Begins. My least favorites are Batman Returns and Batman & Robin, but that's okay.

[@evanzaremba4722]

@@ontologicallysteve7765 that's what he does.

[@snakes3425]

Bob Kane: Well I created Batman in 1939 Bill Finger: You mean I created Batman in 1939, you just came up with some guy in red tights and wooden bat wings and took all the credit

[@reptomicus]

Walter Gibson created Batman in The Shadow.

[@theunknowncommenter725]

Bob Kane created batman, Bill finger perfected him.

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

So sad about anton furst. He was a genius.

[@samuraispiritsx]

Wow god bless your soul Anton Furst, you made one of the most striking visual designs I've ever seen still to this day, true genius. I just wish you were still alive to help guide the way... Thank you for the upload @1989BatmanMovie

[@pikppa]

best batman movie ever

[@evanzaremba4722]

My all-time favorite. Jack Nicholson is the good Joker. Both Michael Keaton and George Clooney are the worst Batmen.

[@evanzaremba4722]

I agree. Along with it's three sequels.

[@manba7907]

Best Batman movie by dar.Thanks for uploading this jewel.

[@purefoldnz3070]

still the best Batsuit, best car, best Batman theme and best Batman by far.

[@CartoonManWhoo]

There will NEVER be another like this. The summer of 1989 was THE END ALL BE ALL of movie summers.

[@kascnef]

Amen. Honey 🍯 I shrunk the kids was awesome

[@CartoonManWhoo]

@@kascnef 1989 also gave us The Last Crusade, Ghostbusters 2, Tango and Cash... a lot of great ones.

[@ThomasStreet93]

I haven't seen this movie since Christopher Nolan's movies first came out. I think it's about time for another viewing.

[@PixelBrainMush]

And then Joel Shumacher came along and almost made Adam West's version look tough.

[@CartoonManWhoo]

Adam West's Batman could beat up all other Batman's in real life.

[@evanzaremba4722]

Don't you dare. Both Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher are friends. They met while making both The Lost Boys and Beetlejuice. They made mistakes over both Batman Returns and Batman & Robin. Besides, they fix their mistakes.

[@davidcornell4463]

@@evanzaremba4722 Oops, he dared. Deal with it.

[@evanzaremba4722]

I like his work. Schumacher was Burton's friend. I like his Batman films as much as I like Burton's. That's why they call it The Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher Batman movies (Batman The Motion Picture Anthology 1989-1997).

[@chrisfern4699]

@@evanzaremba4722 I loved Batman Returns

[@ImBatman365]

I wish they’d bring all this footage out to a box set

[@uptown3636]

2:36 "Well, I created Batman in 1939, and I had several influences..." You don't say, Bobby! Maybe one of those "influences" was the actual creator of Batman, Bill Finger.

[@evanzaremba4722]

Let me explain it to you, Warner Bros only wanted Bob Kane's name only in the Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher films and the Christopher Nolan films. Deal with it.

[@uptown3636]

Let me explain it to you, I didn’t ask for an explanation.

[@evanzaremba4722]

@@uptown3636 well, you got one right now.

[@uptown3636]

@@evanzaremba4722 I like your attitude, Evan. Hope you have a merry Christmas!

[@evanzaremba4722]

@@uptown3636 you too.

[@ronaldolara7853]

It is no accident that bob kane has always been "persona non grata". The guy is so scoundrel that he took on the fame he didn't deserve. BILL FINGER was responsible for everything related to the bat man.

[@StillAtMyMoms]

This makes me want to watch that new documentary about Burton's ill-fated "Superman Lives."

[@kangkinkang]

I used to have this documentary on VHS back in those days, it was damaged and thought I never see it again until this

[@TyroneDaviesWELSHMAN]

Thank you so much for your great work finding these great clips for us! I really would love to have an uncut copy of Batman 89.. Apparently loads was cut not included in the BluRay extras

[@evanzaremba4722]

And Joel Schumacher's vision of Batman Forever. Don't forget to sign the petition.

[@evm6177]

TIM BURTON & KEATON FOREVER!

[@evanzaremba4722]

How about Joel Schumacher and Val Kilmer and Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale?

[@jimmybonez8928]

RIP ANTON FURST

[@Achtungworld1]

Thank you for the upload!. This was very exciting to watch from my end. I loved watching the extended interviews with Anton Furst and other crew members. It was fascinating to see the pre-production models and the storyboards :) My only disappointment is that we didn't get a re-release of this in the cinemas. It would've been really nice to have finally seen this on the big screen.

[@darthkurland]

Wavey_echos the 1989 feature film itself? With its 30th anniversary next year, it might happen.

[@aarongarfield2128]

Thanks for this unique feature, considering Warner had the rights to this footage I'm not sure why none of this was used in the documentaries for the Dvd / Blu-Ray's or the "Making of A Hero TV Special" particularly with production designer Anton Furst which Warner should of least done a tribute or dedication too.

[@evanzaremba4722]

Maybe either Shout Factory and Warner Archive will get their hands on them.

[@user-ol7tz5mh2y]

Every time Bob Kane claimed he created Batman, I yelled "with Bill Finger" at the screen. Screw that guy!

[@will_it_work]

Then you're ill-informed...or stupid.

[@reidmason2551]

Who's ill-informed? Bill Finger IS Batman's co-creator, and Kane cheated him out of creator credits and royalties. And it's well-documented that Finger's responsible for much of what we know of Batman, right down to the classic costume and the Bruce Wayne ID. It took until last year for Finger to finally get his due for creating Batman, and DC honestly doubted the Kane estate would ever allow for it. It's not out of bounds for anyone to point out that Kane's solo credit on the pre-2016 Batman stuff is a half-truth, or that Kane wronged Finger. Even Kane's contemporaries routinely ripped him a new one for what he did.

[@darthkurland]

Reid Mason at least they’re sharing credit now.

[@BatMan-ke4ov]

Bill finger literally created Batman we know today,as bob's design was more like robin.

[@LeighMet]

@@reidmason2551 Bill Finger created Robin and said that Batman should be in a Cape and Cowl. The idea for Batman/Bruce Wayne THe millioniare/Billioniare with the Butler and a Batmobile is all Bob Kane

[@cyberpunkholiday]

I don't know why I don't visit this channel more? I guess I'm trying not to just watch everything all at once. So, by that, this is sooooo god damn good to watch. I can't get enough. If Warner Bros themselves showed me every single thing they had on the film...I would still have loved to be there on the set. Its my favorite movie of all time...and it just doesn't get any better than this first film. It gave us everything!

[@Urvy1A]

The music when they showed the set sounds New Wave-ish.

[@jaysonrogoz8822]

Yello Desire

[@RileyXmusic]

Read this comment on the exact part of the video

[@Jason_Voorhees.]

This is beyond awesome

[@swaylife84]

What a good video.

[@hogne]

Lots of music from Vangelis' soundtrack to Antarctica here.

[@evanzaremba4722]

How the hell did you know?

[@brandonspain12345]

​@@evanzaremba4722 ...probably because that's where he's heard it from? 🤯

[@evanzaremba4722]

@@brandonspain12345 I'll check that out.

[@ELKFILMZ]

Awesome! Thanks for the upload!

[@dray7276]

I hear they are going to go back to the original look of the first batman series for the movie following superman.

[@tkdchris2]

another great upload. Thanks

[@StevieStitches]

Batman was co-created by Bill Finger. Bill Finger was the original writer of Batman in the comic books. Bob Kane never wrote Batman. A documentary is being made called The Cape Creator: A Tribute to Bat-Maker Bill Finger. www.kickstarter.com/projects/comicartscouncil/the-cape-creator-a-tribute-to-bat-maker-bill-finge/posts

[@seriouscyrus33]

True. Simular story to the batmobile. People call it the burton mobile but the main man behind it was Anton Furst. He also designed the whole gotham city.

[@StevieStitches]

Cyrus Skywalker Tim Burton at least credited Anton Furst as designer in the movie credits and on the DVD commentary and special features. Bob Kane didn't credit Bill Finger as co-creator and writer. DC comics and movies still don't credit Bill Finger as co-creator of Batman. So I try to spread the Bill Finger info. I'm glad that a documentary is being made about Batman's uncredited and little known co-creator Bill Finger.

[@will_it_work]

All right, let's get down from the Finger soapbox. He can credited without tearing down or defaming Bob Kane.

[@Urvy1A]

What about the recent Hulu documentary?

[@TyDie85]

I remember enjoying the Adam West Batman. I still think it's something special and unique. But I personally think Tim Burton's Batman movies are the best. I know that it's my opinion. This is a movie & characters we are talking about...so of course it's subjective. But DAMN was it the darkness I had been looking for.

[@user-ik4kh9lt6d]

Great documentary! I'm a huge fan of the film and never saw this one before! Very informative! Great find!

[@arch9enius]

16:44 ... And thanks for not smoking. You can't see the back of the room!

[@evanzaremba4722]

I love Clean and Sober. Great movie.

[@jalenjohnson1662]

@1989BatmanMovie Do you know what's up with some of the gadgets featured in this? Specifically the time bomb, the portable tracer, and the ninja stars. Were they made for deleted scenes?

[@sadboi7537]

My right ear loved this.

[@chumcool]

0:41 "Some extraordinary e M e N i e s"

[@thesacredsynagegues1376]

Great detective work up loader.

[@1989batmanmovie]

Thank ya!

[@johnegan5721]

Batman 89 /92 Batman returns and beyond the bat in burtonverse continues with flash 2023 new era's within the batman original burtonverse of Batman series....🦇🦇🦇🦇❤❤👍

[@burn435353]

yo, did i just see Bob Kane tracing?

[@In-N-Out333]

2:28 Why did Bob color his face green?

[@BatMan-ke4ov]

Tim Burton literally reinvented Batman by casting Michael Keaton & giving an extra psychopathic layer to the character.& Bob(the fool)Kane,considered Val Kilmer(aka wooden plank) a perfect cast...lol.

[@evanzaremba4722]

Him a wooden plank? He's not a wooden plank. He's a good actor. Deal with it.

[@Andy_Draws0209]

See Zach Snyder this is how u make Batman

[@CesarIsaacPerez]

Awesome!!!

[@TOSStarTrek]

Got to watch it agin..

[@jaysonrogoz8822]

What music that play when reveal the batmobile.

[@thesentinel5523]

@3:28 For when you encounter that "guy" who always says Tim Burton didn't know anything about Batman and shits on his Batman films over whatever Batman on film is currently being marketed.

[@fabiofroio3382]

When truth is, you don't have to shit on either version. I LOVE Tim Burton's Batman, and I love the more recent incarnations, as well. I like that there are different interpretations of this legendary character. The more, and the more different, the better!

[@evanzaremba4722]

He made a mistake. Tim Burton and his friend Joel Schumacher made mistakes back in the 90's and they fix their mistakes. Do you understand me?

[@evanzaremba4722]

@@fabiofroio3382 I love Tim Burton's Batman, not only Burton's, but I also love Joel Schumacher's Batman.

[@dailydoseofsunshine2319]

Thank you Burton and co. for creating the one and only TRUE Gotham.

[@kentallard8852]

dark since the 1970s, not 80s

[@nivekleveb8872]

It's a bummer that people overlook Neal Adams, Gene Colan, Tom Mandrake, Don Newton, etc and act like Dark Batman just suddenly happened with Dark Knight Returns as if the character hadn't been moving in that direction for the previous 15 years or so

[@JohnGaltAustria]

No sound. Thank you so much KZbin.

[@brandonspain12345]

Try listening to it with your phone or headphones

[@bluejay22]

Wait, this come out before the movie? It spoils a lot of the movie. Like saying what’s gonna go on in certain scenes and showing the batmobile even though they made it sound like they wanted to keep the batmobile a secret until we see it in the movie. But I guess they did show it during the trailer. I saw this movie in our local theater (which isn’t a big name theater and it’s still standing and in business today which is pretty amazing for our little town to be open and running since years before I was born...then again, it is a national landmark and has been through a lot of repairs and replacement of certain things). I was 7 at the time. This movie scared the piss out of me but I stayed til the end. I loved the toys, mainly the action figures that they released with this movie. It’s one of my favorite movies today and if our local theater brought it back, I’d go see it in a heartbeat. I was obviously a little older when I went to see the sequel so I didn’t get scared and I knew about what to expect. I think I was the one out of my family that really wanted to go see it.

[@gwenkubilus7349]

This was shown by Warner to investors and potential investors while creating the film, not the general masses.

[@BCtube01]

Batman N01 is worth how much now?.....Bob Kane, if you only knew.

[@S66Alex]

Bob Kane :T

[@jserra2647]

Hi,,where i can get a VHS copy convention of the first teaser 90seconds ? Thnks

[@DuplicitousDark]

No mention of Bill Finger? I heard Burton actually hated Batman!

[@reidmason2551]

Burton did hate the finished film, because he was held in check by both DC and Guber-Peters and didn't have full creative control. (Frequent Batman writer Steve Englehart was one of the uncredited script doctors, hence Basinger's Vicki Vale being a fusion of both Vicki and Silver St. Cloud from the comics.) One of the sticking points for BATMAN RETURNS was that Burton would have total control...which, as we all know, backfired. But at the time, nobody knew that was coming. As for Bill Finger, Kane tried to bury any mention of him as much as possible. Aside from paying lip service to him in occasional interviews, Kane had no desire to acknowledge him as Batman's co-creator or to have the creator credits corrected. What's really sad is that if Kane had owned up before his own death to Batman being a two-man gig and allowed Finger to be co-credited -- even after Finger was already gone -- he would have been able to salvage his legacy. As it stands now, all Kane's remembered for is being a greedy backstabber who took advantage of his more talented partner. He destroyed his own standing in the Batman mythos by not doing the one thing that would have saved him.

[@fabiofroio3382]

@@reidmason2551 He actually looks back with fondness now, but he clashed a lot with producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber, and had them removed from the second movie. You can tell how his vision was somewhat restrained. He didn't like having to cram in pop songs by Prince, either.

[@gwenkubilus7349]

@Brandon Brooks The movie that he made, not the character

[@evanzaremba4722]

Joel Schumacher like Batman. And so as Christopher Nolan. They are fans of the character. So as Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, and Tommy Lee Jones.

[@evanzaremba4722]

@@reidmason2551 that's when Warner Bros tried to get Tim Burton to do the third film and they said to him "Tim, don't you want to do something more family-friendly and more kid-friendly", and he said "You don't want to make me do another one, would you", and they let him stay on as producer. And he hired his friend Joel Schumacher to carry on with the franchise in 1993, and Warner Bros hired Christopher Nolan to do the same in 2003.

[@newfrontierfilms6314]

Anyone know more about the bat gadgets that weren’t used in the film?

[@newfrontierfilms6314]

Brandon Spain I need to read that!!!

[@newfrontierfilms6314]

Brandon Spain I finished reading it. That was a very weak script. Glad it got rewritten.

[@fraddi]

T.Burton = N.Cage

[@skyry101]

Would've loved to see their Superman film!

[@BLACKFONZIRELLI]

niceeeeeeeeeeeeeee I like this

[@eenoramic]

Anyone knows what's the track that starts at 7:15?

[@jaysonrogoz8822]

iwantmyeentv yello

[@jaysonrogoz8822]

Yello Desire

[@ospuluquesa6083]

top parabéns

[@CubanPete1990]

Why can they have a Host for the making of the rear behind the scenes of Tim Burton’s Batman (1989 Movie) one of them should be hosting by LeVar Burton (from TV’s Star Trek the next generation)

[@douglassnyder9206]

While I'm not taking anything away from what Tim Burton did in the first two Batman movies, I think that Tim Burton would have served better as an executive producer instead of as the director. Which begs the question as to who else would have directed the Batman films throughout the 90s???

[@jalenjohnson1662]

I honestly can't imagine anyone else directing this film. Burton brought a lot to the table with his vision.

[@douglassnyder9206]

@Brandon Spain Well that's good I suppose. But I wouldn't have seen Steven Spielberg or Joe Dante as directors for a Batman film franchise from the 90s, nor would I have seen Harrison Ford or Bill Murray portraying The Dark Knight. And I didn't see any 'campy tones' in the first Superman movie.

[@douglassnyder9206]

@Brandon Brooks I know that Batman and Superman are different heroes within DC.

[@evanzaremba4722]

Because Tim Burton hired his friend Joel Schumacher to direct the third Batman film after they had lunch.

[@evanzaremba4722]

@@douglassnyder9206 you see, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are completely different characters. Christopher Reeve, Brandon Routh, Val Kilmer, Christian Bale, and Lynda Carter got those characters right.

[@Urantian666]

Bob Kane ....I dont like him.

[@MrImiller07]

I'm sure that Bob Kane would have been thrilled that Christopher Nolan did a more serious treatment of the Batman characters in The Dark Knight series of films.

[@darthkurland]

MrImiller07 if he was alive to see it. In Memoriam: Bob Kane (1915-1998) Bill Finger (1914-1974) Jerry Robinson (1922-2011) Heath Ledger (1979-2008) Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (1918-2014) Eartha Kitt (1927-2008) Yvonne Craig (1937-2015) Anton Furst (1944-1991) Jack Palance (1919-2006) Pat Hingle (1924-2009) Michael Gough (1916-2011) And Adam West (1928-2017).

[@MrKanjy]

Music @7:20?

[@gspot65hotmaildotcom]

Yello - Desire and if you would be wondering about the end ... Vangelis - Kinematic