Turns Out Joel Schumacher's Not Writing A BATMAN Comic After All

Last week, Bleeding Cool reported that Batman Forever and Batman & Robin director Joel Schumacher is working on a 12-issue miniseries adapting his proposed trilogy of Bat-movies. Well, it appears that rumour has been debunked. Hit the jump for details.

By staypuffed - Oct 27, 2014 04:10 PM EST

Filed Under: Batman

The usually reliable Bleeding Cool scored a scoop recently, with a reliable source informing the site that Joel Schumacher, director of Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, would pen a 12-issue miniseries based on his original vision for a trilogy of Bat-films (including the cancelled threequel Batman Triumphant), with Dustin Nguyen on art duties. This has been doing the rounds online for days now, so it's quite likely you've heard about it, but one person who hasn't is -- Joel Schumacher? It appears things weren't to be believed, as the writer/director isn't planning to return to his infamous Bat-verse... or perhaps he doesn't want us to know about it just yet. Are you relieved that Schumacher is staying away from the Caped Crusader, or are you disappointed that this rumour is just that?

@thedissolve @BrianDuffield This isn't a thing - someone asked him yesterday at London Screenwriter's Festival. He's never heard about it.
— Simon Underwood (@SiFoulaReel) October 27, 2014

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18 Comments

FordEl - 10/27/2014, 5:06 PM

I was interested in seeing a batman triumphant comic series

GreenLantern519 - 10/27/2014, 5:09 PM

That's too bad! I was actually interested to see his Batman series continued.

Invictor - 10/27/2014, 5:14 PM

It would have been interesting to see how his Triumphant plot would've worked out, even it is terrible.

Supes17 - 10/27/2014, 5:26 PM

I would have read it

MarkyMarkRises - 10/27/2014, 5:30 PM

dang it

DEVLIN712 - 10/27/2014, 5:31 PM

I'm really disappointed, I was looking forward to seeing where else the story was going.

GuardianAngel - 10/27/2014, 5:33 PM

It's a shame. As campy as those movies were. They were what they were and I was actually really looking forward to reading this. And am I the only one who would like to see a continuation of TDKRises in comic form?

BlackIceJoe - 10/27/2014, 5:38 PM

I know the movies weren't the greatest, but I'd have enjoyed reading what else he had planned. I also would enjoy seeing what Tim Burton would have done with his third Batman film too. So I would be all for these kinds of comics.

EthanSmith1 - 10/27/2014, 5:50 PM

It would be cool if every planned/canceled CBM was told in comic book form

Tobe Hooper's Spider-Man
James Cameron's Spider-Man
Tim Burton's Batman Forever
Tim Burton's Superman Lives
Darren Aronofsky's Batman: Year One
Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 4
Chris Columbus’ Fantastic Four
George Miller’s Justice League
Joss Whedon’s Wonder Woman
etc. etc.

HulkOnion - 10/27/2014, 6:08 PM

Rumor with a u

How many contributors here are British/Austrailian?

DudeGuyManBro - 10/28/2014, 1:42 AM

@nailbiter111 's article source was... wrong? A CBM editor was wrong? That can't be!

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/nailbiter111/news/?a=109898

LeonNova - 10/28/2014, 10:52 AM

I was actually excited for it and would've read it. I wanna read a comic book depicting what Tim Burton's Batman 3 would've been like though.

Turns Out Joel Schumacher's Not Writing A BATMAN Comic After All

Last week, Bleeding Cool reported that Batman Forever and Batman & Robin director Joel Schumacher is working on a 12-issue miniseries adapting his proposed trilogy of Bat-movies. Well, it appears that rumour has been debunked. Hit the jump for details.

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