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Does Michael Uslan hate the Adam West incarnation of Batman?


Michael Uslan for those who don't know is the executive producer of the Batman motion pictures (beginning w/ the 1989 one w/ Michael Keaton). Here's what he wrote on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/TheMichaelUslan/posts/1192046197525166

This footage is exactly why I felt compelled to buy the movie rights to Batman in 1979 and devote my life and career to finding a way to restore the darkness and dignity to The Dark Knight. Thanks to the genius of Chris Nolan, Tim Burton, Anton Furst, Bruce Timm, Paul Dini and so many others, the below image is not the one and only image the world knows as Batman. Having met and known Batman's earliest creative team of Bob Kane, Bill Finger, and Jerry Robinson, I feel that despite all the quicksand traps along the decades-long path, it has all been worth it. That said, I also have the greatest respect for Adam West and his Bat team which, though no longer the only interpretation of Batman offered to the world, is today an important portal to young kids to first get to know The Caped Crusader before eventually graduating to the animation, the comic books, the movies, and the videogames.

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I doubt it, since he likes Batman Forever and even Batman & Robin. He just didn't like that Batman's dark roots and post-Adam West being ignored in pop culture in favor of the camp to the point the comics were beginning to return to some of that stuff in the 80s (see some of the Len Wein stories for example and certainly Harlan Ellison's infamous issue) until Frank Miller came along and put a stop to it permanently.

We’re trying to pretend as if these comic books don’t exist. - David Goyer on the DCEU

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Who cares? I get tired of seeing uslan on the special features

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Because Uslan is like many fanboys: He takes it way too seriously.

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