There’s a Darker, 170-Minute Schumacher Cut of ‘Batman Forever’

https://www.thathashtagshow.com/2020/07/03/theres-a-darker-170-minute-schumacher-cut-of-batman-forever/

Writer and podcaster Marc Bernardin told Kevin Smith on FatMan Beyond he believes a nearly three-hour cut of the film exists in the Warner Bros. vault somewhere.

https://youtu.be/I3zLNbam1v0

“I have it on pretty good authority that there exists in the Warner Bros. vault a 170-minute cut of Batman Forever,” Bernardin said. “I think that it went much deeper into his childhood psychosis and his mental blocks and that it was a more serious, darker version of that movie that was one of the first assemblies that Joel filed with the studio and they eventually cut it down because they were like ‘it’s too dark for kids. We gotta sell these Happy Meals, so maybe let’s not invest ourselves in the trauma of childhood murder. We’ve got Jim Carrey, let him do some s–t.”