Sam Raimi Is Perfect For Batman: Here's What His Movie Could Look Like
Director Sam Raimi has expressed interest in making a Batman movie, which he’d be an excellent fit for, utilizing his expertise in horror and superhero films to great effect. Sam Raimi’s filmography famously includes both the Evil Dead franchise and Marvel’s original Spider-Man trilogy, but his upcoming MCU film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, has renewed interest in his work on superhero movies. Raimi is notably a lifelong superhero fan, being particularly knowledgeable about the Spider-Man characters and mythos, resulting in some of the most authentic iterations of the web-slinger and his villains. Raimi’s appreciation for superheroes and his experience directing horror films would make for a crowd-pleasing new iteration of the Dark Knight.
Since his 1939 debut in Detective Comics, Batman quickly established himself as one of DC Comics’ most popular characters. While the 1960s Batman TV series is a cult classic, the Caped Crusader’s first major success on film was Tim Burton’s Batman in 1989. The movie was a game-changing success, influencing pop culture from both a cultural and marketing perspective, helping establish the modern superhero blockbuster film. Batman also made the Dark Knight WB’s most lucrative DC Comics intellectual property. Ever since the 1989 movie, WB has always fallen back on making solo Batman films, no matter what other movies they’ve released based on DC Comics characters.
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The success of 1989’s Batman directly led to the release of Marvel’s Blade, X-Men, and Sam Raimi’s own Spider-Man films, but it wasn’t until the Marvel Cinematic Universe film franchise released The Avengers in 2012 that the superhero
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