Kilmer disputes this in the NYT interview, saying that on paper it was scheduling difficulties with The Saint that saw him replaced with George Clooney in 1997’s Batman & Robin, but there’s certainly no love lost between Schumacher and the Top Gun star. “He wanted to do Island of Doctor Moreau because Marlon Brando was going to be in it,” he told THR. How to live and by what morality, and I found that the part that I feel bad about is hurting somebody in the process.”īatman Forever director Schumacher remembers it all going down in a slightly less poetic way, however. “Everyone has to work out their own salvation. “In an unflinching attempt to empower directors, actors and other collaborators to honor the truth and essence of each project, an attempt to breathe Suzukian life into a myriad of Hollywood moments, I had been deemed difficult and alienated the head of every major studio,” he said. There is no Batman,” he said, also noting that he does ultimately feel some guilt about being a ‘difficult’ actor to work with, and acknowledging that he ended up persona non grata in Tinseltown after incidents like the sudden abandonment of his proposed Batman sequels.

“That’s why it’s so easy to have five or six Batmans. In a huge new interview with the New York Times, the actor says he had an epiphany on the set of Joel Schumacher’s 1995 Dark Knight effort, Batman Forever, when billionaire Warren Buffett visited the set with his grandchildren.Īccording to Kilmer, he kindly waited to meet Buffett’s kids as he was told they wanted to see Batman, but when they arrived to find a Batsuited Kilmer ready to engage with them, they snubbed him for the Batmobile and various props, and he realised that it didn’t matter who was in the suit, and that Batman is purely a blank slate that we project ourselves on. Val Kilmer has addressed the circumstances that led to him leaving the role of Batman behind after just one movie.

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