1989
Sep 01, 2019
3 minutes
NICK DE SEMLYEN
THE SUMMER OF 1989 saw madness erupt all over the globe, and it was all thanks to a nocturnal mammal. “It was crazy, weird and bizarre,” says Sam Hamm, co-writer of Tim Burton’s Batman and one of the people responsible for the ensuing Batmania. “There’s nothing you could do but disassociate from it. To be honest, I found it kind of scary. I was grateful when things calmed down a little bit.”
The project, a fresh big-screen had just started coming out as Tim and I got together. It was just this sort of presence in the air.”
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