Batman Returns
The Batman universes of Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher have a couple of similarity but also a muckle of departure , but there ’s one Arnold Schwarzenegger Easter ballock inBatman Returnsthat could link both universe . After a film adaption of the 1960s TV seriesBatman , the Caped Crusader returned to the big cover in Tim Burton’sBatman , in 1989 , with Michael Keaton playing the statute title character . The winner ofBatmanmade way for a continuation titledBatman Returns , and while it ’s now regard as one of the best superhero motion picture ever made , its tone was too drear and the studio decided to go in a different direction for its third Batman film .
This led to Tim Burton stepping down and Joel Schumacher taking over , withVal Kilmer now playing Bruce Wayne / BatmaninBatman forever and a day . Although very different fromBatman return , Batman Foreverwas a commercial achiever , granting it a sequel , Batman & Robin , with Schumacher back as director and George Clooney dally the Caped Crusader . The debate over whether Burton and Schumacher ’s Batman movies be in the same universe or not continues , and one Easter egg inBatman Returnscould be an interesting link to Schumacher’sBatman & Robin , all thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger .
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Did Batman Returns’ Max Shreck Know Batman & Robin’s Victor Fries?
Batman Returnssaw the Dark Knight come across two villains : Oswald Cobblepot / Penguin ( Danny DeVito)and Max Shreck ( Christopher Walken ) . The latter was a wealthy and ruthless industrialist who made a deal with the Penguin : Shreck would serve the Penguin become mayor , so he would sanction Shreck ’s plans to build a power plant . Shreck was a very pop man , and he had various photographs at his office of him with celebrity , including Arnold Schwarzenegger , which has been theorized to in reality beBatman & Robin ’s Victor Fries .
One of the villains inBatman & Robinwas Victor Fries , a molecular scientist whose married woman , Nora , had MacGregor ’s Syndrome , so he was working on a cure for her . nestling had an accident in a cryogeny laboratory that left him ineffective to live at average temperature and forced him to wear a cryogenic suit power by diamonds so he could pull round , becomingthe villain Mr. Freeze . It has been conjecture that the photo in Shreck ’s office really demonstrate Shreck and Fries before the latter ’s stroke , though ground for these two characters knowing each other vary : perhaps Shreck financed Fries ’ experiments , they thwart paths at some result because they were both famous in their own region , or Fries assist Shreck with something at some point .
Are Burton & Schumacher’s Batman Movies Set In The Same Universe?
Victor Fries appear in aBatman ReturnsEaster ball before he became Mr. Freeze linksBurton ’s Batman movies and Schumacher ’s , but it still does n’t answer the question of whether these are part of the same cosmos or not . Warner refers toBatman , Batman Returns , Batman Forever , andBatman & Robinas the “ Batman Anthology ” , but they all share the same Alfred Pennyworth ( Michael Gough ) and James Gordon ( Pat Hingle ) , Chase Meridian ( Nicole Kidman ) made a quotation to Catwoman inBatman Forever , and Schumacher ’s flick used the backstory Burton make Batman .
The Burtonverse and Schumacher ’s film can be insure as disjoined entity ( either differentiate them in Burton and Schumacher ’s universes , or Burtonverse , Batman Forever , andBatman & Robin ) or as one confusing and bizarre whole . As for the likely appearance ofBatman & Robin ’s Victor Fries inBatman Returns , it ’s up to witness to decide if it works or not , but it ’s certainly fun to imagine two villains from these different versions knowing each other andbattling different batman .
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