Batman in film
Films

Batman in film

Section Title: Films
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Film	U.S. release date	Actor	Director	Story by	Screenwriter(s)	Producer(s)	Distributor(s)

Serials

Batman	July 16, 1943	Lewis Wilson	Lambert Hillyer	Victor McLeod, Leslie Swabacker and Harry L. Fraser	Rudolph C. Flothow	Columbia Pictures

Batman and Robin	June 26, 1949	Robert Lowery	Spencer Gordon Bennet	George H. Plympton, Joseph F. Poland and Royal K. Cole	Sam Katzman

Original

Batman: The Movie	July 30, 1966	Adam West	Leslie H. Martinson	Lorenzo Semple, Jr.	William Dozier	20th Century Fox

Tim Burton / Joel Schumacher Anthology

Batman	June 23, 1989	Michael Keaton	Tim Burton	Sam Hamm	Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren, Charles McKeown and Jonathan Gems	Peter Guber, Jon Peters and Chris Kenny	Warner Bros.

Batman Returns	June 19, 1992	Daniel Waters	Daniel Waters and Wesley Strick	Tim Burton, Denise Di Novi and Larry Franco

Batman Forever	June 16, 1995	Val Kilmer	Joel Schumacher	Lee Batchler and Janet Scott-Batchler	Akiva Goldsman	Peter MacGregor-Scott and Tim Burton

Batman & Robin	June 20, 1997	George Clooney	Akiva Goldsman	Peter MacGregor-Scott

The Dark Knight Trilogy

Batman Begins	June 25, 2005	Christian Bale	Christopher Nolan	David S. Goyer	Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer	Charles Roven, Emma Thomas and Larry Franco	Warner Bros.

The Dark Knight	July 18, 2008	Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer	Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan	Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan

The Dark Knight Rises	July 20, 2012

DC Extended Universe

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	March 25, 2016	Ben Affleck	Zack Snyder	Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer	Charles Roven and Deborah Snyder	Warner Bros.

Suicide Squad	August 5, 2016	David Ayer	David Ayer	Charles Roven and Richard Suckle

Justice League	November 17, 2017	Zack Snyder	David S. Goyer, Zack Snyder and Chris Terrio	Chris Terrio	Charles Roven, Deborah Snyder, Jon Berg and Geoff Johns

Joker	October 4, 2019	Dante Pereira-Olson	Todd Phillips	Todd Phillips and Scott Silver	Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper and Emma Tillinger Koskoff

The Batman	June 25, 2021	TBA	Matt Reeves	Ben Affleck, Geoff Johns and Matt Reeves	Matt Reeves	Ben Affleck, Matt Reeves and Dylan Clark

Sentence(s)

Burton and Keaton returned for the 1992 sequel Batman Returns, and in 1995, Joel Schumacher directed Batman Forever with Val Kilmer as Batman.

final_sentence: Burton and Keaton returned for the 1992 sequel Batman Returns, and in 1995, Joel Schumacher directed Batman Forever with Val Kilmer as Batman.