15 Crazy Facts You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy Batman Movies

2. Half Of The Live-Action Directors Hadn't Read A Batman Comic Before Making The Films

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This is quite a shocking statistic, don't you think?

What's more, you'd probably struggle to guess which two out of the four live-action Batman movie directors since Tim Burton's 1989 film are the culprits.

Believe it or not, but the men responsible for what are inarguably the best Batman films - Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan - were actually the directors who, prior to signing up to their films, had never even picked up a Batman comic to read.

Joel Schumacher and Zack Snyder, on the other hand, grew up reading Batman comics and somehow turned in a bunch of questionable movies. For fans of the Caped Crusader, then, it's crazy to come to terms with the idea that those filmmakers who knew less about the canon produced the greatest films in the franchise to date.

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Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.