20 Things You Didn't Know About Batman & Robin

1. Kevin Feige Said It Was The Most Important Comic Book Movie Ever Made

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The overwhelmingly negative response to Batman & Robin had many fans fearing that the comic book genre had been killed entirely, and it wouldn't be until the turn of the millennium that X-Men and Spider-Man convinced both the studios and audiences that superheroes still had a future on the big screen.

That initial boom is still going strong today, spearheaded by the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the franchise's architect Kevin Feige once admitted in an interview that he believed Joel Schumacher's flop was the most important comic book movie ever made at the time.

Of course, Feige wasn't calling it that for the right reasons, explaining that Batman & Robin's failure led to an industry-wide rethink on how to approach superhero properties and adapt them for the big screen, allowing filmmakers to treat them more seriously. If the Batman franchise hadn't reached the lowest of lows in 1997, we might never have seen the launch of the MCU a decade later.

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