30 Things You Didn't Know About Tim Burton's Batman

29. It Was Shot In Just Three Months

Batman 1989 Joker
Warner Bros.

Burton's Batman started principal photography on October 17, 1988 and wrapped on January 12, 1989, amounting to slightly less than three months of shooting, which is extraordinarily fast for a production of this scale - especially factoring in the Christmas break.

Compare it to every subsequent Batman movie and it seems even more miraculous: Batman and Robin (4.5 months), Batman Returns and Batman Forever (5.5 months), Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Rises (6.5 months) and The Dark Knight (almost 7 months).

Given that Batman '89 set the mould and had no cinematic predecessor to draw inspiration from, it's all the more impressive that Burton shot such great material in such a compressed time-frame.

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