BANK - CONTINUOUS As the bus pulls out, the purple thread PULLS THE PIN- hostages scream and scurry away from the Bank Manager, who shakes with fear as, with a FIZZ, the grenade does not explode, but SPEWS RED SMOKE. Batman 2 screenplay by sam hamm first draft note: the hard copy of this script contained scene numbers. They have been removed for this soft copy. THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THIS SOFT COPY. NOTE ALSO: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT WAS IN THE NON- PREFORMAT FONT 'BOOKMAN OLD'. You are looking at a replica of an autographed script from Tim Burton's 1989 'Batman'. The Title Page, along with its Autographs, are professionally printed on high-quality paper. The pages are held together with industry-standard brass-plated fasteners. The script comes in a clear protective sleeve with a stabilizing insert. RELATED: Could Batman: The Animated Series Exist Without The 1989 Film? Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Wuhl explained, 'I actually died in the original script.' Instead of today's secretive nature of only giving actors portions of their scripts, the Batman cast was privy to the whole story. Knox was originally supposed to die in the Joker.

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2. Batman 1989 Script

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Batman is a 1989 film about the caped crusader's fight against his arch-nemesis, the Joker.

Directed by: Tim Burton. Written by Sam Hamm and Warren Skaaren, based upon characters created by Bob Kane.

Batman 1989 Quotes

The Joker/Jack Napier[edit]

• [in TV ad] New and improved Joker products! With the new secret ingredient--Smylex! Now, let's go over to our blind taste test. Uh-oh. He don't look happy. He's been using Brand X! [extends X sound as a hiss] But with new and improved Joker brand...I get a grin, again and again! That luscious tan! Those ruby lips! And hair color so natural, only your undertaker knows for sure! I know what you're saying: 'Where can I get these fine new items?' Well, that's the gag. Chances are, you've bought 'em already! So remember, put on a happy face!

• And now, folks, it's time for 'Who do you trust!' Hubba, hubba, hubba! Money, money, money! Who do you trust? Me? I'm giving away free money. And where is the Batman? He's at home, washin' his tights! [looks up into the sky and sees the Batwing] Winged bat flies through the night and finds me ready. [to Bob the Goon] Bob, Mask. [to crowd in the street] And now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But, as my plastic surgeon always said, If you've gotta go, go with a smile!

• 'Winged freak terrorizes'. Wait till they get a load of ME!

• Batman?, Batman?, Can somebody tell me what kind of a world we live in where a man dressed up as a bat gets all of my press?! This town needs an enema!

Dialogue[edit]

Nick: Don't kill me! Don't kill me, man! Don't kill me! Don't kill me, man!!

Batman: I'm not gonna kill you. I want you to do me a favor. I want you to tell all your friends about me.

Nick: What ARE you?!

Batman: I'm Batman.

Carl Grissom. That you, sugar bumps? [turns around] Who the hell are you?

The Joker. It's me...'sugar bumps'.

Carl Grissom. [alarmed] Jack? Oh...thank God you're alive! I heard you'd been--

The Joker. Fried? Is that what you heard? You set me up--over a woman. A WOMAN! You must be insane.

[Grissom turns around, reaches for a gun]

The Joker: Don't bother.

Carl Grissom. Your life won't be worth SPIT!

The Joker. I've been dead once already. It's very liberating. You should think of it as...therapy.

Carl Grissom. Jack--listen. Maybe we can cut a deal.

The Joker. Jack? Oh, Jack is dead, my friend. [emerging into the light] You can call me...Joker. And as you can see, I'm a lot happier! [He commences to laugh maniacally as he repeatedly shoots Grissom] Ohh, what a day!

The Joker: So gentlemen, that's how it is. Until Grissom, uh, [chuckles] resurfaces, I'm the acting President, and I say starting with this anniversary festival, we run this city to the ground.

Gangster: Why don't we hear this from Grissom?

Tony: Yeah, and what's with that stupid grin?

The Joker: Life's been good to me.

Tony: What if we say 'No'?

The Joker: Well, Tony, nobody wants a war. And if we can't do business, why, we just shake hands and that'll be it.

Vicki: Some people say that you're as dangerous as the Joker.

Batman: He's psychotic.

Vicki: There are some people who say the same thing about you.

Batman: What people?

Vicki: Well let's face it, you're not exactly...'normal', are you?

Batman: It's not exactly a 'normal' world, is it?

Bruce: What's on your mind, Alfred?

Alfred: I have no wish to spend my few remaining years grieving for the loss of old friends. Or their sons.

Vicki: Hi. Tell me if I'm crazy. But that wasn't just another night for either of us, was it? I mean, we both got to each other, didn't we? Why won't you let me in? Why?

Bruce: You got in.

Vicki: I've loved you since I met you. But I don't know what to think of all this. I really don't.

Bruce: Look, sometimes I don't know what to think about this. It's just something I have to do.

Vicki: Why?

Bruce: Because nobody else can. Look, I tried to avoid all this, but I can't. This is how it is. It's not a perfect world.

Vicki: It doesn't have to be a perfect world. I just gotta know, are we going to try to love each other?

Bruce: [short pause] I'd like to. But he's out there right now. And I've got to go to work.

Batman: Excuse me. You ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? [punches Joker and knocks him against a bell, before grabbing him] I'm going to kill you!

Joker: You idiot! You made me, remember? You dropped me into that vat of chemicals. That wasn't easy to get over, and don't think that I didn't try!

Batman: [smirks] I know you did. [punches Joker in the stomach and knocks him through a wall] You killed my parents.

Joker: Wha-what? What are you talking about?

Batman: I made you; you made me first.

Joker: Hey, bat-brain, I was a kid when I killed your parents! I mean, I say I made you, you've gotta say you made me ... how childish can you get? [puts on a pair of glasses] You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you? Huh!?

[Batman knocks the Joker over the side]

Harvey Dent: We've received a letter from Batman this morning. 'Please inform the citizens of Gotham that Gotham City has earned a rest from crime. But if the forces of evil should rise again to cast a shadow on the heart of the city, call me.'

Alexander Knox: Question: How do we call him?

Commissioner Gordon: He gave us this signal!

About Batman[edit]

• There was no guarantee that any of this was going to play correctly when it was all said and done. There had never been a movie like it before. There was a lot of risk, too, with Jack looking the way he did and me stepping out in this new way. The pressure was on everybody. You could feel it.
• We’re standing there at one point, I’m in my bat suit, Jack is in Joker get-up and I just looked at him and said, ‘We’re grown men, right?’
  • Michael Keaton, Michael Keaton’s dark memories of ‘Batman’ and shining love for ‘Beetlejuice’, HeroComplex.latimes, 12 May 2011

• I'll always stand by the first Batman. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.
  • Michael Keaton, Endorses Chris Nolan's Batman Flick, Looks Foward To 'Dark Knight', MTV, 1 January 2008

• I really wanted desperately to obviously do Two-Face…I wanted to see what I could do with it. It would have been different from Tommy Lee’s. I’ve got my own kind of madness.
  • Billy Dee Williams, Why Tim Burton's Batman 3 Never Happened, Den of Geek, 16 June 2016

Cast[edit]

• Michael Keaton - Batman/Bruce Wayne
• Jack Nicholson - The Joker/Jack Napier
• Kim Basinger - Vicki Vale
• Robert Wuhl - Alexander Knox
• Pat Hingle - Commissioner James Gordon
• Billy Dee Williams - Harvey Dent
• Michael Gough - Alfred Pennyworth
• Jack Palance - Carl Grissom
• Jerry Hall - Alicia Hunt
• Tracey Walter - Bob the Goon
• Lee Wallace - The Mayor
• William Hootkins - Lt. Max Eckhardt
• Edwin Craig - Antoine Rotelli

External links[edit]

• Encyclopedic article on Batman (1989 film) at Wikipedia
• Batman (1989) quotes at the Internet Movie Database

Batman 1989 Script