Joel Schumacher Says The Original Sequel To BATMAN FOREVER Was A Film Based In Arkham Asylum

On the 20th anniversary of Batman And Robin, Joel Schumacher reveals that the film was not his original plan for the follow up to Batman Forever. Screenrant shares a quote from the director that you can read below:

“I always wanted to do a whole Arkham movie, and did a scene at the end of Batman Forever when Jim [Carrey] is in a straitjacket and Nicole [Kidman] comes to see him. And it was just a nod to back to Arkham Asylum which I love, and I thought it would be fun to put the other villains up there.”

I can’t even begin to imagine what an Arkham Asylum movie would look like with the pageantry Schumacher injected into his films! Alas, Batman had to be recast and the film moved onto the atrocity that is Batman And Robin. Arkham Asylum has been a good setting for some video games, but do you think you could make a film out of it? Maybe if a studio tackled it in the same way they shot The Raid or Dredd I could see it working very well without feeling too hard to manage.