| To The Heart Collector: By the time the whole Superman project thing came about, yeah - Burton had already directed two comic book adaptations. But before Batman, his movies were Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Beetlejuice, not to mention the weird shorts. So Burton wasn't associated neither with comic book adaptations nor with big budget movies before that. Also, you see these geeky, self-proclaimed comic book fan directors all over now. Just look at Iron Man. Jon Favreau, a self-proclaimed Iron Man/comic books in general fan, was hired for the Iron Man film, I suppose, because Marvel trusted him to do justice to their work. And indeed we got a fun movie filled to the brim with these geeky in-joke references to the comics, etc. Kevin Smith, Joss Whedon... there are plenty such passionate comic book-fan directors probably itching to make such movies - so passionate that their previous efforts (Superman for Smith, Wonder Woman for Whedon) blew up in production. Maybe I'm wrong, and I definitely don't know enough about the behind-the-scenes goings on with the production of these movies, but to me, the attachment of Singer to X-Men and subsequently Raimi to Spider-Man and Nolan to Batman seem directly linked to the success of attaching a non-big-budget-action-movie-associated director (Burton) to that first Batman movie. Seems like a logical connection to me. |