Joel Schumacher, who just passed away, directed it and he’d say, ‘Yeah, it didn’t work.’” Clooney added, “We all whiffed on that one.Kilmer’s “Batman Forever” (1995) and Clooney’s “Batman & Robin” (1997), both from director Joel Schumacher, turned out to be one-and-done entries for the actors as they chose not to return to defend Gotham in the future. I just said, ‘Don’t have nipples on the suit.’”Ĭlooney said of “Batman & Robin,” “The truth of the matter is, I was bad in it,” adding, “Akiva Goldsman, who’s won the Oscar for writing since then, he wrote the screenplay. “But I can only impart my wisdom from my experience.
Ben didn’t listen to me, and ended up doing a great job, and I was wrong,” Clooney said.
I’ve bombed in things, and I’ve had big successes. “I’ve sort of had both rounds….I’ve been a big flop. (Affleck first appeared as the Dark Knight in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” and will next be seen again in Zack Snyder’s new cut of “Justice League” on HBO Max, and the upcoming Flash movie.) You’ll be flipping the channels and it’ll just pop up and I’m like ‘Oh no, no, no.’”Ĭlooney also told Howard Stern that the post-traumatic stress of it all led him to try and talk Ben Affleck out of playing Batman. “It’s so bad that it actually hurts to watch,” Clooney said on the show. 'The Midnight Sky' Review: George Clooney's Gorgeous and Derivative Apocalyptic Vision George Clooney Responds to Tom Cruise Covid-19 Speech: 'He Didn't Overreact' Though at the time of the release of “Batman & Robin” Clooney was hot off “ER,” which he starred in through 1999, the Batman film was meant to be his big break onto the big screen. Clooney sat down with Stern and his co-host Robin Quivers to discuss his new film “The Midnight Sky” on Netflix, among other wide-ranging topics. (Even though it made more than $238 million at the box office, albeit against a $160 million budget.)Ĭlooney recently reflected again on what a disaster the movie personally was for him during a new episode of “The Howard Stern Show” (via Deadline). George Clooney has long been vocal about his much derided brush with playing the Caped Crusader in Joel Schumacher’s “ Batman & Robin.” From the perhaps too anatomically correct Batsuit to the movie’s wild swings in tone, the 1997 sequel to “Batman Forever” is universally regarded as a flop.
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