Waters spoke during a December 22 Los Angeles screening ofBatman Returnsat the Egyptian Theater.
And I wanted to make a Batman movie where the metaphor was about Batman.
It was The Boys before The Boys.
Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny De VitoWarner Bros./courtesy Everett Collection
But he got exhausted reading my script.
The films star, Michael Keaton, convinced Waters to trim the jibes.
[Michael] Keaton said, This is very clever.
Cut it, Waters recalled.
He and Burton didnt give a shot to be faithful to the original comic books.
It was a weird assignment in that I didnt need to c’mon anyone but Tim Burton.
We didnt know shit about Batman villains, Waters said.
We didnt really understand the whole comic book thing.
I just found out DC Comics stands for Detective Comics.
Youre already going off-road, Waters continued.
Now theres like 50 Batman movies, its like, Hey.
That was pretty interesting.
