(Additional dialogue was added to the screenplay by novelist James Hilton and Robert Benchley and over a dozen other uncredited scriptwriters.With a domestic box-office gross of $107.3 million and only $238 million worldwide, from a production budget of $125 million.Batman Forever (1995)d.Joel Schumacher, (Tim Burton: producer), 121 minutesFilm Plot SummaryThe hyper-active film opened with Batman (Val Kilmer) leaving his Bat-Cave in his Bat-mobile when signaled, and arriving in Gotham City, where a 2nd Bank of Gotham robbery was taking place in a high-rise skyscraper.2 million (domestically), from a budget of only $35 million.Comic book fans sent thousands (50,000) of letters o Warner Bros.to protest Michael Keaton""s casting as Batman.Jack Nicholson, portraying the Batman""s arch-enemy he Joker in Tim Burton""s comic-book blockbuster, took a stake in he film""s profits (and merchandising).As a point of reference, it rivaled he scene of the monolith""s emergence to the strains of composer Richard Strauss"" "Thus Spake Zarathustra" inKubrick""s2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).