{"id":249260,"date":"2026-01-24T08:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/249260\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T08:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:32:06","slug":"cmon-let-sam-raimi-make-a-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/249260\/","title":{"rendered":"C’mon, let Sam Raimi make a Batman"},"content":{"rendered":"

It can be weird to think about this, in the wake of the rise, and then the sort of listless, still-pretty-profitable dead man\u2019s float of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but superhero movies were once passion projects, of the sort pushed for largely by Hollywood weirdos who\u2019d managed to get hold of some measure of unexpected clout. Sam Raimi\u2019s Spider-Man\u00a0movies weren\u2019t\u00a0quite\u00a0as individualistic as, say, Tim Burton\u2019s 1989\u00a0Batman, but they still showed off both Raimi\u2019s passion for the character, and his taste for stylistic flair; even his middling Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness<\/a>, made 20 years later, and from within the well-polished Marvel machine, was able to smuggle some of that old-school Raimi feel into itself at its margins.<\/p>\n

All of which leads us to ask a simple question: Dear Hollywood, won\u2019t you let Sam Raimi make a Batman?<\/p>\n

This plea courtesy of an interview Raimi gave to\u00a0Movieweb\u00a0this week<\/a>, attached to his new thriller Send Help. The\u00a0Evil Dead\u00a0mastermind was asked what other superhero movie brands he\u2019d like to tackle, and he was not shy about laying out a wishlist that we can\u2019t help but imagine he was hoping might get forwarded to James Gunn\u2019s desk over at DC Studios:<\/p>\n

I love Batman. I tried to make a Batman film. I couldn\u2019t get the rights. I love The Shadow. I also couldn\u2019t get the rights to that one. But, um, Superman\u2019s always been one of my favorites. Yeah, there\u2019s a tremendous amount of DC characters that I love, and it would just take the writers to come up with an original story based on their character, that\u2019s true to the character and part of their real universe, not something that disappoints the fans, but something that\u2019s based on the fans love of the character and brings out the best moment of those characters and their proper conflicts, or the right challenges for the right hero. If it was a story that had a real journey for that particular individual. Then I\u2019d love to make the movie.<\/p>\n

Superman is, of course, pretty busy at the moment, and we\u2019re not sure Hollywood is necessarily beating down the door to get another\u00a0Shadow\u00a0movie made. But the last time Hollywood passed on a Raimi Bat-pitch<\/a>, we ended up with the entertaining, but also extremely divisive, Joel Schumacher movies; what\u2019s the worst thing that happens this time if you finally let Raimi take a crack at the Dark Knight, James?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It can be weird to think about this, in the wake of the rise, and then the sort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-249260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}