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Marvel: 'Batman & Robin was important film'
Published Wednesday, Oct 21 2009, 16:10 BST | By Tim Parks
Rex Features
The 1997 film, which was directed by Joel Schumacher and starred George Clooney as the Caped Crusader, was widely panned by critics and fans. The franchise went on an eight-year hiatus before director Christopher Nolan rebooted the series with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.
However, the studio head has insisted that the film should be applauded for being "so bad", the Los Angeles Times reports.
He said: "That may be the most important comic book movie ever made. It was so bad that it demanded a new way of doing things.
"It created the opportunity to do X-Men and Spider-Man adaptations that respected the source material and adaptations that were not campy."
The film's writer Akiva Goldsman admitted that it was flawed, saying: "What got lost in Batman & Robin is the emotions aren't real. The worst thing to do with a serious comic book is to make it a cartoon. I'm still answering for that movie with some people."
Goldsman was recently confirmed to reboot Marvel's Fantastic Four series for 20th Century Fox.
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