{"id":10762,"date":"2020-06-22T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10762"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:04:41","slug":"joel-schumacher-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/06\/22\/joel-schumacher-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Schumacher Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/film\/news\/joel-schumacher-dead-dies-batman-director-1234644961\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Variety<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Joel Schumacher, Director of Batman Films and \u2018Lost Boys,\u2019 Dies at&nbsp;80<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/author\/carmel-dagan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carmel Dagan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/06\/joel-schumacher-3.jpg?w=681&amp;h=383&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Joel Schumacher Joel Schumacher, director of\"\/><figcaption>Matt Sayles\/AP\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/joel-schumacher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joel Schumacher<\/a>, costume designer-turned-director of films including \u201cSt. Elmo\u2019s Fire,\u201d \u201cThe Lost Boys\u201d and \u201cFalling Down,\u201d as well as two \u201cBatman\u201d films, died in New York City on Monday morning after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 80.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schumacher brought his fashion background to directing a run of stylish films throughout the 1980s and 1990s that were not always critically acclaimed, but continue to be well-loved by audiences for capturing the feel of the era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schumacher was handed the reins of the \u201cBatman\u201d franchise when Tim Burton exited Warner Bros.\u2019 Caped Crusader series after two enormously successful films. The first movie by Schumacher, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/batman-forever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Batman Forever<\/a>,\u201d starring Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey and Nicole Kidman, grossed more than $300 million worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schumacher\u2019s second and last film in the franchise was 1997\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/batman-and-robin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Batman and Robin<\/a>,\u201d with George Clooney as Batman and Arnold Schwarzenegger as villain Mr. Freeze. For \u201cBatman Forever,\u201d the openly gay Schumacher introduced nipples to the costumes worn by Batman and Robin, leaning into the longstanding latent homoeroticism between the two characters. (In 2006, Clooney told Barbara Walters that he had played Batman as gay.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/film\/news\/joel-schumacher-dead-dies-batman-director-1234644961\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Variety<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Variety Joel Schumacher, Director of Batman Films and \u2018Lost Boys,\u2019 Dies at&nbsp;80 By\u00a0Carmel Dagan Joel Schumacher, costume designer-turned-director of films including \u201cSt. Elmo\u2019s Fire,\u201d \u201cThe Lost Boys\u201d and \u201cFalling Down,\u201d as well as two \u201cBatman\u201d films, died in New York City on Monday morning after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 80. Schumacher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}