Michael E. Uslan had been struggling to get the film off the ground for well over a decade before production began. When he first got the rights to Batman he pitched the film to Columbia Pictures, who turned it down based on the financial disappointment of Robin e Marian (1976), a film about an aging Robin Hood coming out of retirement for one last adventure. Despite that film's positive critical reception it was a box office disappointment and convinced Columbia that audiences didn't want to see a serious and darker take on a classic hero. Uslan would try them again several years later, after the successes of the first two Superman movies, only for them to turn him down once again due to the film Annie (1982)'s box office success had been outweighed by its enormous budget. When Uslan asked a Columbia studio head what Batman had to do with Annie, said executive replied that both characters were from comics so Batman would have no better chance at success than Annie would.

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