The difference is immediately clear, since Batman Forever normally starts with Batman in a hostage situation with an already-escaped (and fully-realized) supervillain in Two-Face, whose presence is designed to accommodate the tragic origin story of O’Donnell’s Dick Grayson/Robin, and provide a wacky foil for Carrey’s disturbed and disregarded Wayne Enterprises researcher, Edward Nygma, in his rapid transformation into the Riddler.

The bulk of this version’s runtime focuses on the emotional and psychological issues that led Bruce Wayne to decide to become Batman, including a sequence of Wayne facing down a giant, human-sized bat.”

“This version opens with a sequence involving the villain Two-Face escaping from Arkham Asylum, and features extended scenes with the Riddler when he invades the Batcave and uses his signature cane as a weapon. Thusly, the report reveals that the extra 49 minutes notably expands screen time for the two villains. The 1995 film stands as Val Kilmer’s lone onscreen tenure in the cape and cowl (enhanced by a nipples-laden bat-suit), joined by Chris O’Donnell as Robin and Nicole Kidman as love interest Chase Meridian, opposite an ostentatious rogues gallery of Jim Carrey’s Riddler and Tommy Lee Jones’s Two-Face. Yet, while the theatrical version of the 1995 third film in the Batman franchise-unlike Justice League-did reflect the vision of its director, the recently-departed Joel Schumacher, it seems that a darker and much (much) longer version exists.Ĭiting a source close to the movie, Variety has confirmed the existence of a mega-sized 170-minute cut of Schumacher’s Batman Forever, which starkly contrasts with the standard theatrical version we all know, which runs at 121 minutes. Batman Forever has surprisingly entered the extended cut conversation recently fueled by HBO Max’s upcoming release of director Zack Snyder’s originally-envisioned version of 2017’s Justice League, a.k.a.

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