And, in the comic books, the characters always looked like they were naked with spray paint on them - it was all about anatomy, and I like to push anatomy. It wasn’t fetish to me, it was more informed by Roman armor - like Centurions. "With Val Kilmer’s suit in Batman Forever, the nipples were one of those things that I added. Fernandez described how he was informed both by the armor worn by Roman Centurions and by the highly anatomical drawings found in comics, so he tried to combine the two in his design with no idea a controversy would follow.
First, Fernandez clarified that the suit's design was not inspired by fetish but by armor. Now, in an interview with MEL, Fernandez finally explained the inclusion of nipples on Kilmer's Batsuit. Related: Two-Face Might Have Survived Batman Forever: How This Makes Kilmer Betterįor many years, Schumacher took responsibility for the Batsuit's nipples in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, but he did credit Jose Fernandez for originally adding them to the design. The addition of nipples to the Batsuit was such a huge controversy at the time that even Batman creator Bob Kane objected to them, yet they reappeared even more pronounced in Batman & Robin on George Clooney's Batsuit. Some ridiculed Batman's perky nipples for being silly while some criticized them as obscene. Still, even with major tonal and visual changes, the most memorable additions to the Batman series in Batman Forever were the sculpted nipples added to Kilmer's Batsuit.
Tonally, the film had a lighter approach, and it dropped the gothic atmosphere from Burton's vision of Gotham for a more colorful world inspired by the 1960s Batman television series. The third installment saw Joel Schumacher replace Tim Burton as the series' director and Val Kilmer don the cowl as the Caped Crusader instead of Michael Keaton.Īlong with the personnel changes, Batman Forever took a different direction than the two preceding films in the series. Batman film series, following Batman and Batman Returns.
Batman Forever premiered in 1995 as the third installment in the Warner Bros. Jose Fernandez, the designer behind Val Kilmer's Batsuit in Batman Forever, finally explains the costume's infamous nipples.
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