Director Tim Burton, fresh off directing Beetlejuice (1988) and Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985), was given the task of bringing Batman to the big screen. Until 1989, most non-comic-book-reading people knew batman as the Caped Crusader portrayed on the cheesy 1960s serial starring Adam West and Burt Ward or as a member of the animated Super Friends. Synopsis of both films : In a crime-ridden major metropolitan city, only one masked hero – with a really cool car – can keep the city safe from a criminal mastermind. Original Film : Batman, 1989, starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson, directed by Tim BurtonĬopycat : Black Scorpion, 1995, starring Joan Severance and Garrett Morris, directed by Jonathan Winfrey Some of these copycats are good enough (or strange enough) to earn their place in action movie history, but most are being chronicled here to preserve their existence – for better or for worse. Each column, we take a popular action movie and find its cinematic doppelganger, revel in their similarities and dissect their differences. RoboVampire )Ĭopycats is a bimonthly column about popular action movies and the low-budget films they inspire.
We have ourselves another ultimate showdown between Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) and the B-movie rip-off Black Scorpion (1995) in this edition of COPYCATS! (Check out past episodes on Lethal Weapon vs LA Vice, The Fugitive vs. Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) takes on its ultimate COPYCAT Black Scorpion (1995)!
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