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Podcast: Film Stories with Simon Brew
Episode: Batman Returns (1992) and Backdraft (1991)
Description: In the latest episode of Film Stories, a deeper dig into 1992's Batman Returns, and how 1991's firefighter drama Backdraft suddenly hotted up.With Batman Returns, director Tim Burton had no original intention of coming back, after the problems he'd been through on 1989's Batman. But promised a freer hand, he signed on the dotted line - and it'd be fair to say didn't quite give Warner Bros the film it expected or wanted.Backdraft wasn't quite as dramatic a story, but it did go from a relatively small drama to something a...