Sam Hamm

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Sam Hamm
Born (1955-11-19) November 19, 1955 (age 69)
Occupation(s) Screenwriter, television producer

Sam Hamm (born November 19, 1955) is an American screenwriter and comic book writer. [1] Hamm is known for writing the initial drafts of the screenplay for the 1989 Batman movie before those duties were handed over to Warren Skaaren. [2] He also received a story credit for Batman Returns (though the final version of the movie differs significantly from his ideas). [3]

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DC Comics invited Hamm to write for Detective Comics . [4] The result was Batman: Blind Justice, which introduced Bruce Wayne's mentor, Henri Ducard. Hamm's other screen credits include Never Cry Wolf and Monkeybone .

In 2021, Hamm returned to the 1989 Batman film universe with the limited DC Comics series Batman '89 , a direct continuation of both the 1989 film and Batman Returns. [5] The creative team followed it up with Batman '89: Echoes.

Selected filmography

YearTitleWriterExecutive producer
1983 Never Cry Wolf YesNo
1989 Batman YesNo
1992 Batman Returns StoryNo
1994 M.A.N.T.I.S. (TV series)YesYes
2001 Monkeybone YesYes
2003 Haunted Lighthouse (4-D short film)YesNo
2005 Masters of Horror: Homecoming (S1E6)YesNo
2006 Masters of Horror: The Screwfly Solution (S2E7)YesNo

References

  1. "Sam Hamm". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on 2013-01-30.
  2. "Screenwriter Sam Hamm Talks Batman '89 [Interview]". 25 August 2014.
  3. Crow, David (December 1, 2019). "How Batman II Became Batman Returns". Den of Geek .
  4. Greenberger, Robert; Manning, Matthew K. (2009). The Batman Vault: A Museum-in-a-Book with Rare Collectibles from the Batcave. Running Press. p. 41. ISBN   978-0-7624-3663-7. In the pages of Detective Comics, Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm took advantage of that year's ongoing writers' strike to write a three-issue story entitled "Blind Justice", which culminated in that title's 600th issue.
  5. "The Movie Worlds of Superman '78 and Batman '89 Are Heading to Comics!" (Press release). DC Comics. 16 February 2021.