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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]
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.
Year | Title | Writer | Executive producer |
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1983 | Never Cry Wolf | Yes | No |
1989 | Batman | Yes | No |
1992 | Batman Returns | Story | No |
1994 | M.A.N.T.I.S. (TV series) | Yes | Yes |
2001 | Monkeybone | Yes | Yes |
2003 | Haunted Lighthouse (4-D short film) | Yes | No |
2005 | Masters of Horror: Homecoming (S1E6) | Yes | No |
2006 | Masters of Horror: The Screwfly Solution (S2E7) | Yes | No |
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.