While foam latex is a wonderfully flexible material for productions, over time it can get brittle and fragile. The suit was made of foam latex which gave the look of the heavier armor but still allowed Kilmer to move they way the film required him to.

His take on the Batman universe was a bit of a departure from the darker style of the previous films directed by Tim Burton. They were added to the suit because the director and writer of the film, Joel Schumacher, wanted his version of the Batsuit to be more fitted and sexier. Val Kilmar’s Batsuit also called the Panther Batsuit is the first of the Batman films to feature the infamous “bat nipples”. Our client brought us this original Batman movie costume from the Batman Forever film, looking of a themed base to display it.

Fernandez recalled resisting, but eventually acknowledging, “He’s the boss, so we sharpened them, circled them, and it all became kind of ridiculous.Custom mannequin and themed display for an original Val Kilmer Batman movie costume. Schumacher became the biggest nipple backer, pushing for them to be even more pronounced in Batman & Robin. I had no idea there was going to end up being all this buzz about it.” I don’t know exactly where my head was at back in the day, but that’s what I remember. 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.

As Fernandez told Mel Magazineearlier this month, “It wasn’t fetish to me, it was more informed by Roman armor - like Centurions.

He collaborated on the Batnips with lead sculptor Jose Fernandez. I feel really fondly about because of the weird experiment that it felt like.”ĭirector Joel Schumacher took the reins for Batman Forever and Batman & Robin (1997), pushing the franchise in a much campier direction. That represents me in the sense that…that’s how I see things.

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