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Uslan recounts being driven since childhood by a goal of bringing a serious, dark-knight Batman to the screen, teaching the first accredited college comics course at Indiana University in 1971, and training at DC Comics alongside Paul Levitz and Bob Rozakis before moving into entertainment law at United Artists. He and Melnicker describe the decade-long path from optioning the Batman rights in 1979 through repeated studio rejections to Tim Burton's involvement and the film's production beginning in October 1988. Both discuss their extensive slate of future projects including Batman II, Monopoly: The Movie, Swamp Thing TV series, and Fantastic Voyage II. A follow-up phone interview covers the state of Batman II planning, casting questions, and the marketing phenomenon of the first film.