Sam Hamm

Sam Hamm
Born (1955-11-19) November 19, 1955 (age 70)
Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
OccupationsScreenwriter, television producer

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

DC Comics invited Hamm to write for Detective Comics. 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. The series was followed by Batman '89: Echoes.

Selected filmography

Year Title Writer Executive producer
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

References

  1. ↑ "Sam Hamm". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  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.