Here, a mad bomber destroys much of Gotham City, revealing that Furst’s designs had been there all along. “In my mind, it was sort of like what if the 1939 World’s Fair had gone on another ...

The famed gothic charm that Tim Burton forever brings to his work made him the perfect fit to tackle Gotham City in his pair of Batman pictures in 1989 and 1992. Bringing in Anton Furst to oversee ...

The sequel had to have a rich artistic basis to be able to compete, but Anton Furst had tragically taken his own life in 1991. Apparently, at the time, he was in talks to reprise his role as ...

The Comics Arguably, Burton's movie didn't influence the comics directly as much as give them even more reason to pursue the dark, Frank Miller route they ...

Burton's Gotham. Inside Cinema Shorts. How director Tim Burton and production designer Anton Furst created Batman's moody metropolis in a Buckinghamshire backlot, ...

(Encore on Comcast) It’s not perfect — for one thing, there’s not enough Batman and too much Joker — but its brilliant visual style makes it unforgettable. Director Tim Burton and ...