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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman Mask of the Phantasm
"The Dark Knight fights to save Gotham City from its Deadliest Enemy."
Directed By Eric Radomski, Bruce Timm
Screenplay By Alan Burnett, Martin Pasko, Paul Dini, Michael Reaves
Cast Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Mark Hamill, Stacy Keach
Produced By Benjamin Melniker, Alan Burnett, Michael Uslan
Film Editing By Al Breitenbach
Music By Shirley Walker
Studio Warner Bros. Animation
Distributed By Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
Franchise DCAU Franchise
Country United States
Language English
Release Date December 25, 1993
Runtime 76 Minutes
Rating PG
Budget $6,000,000
Gross $5,617,391


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When someone begins killing criminals throughout Gotham City, suspicion immediately falls upon the Batman who finds himself up against the police and the gangs alike while he struggles to investigate the true culprit, a mysterious vigilante known as the Phantasm before he kills again!

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Thanks to the Batman: The Animated Series first season's rave reviews and impressive viewer ratings, Warner Bros. made the decision to push for a full-length animated movie and placed Alan Burnett in charge. Burnett decided to create what was essentially, an expanded animated episode and was inspired to use Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" to depict a show about loss and the passage of time itself in showing the present day Batman and his past self of Bruce Wayne's lost love. Further, Burnett made the choice of deliberating minimizing the presence of Batman's normal rogues gallery and turned the Joker into a supporting character in the movie rather than the main villain.

Shortly after the finalization of the script, Warner Bros. made the decision to release Batman: Mask of the Phantasm as a theatrical release instead of the simple direct-to-video which resulted in the overseas animators to having to redo numerous scenes in order to accommodate the different screen aspects of a theatrical screen and a television screen and also forced them to rush through production in order to make the revised timetable.

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