Twenty years before superhero movies dominated pop culture, directorTim Burtonmade a breakthrough with his 1989Batmanmovie.
But he shrugs off the Joker comparisons.
“Do you feel your costume glorifies a dangerous criminal?”

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the journalist asks, to which he replies, “Who said that?”
and later simply, “Oh.”
A representative for DC did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.

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