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Costs, Pinewood secrecy, Palance clash, makeup time, body count, Aspen horseback ride
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- The Batman suit reportedly cost $250,000 and the 38-foot cathedral $100,000; filming at Pinewood Studios in England kept Nicholson’s Joker secret.
- Palance reportedly had a hearing problem; after Burton cut a take he missed, Palance boasted of making over 100 films, and Burton later called it a scarring experience.
- Nicholson’s Joker makeup took two hours, and Keaton reportedly recalls that basketball games were taped on VHS for him to watch in the chair.
- The film has 56 dead bodies.
- To win over Nicholson, Burton was taken horseback riding with him in Aspen despite not riding horses.