Sam Hamm

Sam Hamm (born November 19, 1955) is an American screenwriter and comic book writer.^[1] Hamm is known for writing the initial drafts of the screenplay for the 1989 Batman movie before those duties were handed over to Warren Skaaren.^[2] He also received a story credit for Batman Returns (though the final version of the movie differs significantly from his ideas).^[3]

Sam Hamm
Born	(1955-11-19) November 19, 1955 (age 69) Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter, television producer

DC Comics invited Hamm to write for Detective Comics.^[4] 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.^[5] The creative team followed it up with Batman '89: Echoes.

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Writer	Executive producer
1983	Never Cry Wolf	Yes	No
1989	Batman	Yes	No
1992	Batman Returns	story by	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. Archived from the original on 2013-01-30.
2. "Screenwriter Sam Hamm Talks Batman '89 [Interview]".
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.

External links

• Sam Hamm at IMDb