🎞️: Warner Bros. teaser for Tim Burton’s 1989 film “Batman”, December 1988. This June marks the 34th anniversary of the release of Tim Burton’s “Batman”. After fans and critics alike were concerned about the casting choices of both Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne’s Batman and Jack Nicholson as Jack Napier aka The Joker, Warner Bros. decided in late 1988 to rush a trailer which played in theaters to give audiences a look at their dark and brooding big screen Batman and the Gotham City he protects.