Filmmaker, dead at 80, faced cancer and is responsible for the successes of the 1980s and 1990s
Filmmaker Joel Schumacher died at the age of 80 on Monday (22). The death of the artist, who suffered from cancer, was reported on the website of Variety magazine.
The New Yorker, who became famous for directing the films “Batman Eternamente”, from 1995, and “Batman e Robin“, from 1997, started his career as a costume designer and then made the transition to directing. In the 1980s, he gained success with features such as “The First Year of the Rest of Our Lives”, 1985, and “The Lost Boys”, 1987, classic teenage vampire with Corey Haim, Corey Feldman and Kiefer Sutherland.
Schumacher signed the thriller “Flatliners”, from 1990, remade three years ago as “Beyond Death”; and the 1993 action thriller “A Day of Fury”, with Michael Douglas playing a peaceful man who makes a violent crusade against social injustices.
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