Sam Hamm

Name	Sam Hamm
Birth Date	1955-11-19
Birth Place	Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Screenwriter, television producer

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

DC Comics invited Hamm to write for Detective Comics. 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. The series was followed by Batman '89: Echoes.

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Writer	Executive producer
1983	Never Cry Wolf
1989	Batman
1992	Batman Returns
1994	M.A.N.T.I.S. (TV series)
2001	Monkeybone
2003	Haunted Lighthouse (4-D short film)
2005	Masters of Horror: Homecoming (S1E6)
2006	Masters of Horror: The Screwfly Solution (S2E7)

References

dead, 2013-01-30, Movies & TV Dept., The New York Times, Sam Hamm
Screenwriter Sam Hamm Talks Batman '89 [Interview], 25 August 2014
David, Crow, December 1, 2019, How Batman II Became Batman Returns, Den of Geek
Greenberger, Robert, Robert Greenberger, Manning, Matthew K., The Batman Vault: A Museum-in-a-Book with Rare Collectibles from the Batcave, Running Press, 2009, 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.
The Movie Worlds of Superman '78 and Batman '89 Are Heading to Comics!, 16 February 2021, DC Comics

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Selected filmography

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