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Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker and animator. He is known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Dark Shadows (2012), as well as the television series Wednesday (2022). Burton also directed the superhero films Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), the sci-fi film Planet of the Apes (2001), the fantasy-drama Big Fish (2003), the musical adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and the fantasy films Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016). Burton has often worked with actors Winona Ryder, Johnny Depp, Lisa Marie (former girlfriend), Helena Bonham Carter (his former domestic partner) and composer Danny Elfman, who scored all but three of Burton's films. Burton also wrote and illustrated the poetry book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, published in 1997 by British publishing house Faber and Faber, and a compilation of his drawings, sketches, and other artwork, entitled The Art of Tim Burton, was released in 2009. A follow-up to that book, entitled The Napkin Art of Tim Burton: Things You Think About in a Bar, containing sketches made by Burton on napkins at bars and restaurants he visited, was released in 2015. His accolades include nominations for two Academy Awards and three BAFTA Awards, and wins for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Some years after the events of Batman and Robin, Bruce Wayne has retired from his life as Batman. Dick Grayson is also retired as a superhero and is studying at the Gotham City College. However, one of the collage professors, Johnathan Crane, is using the universities resources to perfect a toxin that will be able to manipulate peoples' emotions giving them uncontrollable fear. One night, he enlists the help of a fellow scientist, Doctor Kirk Langstrom, to help him experiment with his toxin. The experiment goes wrong and Langstrom is instead mutated into the terrifying monster, Man-Bat. Langstrom goes on a rampage, killing people in Gotham and is mistaken for Batman returned as a murderer. Hearing about the killings on the news, Bruce Wayne is forced to become Batman again and bring down Man-Bat. Meanwhile, Johnathan Crane takes advantage of the chaos caused by Man-Bat and uses his, now perfected, fear toxin to become the supervillain Scarecrow, using his new fear gas as a weapon.
