I don’t know, I feel like Squirrel Boy could benefit from Tim Burton’s gothic and eccentric touch.
When he was working on Batman, Superman, played by Christopher Reeve, was the only superhero who’d experienced any major success leading full-length theatrical movies.
In all seriousness, Burton does have a point.
This genre was largely untapped, and since Burton’s Batman movie was pulling from the character’s darker roots rather than replicating the formula of the Batman TV series, that allowed him to take more creative liberties.