Well see Joel Schumacher is a gay man, one who’s claimed to have had thousands of partners and considers that pretty normal of the gay community (his words). So the creative direction in his two movies were pretty out of the closet. I think its weird to have done that for a movie he also acknowledged was made purely for kids, but this is also Hollywood so not too out of the ordinary. However he did direct one of the greatest man-on-the-edge movies ever; Falling Down, and deserves that recognition because it wasn’t gay, but that’s probably because it wasn’t aimed at kids.