Prince’s ‘Batman’ at 30: How the Film Saved His Career From ‘Horrible’ Financial Straits

’s manager during its development and recording, the release fulfilled a number of competing goals — financial, artistic and personal — that were weighing on the hard-working but notoriously idiosyncratic performer at the time.“Prince was at a crossroads,” Magnoli tells Variety. “The ‘Batman’ album afforded us the opportunity to do art and commerce and allow the artist Prince to forge on. This was a perfect opportunity and a perfect vehicle in which he could express himself creatively.

Having witnessed Prince’s prodigious output of songs for the “Purple Rain” soundtrack, Magnoli saw the record as an opportunity to focus the artist’s creativity, to satisfy the terms of his contract with Warner Bros. Records, and bolster his commercial viability with a release whose visibility would be amplified by a high-profile movie he would not have to promote himself. “I said, ‘This will be a way for you to creatively go to work.

According to Magnoli, Burton then brought a rough cut of the film to Prince’s Minneapolis studio for the three of them to watch, leaving the tape behind for inspiration. Little did the “Batman” director know just how helpful his raw footage would be; Prince, who was exploring audio samplers at the time, borrowed heavily from the available material — including production sound that wasn’t yet polished, or replaced, with ADR — for the album’s eventual nine songs.

“He said, ‘Do you want me to edit it?’ And I said, ‘Cut it in half and give me a shorter version, but I’m going to get Warner Brothers to approve this six-minute version to go out with the video we make.’” Magnoli was tasked with directing the music videos for three of the singles — “Batdance,” “Partyman” and “Scandalous” — and he and Prince developed visuals that would combine the iconography of Batman with Prince’s work. “Batman is a conflicted individual, both good and evil,” he observes. “Why does he dress up like that? Why does he fight at night? One of the great parts of our creative relationship was that we talked about stuff.

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