The James Altucher Show: EP 831: BATMAN!
The year is 1979, a 20 something years old Michael Uslan walked into the DC comic's office, ignored all the naysayers, and say, let me buy the right to Batman. And after 10 something years of persistance and rejection, he finally brought Batman onto the big screen, and the rest is history!
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When Michael Uslan was in his 20s, he walked into the office of the CEO of DC Comics and, without any money, experience, connections, etc he bought the rights to "Batman" to make a movie out of it. Nobody else was interested! This was in the late 70s.
It took him ten years and rejections from the entire industry before the Batman movie was made. He was broke and frustrated and almost gave up but finally started working with Tim Burton, who was excited about the movie, and they made the 1989 classic.
Since then, he's been the producer of all the Batman movies including the one that came out last weekend. And he's produced many other movies and has been involved in many other projects.
Here's what I learned by talking to him on my podcast.
It took him ten years and rejections from the entire industry before the Batman movie was made. He was broke and frustrated and almost gave up but finally started working with Tim Burton, who was excited about the movie, and they made the 1989 classic.
Since then, he's been the producer of all the Batman movies including the one that came out last weekend. And he's produced many other movies and has been involved in many other projects.
Here's what I learned by talking to him on my podcast.
1. Passion
What did you love as a kid? Are there ways to pursue it as an adult. Michael wasn't going to become a superhero but because he knew specifically what he loved about Batman (the darkness of the original stories) he had a vision of how this could be a great movie franchise when everyone thought the Batman character was dead after the 1960s campy TV series.
In almost anything in life, you will have some competition. And the one with passion will beat the one without it. Additionally, passion gives you that extra energy that makes you stick with it rather than giving up when all seems lost.
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