Sam Hamm

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| name = Sam Hamm

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1955|11|19}}

| birth_place = Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.

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| occupation = Screenwriter, television producer

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Sam Hamm (born November 19, 1955) is an American screenwriter and comic book writer.{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/93264/Sam-Hamm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130061514/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/93264/Sam-Hamm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-30|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|title=Sam Hamm}} Hamm is known for writing the initial drafts of the screenplay for the 1989 Batman movie before those duties were handed over to Warren Skaaren.{{Cite web|url=https://comicsalliance.com/sam-hamm-interview-batman-89-tim-burton/|title = Screenwriter Sam Hamm Talks Batman '89 [Interview]| date=25 August 2014 }} He also received a story credit for Batman Returns (though the final version of the movie differs significantly from his ideas).{{Cite web|first=David |last=Crow |

date=December 1, 2019 |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/how-batman-ii-became-batman-returns/|title=How Batman II Became Batman Returns |website=Den of Geek}}

DC Comics invited Hamm to write for Detective Comics.{{cite book|last1 = Greenberger|first1 = Robert|author-link = Robert Greenberger|last2 = Manning| first2 = Matthew K.|title = The Batman Vault: A Museum-in-a-Book with Rare Collectibles from the Batcave|publisher = Running Press|year = 2009|isbn = 978-0-7624-3663-7|page= 41 |quote = In the pages of Detective Comics, Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm took advantage of that year's ongoing writers' strike to write a three-issue story entitled "Blind Justice", which culminated in that title's 600th issue.}} The result was Batman: Blind Justice, which introduced Bruce Wayne's mentor, Henri Ducard. Hamm's other screen credits include Never Cry Wolf and Monkeybone.

In 2021, Hamm returned to the 1989 Batman film universe with the limited DC Comics series Batman '89, a direct continuation of both the 1989 film and Batman Returns.{{Cite press release|url=https://www.dccomics.com/blog/2021/02/16/the-movie-worlds-of-superman-78-and-batman-89-are-heading-to-comics-in-two-all-new|title=The Movie Worlds of Superman '78 and Batman '89 Are Heading to Comics!|date=16 February 2021|publisher=DC Comics}} The creative team followed it up with Batman '89: Echoes.

Selected filmography

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scope="col" \| Year ! scope="col" \| Title ! scope="col" style="width: 4em;" \| Writer ! scope="col" style="width: 4em;" \| Executive producer
1983 ! scope="row" \| Never Cry Wolf \| {{yes}} \| {{no}}
1989 ! scope="row" \| Batman \| {{yes}} \| {{no}}
1992 ! scope="row" \| Batman Returns \| {{partial\|story by}} \| {{no}}
1994 ! scope="row" \| M.A.N.T.I.S. (TV series) \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}}
2001 ! scope="row" \| Monkeybone \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}}
2003 ! scope="row" \| Haunted Lighthouse (4-D short film) \| {{yes}} \| {{no}}
2005 ! scope="row" \| Masters of Horror: Homecoming (S1E6) \| {{yes}} \| {{no}}
2006 ! scope="row" \| Masters of Horror: The Screwfly Solution (S2E7) \| {{yes}} \| {{no}}

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scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" style="width: 4em;" | Writer

! scope="col" style="width: 4em;" | Executive producer

1983

! scope="row" | Never Cry Wolf

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

1989

! scope="row" | Batman

| {{yes}}