Joel Schumacher, the director of two Batman and Lost Generation , died of cancer at the age of 80, his communications officials said on Monday. The man who started his career as a costume designer before becoming a big name in Hollywood died "peacefully" in New York "after a year of fighting cancer". After this announcement, many Hollywood stars paid tribute to him.
Jim Carrey praised a man on Twitter who "saw deeper things in [him] than most people and [who] lived a wonderfully creative and heroic life". "I am grateful to have had him as a friend," he concluded.
"The funniest, the most chic and the most hilarious"
Minnie Driver, who starred in The Phantom of the Opera , directed by Joel Schumacher, paid tribute to "the funniest, the most chic and the most hilarious director" with whom she worked. “Once, on the set, an actress complained about me; that I was a little too much (I was) Joel barely looked up from his New York Times and said "Oh honey, no one ever paid to see someone who isn't [game of words "over the top" / "under the top"] ”, she said on the social network.
Several American directors have also tweeted about it, as well as Gilles Jacob, former president of the Cannes festival.
Along with everything else in his career, Joel Schumacher was the costume designer on The Last Of Shiela. Legend. pic.twitter.com/dWsBCUhZeo
- Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) June 22, 2020Joel Schumacher had a hell of a run. Costumes on The Last Of Sheila & Sleeper. Writer of Car Wash & The Wiz. Director of iconic 80's 90's pop hits; St Elmo's Fire, Lost Boys, Flatliners, way too many other smashes to fit here plus the prescient Fallling Down. RIP Sir. Good work! pic.twitter.com/09ASEUJ6WS
- edgarwright (@edgarwright) June 22, 2020Cinema
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