In an interview with fansite 1989Batman.com, the shorts director Andrew Gillman admits that Warner Bros. found itself in a difficult situation after taking on the new Batman project. Warner Brothers had found themselves in a very difficult situation at the time. The marketing director at Warner told me that Adam West had been going to various media outlets stating that he should be Batman, that his Batman was the only true Batman, and that this dark thing that Warner was doing had nothing to do with Batman at all.