Mr Flibble Talks To... Penguin P-P-P-Pick-Ups
Mr Flibble doesn't restrict himself to one-on-one interviews, oh no. At an international celebrity gathering, the Flibster grabbed as many passing names as he could lay his flippers on for a quick chat...
1 November, 2000
Mr Flibble's Celebrity Pickups
Mr Flibble's right hand provided by
Andrew Ellard

Mr Flibble eavesdrops as the late great Batman creator is introduced to the director of The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Apocalypse Now...

FFC: What an honour to meet you. Batman was always my favourite. You know they originally came to me to do Batman.

BK: Well that would have been wonderful...

FFC: What I said to those guys, the one thing is that Batman is a dramatic thriller, it's not a funny show. And then they left and I got the message back, 'Well, they don't agree, they think it is a funny thing and not a dramatic thriller.' But I was happy to see Tim Burton [directing].

BK: He had kind of your vision...

FFC: He brought the dramatic thriller thing, which is what's great about it. A kid sees his family get murdered! What I love about Batman is that he was real - he was flying around through his ability, not through some magical thing.

BK: Did you like Batman Returns?

FFC: The film? I liked it. I think it was wonderful...

BK: Did you like the visuals? The dark, brooding...

FFC: I think Tim Burton's a really good director. A big movie's harder to make than a small movie, because there's so many forces. You got a good director, and thank God because if you didn't have him, it could have gone a lot of ways.

BK: I would have loved to have you on as director...

FFC: I don't know that I would have been as able to do as well. But it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm a real admirer. Congratulations on the enduring effect of your creation.

Bob and Francis signed autographs for each other - but Bob signing his to 'Francis Ford Coppala.'

FFC: C-O-P-P-O-L-A - just change that to an O. It's easier to spell K-A-N-E.

BK: Yeah. I'm glad it isn't Schwartzenegger!