Director Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys, Batman Forever, St. Elmo’s Fire) dead at 80

Director Joel Schumacher has died at 80 after a long bout with cancer.

Schumacher is best known for directing the horror classic The Lost Boys, and for helming both the Batman Forever and Batman & Robin films. Schumacher was also behind films including St. Elmo’s Fire, Falling Down, Flatliners, The Client, and many more. Schumacher also wrote the 1976 Richard Pryor comedy Car Wash, adaptations of The Wiz and Phantom of the Opera, and pulled double duty on films like St. Elmo’s Fire, which he wrote and directed.

While his Batman films were mostly derided, films like The Lost Boys and Falling Down have become touchstones for generations of filmmakers, and his distinctly flashy filmmaking style was a Hollywood mainstay throughout the 80s and 90s. And given that he recently boasted of sleeping with over 20,000 people over the years, it sure sounds like it was a life well-lived.