Joel Schumacher: Director of The Lost Boys and two Batman films dies

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) – Hollywood director Joel Schumacher, whose films included St Elmo’s Fire, The Lost Boys and Flatliners, has died at the age of 80.

The filmmaker was behind a string of big budget films in the 1980s and 1990s, including The Client and A Time to Kill, as well as two Batman sequels.

Star Trek writer and producer Bryan Fuller and director Kevin Smith were among the first to pay tribute.

“He couldn’t have been nicer or more hospitable,” Smith tweeted.

“I distinctly remember feeling hopeful when I learned he was gay and out and that there may be a place for me yet,” wrote Fuller.

Kiefer Sutherland, who starred in The Lost Boys, tweeted that Schumacher’s “joy, spirit and talent will live on”.