Makeup effects artist Tony Gardner, who also cameos in the film as the Lizard Man in the carnival Freak Show sequence, designed and created the makeup effects required to turn Neeson into Darkman. It was produced by Robert Tapert, and was written by Raimi, his brother Ivan, Chuck Pfarrer, and brothers Daniel and Joshua Goldin. Unable to secure the rights to The Shadow, Raimi decided to create his own superhero and struck a deal with Universal Studios to make his first Hollywood studio film. Consumed with vengeance, he decides to hunt down those who disfigured him. After a treatment to cure him of his burn injuries fails, Westlake develops super-human abilities, which also have the unintended side-effect of rendering him mentally unstable and borderline psychotic. Based on a short story Raimi wrote that paid homage to Universal's horror films of the 1930s, the film stars Liam Neeson as scientist Peyton Westlake, who is brutally attacked, disfigured, and left for dead by ruthless mobster Robert Durant ( Larry Drake), after his girlfriend, attorney Julie Hastings ( Frances McDormand), runs afoul of corrupt developer Louis Strack Jr. Darkman is a 1990 American superhero film directed and co-written by Sam Raimi.
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