Following five decades in Hollywood, Michael Keaton is still perhaps best known for playing Batman, Gotham’s brooding billionaire superhero. After taking the role in 1989’s Batman and 1992’s Batman Returns, Keaton is set to revive his Caped Crusader for DC’s The Flash. No one was more surprised by his return than Keaton—who has largely dodged the superhero genre ever since. “After the first Batman, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an entire [comic book] movie,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “I just never got around to it. So you’re talking to a guy who wasn’t in the zeitgeist of that whole world.”
While Keaton may not consume comic book movies, he’s been enticed to star as both a villain for Marvel’s Spider-Man films and hero for DC. Both roles arrived decades after the 69-year-old famously turned down a third Batman film in 1995. (“I just don’t think I can do this without blowing my brains out,” Keaton later remembered thinking of Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever, which eventually starred Val Kilmer.) “Frankly, in the back of my head, I always thought, ‘I bet I could go back and nail that motherfucker,’” Keaton told THR of reprising Batman. “And so I thought, ‘Well, now that they’re asking me, let me see if I can pull that off.’”
Keaton’s return to Gotham will play out in The Flash, directed by Andy Muschietti (It), and written by Christina Hodson (Birds of Prey). In it, Ezra Miller’s titular superhero enters parallel universes, which include both Keaton and Ben Affleck’s Batman iterations. “I had to read it more than three times to go, ‘Wait, how does this work?’ ” Keaton said of the dimension-hopping script. “They had to explain that to me several times.”
Once he digested the plot, it was time to don that signature batsuit. “What’s really interesting is how much more I got [Batman] when I went back and did him,” Keaton explained. “I get this on a whole other level now. I totally respect it. I respect what people are trying to make. I never looked at it like, ‘Oh, this is just a silly thing.’ It was not a silly thing when I did Batman. But it has become a giant thing, culturally. It’s iconic. So I have even more respect for it because what do I know? This is a big deal in the world to people. You’ve got to honor that and be respectful of that. Even I go, ‘Jesus, this is huge.’”
Keaton credits Tim Burton, who directed both of his previous Batman films, with launching Hollywood’s comic book era. “What Tim did changed everything,” he told the outlet. “Everything you see now started with him. If you really think about what happened between 1989 and now, on a cultural, corporate, economic level, it’s unbelievable.” Case in point: the proliferation of Marvel productions in Atlanta, according to Keaton. “It’s an entire city dedicated to Marvel,” he said, adding, “They’ll be doing Marvel movies forever. I’ll be dead, and they’ll still be doing Marvel movies.” Dead or alive—one shouldn’t count on Keaton to see any of them.
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