With Keaton now in his sixties, most would probably think his Batman days are behind him, but the actor said he would be willing to play the character again under one condition. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Keaton said, “If it was Tim Burton directing? In a heartbeat. Tim, in the movies, really invented the whole dark-superhero thing. He started everything, and some of the guys who have done these movies since then don’t say that, and they’re wrong.”
As far as why he didn’t sign on for a third Batman movie back in the day, Keaton explained, “I hadn’t been stupid about it. I always knew it was a big machine with a big studio and corporation behind it. But the simple answer was, it wasn’t any good. I was nice. I said to them, ‘This is a really interesting character with a dual personality.’ I tried to make them understand. But when somebody says to you, ‘Does it have to be so dark?... I thought, are we talking about the same character? So finally I just said no.”