MICHAEL KEATON RETURNS (or at least in discussion) AS BATMAN

[Milk Tray Guy]

Adam West's Batmobile is my #1, but the Burton-mobile is a pretty close #2!

 

[Iceman]

I’d love to see it. That thing would look crazy now after the more realistic tank versions we’ve had.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Do you think Batman would have kept it looking the same all these years, that he wouldn't have modernised it? By rights, it should be in a museum by now!

 

[Vaibow]

No reason why he doesn't just fix it each time and knowing that Bruce, he probably has an attachment to it..
He may have other rides... but keeps that stored away...

 

[Vaibow]

THE BATWING

 

[Wheels]

The new Keaton Batmobile still must feel like an evolution of the old one. Gotta be Burton-y in nature I think.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

No reason why he doesn't just fix it each time and knowing that Bruce, he probably has an attachment to it..
He may have other rides... but keeps that stored away...

Maybe they could have a scene like the one in Skyfall when Bond retrieves his old Aston from that lockup

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

The reports specifically said it would be the Batman from the Burtonverse. Also, I’ll be completely shocked if he doesn’t appear in costume in this since I’m sure they want to sell a ton of merchandise.

Absolutely!

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Micheal Keaton's ‘Batman’ to Become the Nick Fury of the DC Movie Universe?

... the DCEU has already established the existence of the multiverse, of which every DC live-action TV show and movie ever made is a part.

What that means is the DCEU already has a continuity that allows for multiple iterations of the same character. That means Keaton's, Ben Affleck's, and Robert Pattinson's Batman all technically exist in the same massive, multiversal reality, and can cross over into each other's world.

I'm assuming they're actually talking about the CW's Crisis on Infinite Earths there and the various movie connections contained in that.

 

[Wheels]

As enthusiastic as I am about this, I'd be remissed if I didn't point out how much WB leans on Batman too much. Flashpoint could just be dominated by Batman just like BvS. It's surprising WB actually made movies like Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Shazam without Bats. They certainly didn't trust the idea of a MOS sequel.

WB's bailing Miller out with this Keaton news too.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

There’s 30 years worth of stories that could be told for Keaton’s Batman since Batman Returns

Hopefully we get comics and maybe even animated movies that will fill in those 30 years. Perfect chance to bring back Burton and do an animated adaption of what could have been his Batman Forever

 

[Wheels]

Stop motion, right?

It's gotta be stop motion.

 

[Cain]

I'd rather an actual Batman Beyond who could also serve as a Batman for the Justice League going forward. Make it Tim Drake even if you have to but save Batgirl and Grayson for the Matt Reeves movies.

I could see Burton's Batman being very much like Kingdom Come Bruce in his old age. Even down to having Bat drones patrolling the city. To be honest I'd have rather have had Affleck's version continue in Justice League movies after the Snyder cut. Even if recast with Jon Hamm or whoever. Because I cannot see Pattinson's Batman fitting into that role at all and prefer he stays in his own bubble.

I really wanted to see the JDM Thomas Wayne Batman facing his warped wife The Joker. A big chunk of my posts on this site are about my love and admiration for Keaton's Batman so I'll roll with it. But this is definitely pandering at the same time I've ALWAYS been for the multiverse on the big screen so I can't be a hypocrite. Just thinking of Veteran Bruce sonning Cavill's Superman or Momoa's Aquaman and flirting with Wonder Woman kinda puts a smile on my face. Please please please bring back Pfeiffer even as just a cameo.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

I really wanted to see the JDM Thomas Wayne Batman facing his warped wife The Joker.

I wanted that so much.

Just thinking of Veteran Bruce sonning Cavill's Superman or Momoa's Aquaman and flirting with Wonder Woman kinda puts a smile on my face. Please please please bring back Pfeiffer even as just a cameo.

God, I so wanna see Keaton flirting with Gadot And yes, bring back Pfeiffer!

 

[Wheels]

I'd rather an actual Batman Beyond who could also serve as a Batman for the Justice League going forward. Make it Tim Drake even if you have to but save Batgirl and Grayson for the Matt Reeves movies.

I could see Burton's Batman being very much like Kingdom Come Bruce in his old age. Even down to having Bat drones patrolling the city. To be honest I'd have rather have had Affleck's version continue in Justice League movies after the Snyder cut. Even if recast with Jon Hamm or whoever. Because I cannot see Pattinson's Batman fitting into that role at all and prefer he stays in his own bubble.

I really wanted to see the JDM Thomas Wayne Batman facing his warped wife The Joker. A big chunk of my posts on this site are about my love and admiration for Keaton's Batman so I'll roll with it. But this is definitely pandering at the same time I've ALWAYS been for the multiverse on the big screen so I can't be a hypocrite. Just thinking of Veteran Bruce sonning Cavill's Superman or Momoa's Aquaman and flirting with Wonder Woman kinda puts a smile on my face. Please please please bring back Pfeiffer even as just a cameo.

I'd rather they do Batman Beyond as well but the whole turning Batman into a legacy character gets people's knickers in a twist seemingly. Plus, the clone angle isn't my favorite thing.

I have no problem leveraging a Batgirl (which ever one they use) to get a Batman Beyond style franchise.

 

[I'm Batman.]

No Thomas Wayne Batman at all apparently.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Gotham over a barrel: should Michael Keaton answer the call of Batman? | Ben Child

Should Michael Keaton really be returning to the role of Gotham’s dark knight, 30 years on from originating the role for the modern era in 1989’s Batman and its 1992 sequel Batman Returns? If a new report from the Wrap is to be believed, this is the question the 68-year-old Oscar nominee might currently be pondering over his morning coffee. The Hollywood trade site reports he is in line to reprise his famous role in The Flash, a forthcoming solo outing for Ezra Miller’s take on the scarlet speedster.

This seems, at first glance, like the kind of desperate late career move Hollywood agents have nightmares about. Ageing star pulls on the famous old costume once again, only to find himself negatively compared to his own younger, more virile self from three decades in the past. Squint a little, and it could even be a cheeky alternative ending to Alejandro G Iñárritu’s Birdman, which featured Keaton as a has-been star of superhero movies whose inner voice wants him to ditch his current oh-so-serious play in favour of another avian outing.

Fortunately for Keaton, the headline rarely tells the full story, and there is significant evidence that he has not taken leave of his senses after all. Rather than playing Batman again, he will be playing just one of many caped crusaders that have existed across a potentially infinite array of realities – it just happens to be that this particular crusader is the one we met in Tim Burton’s films.

That’s because Flashpoint, the comic book source material for the proposed new film, sees Barry Allen’s Flash plunged into an alternate reality where DC’s costumed titans have changed radically. Aquaman, Wonder Woman and their respective tribes, for instance, are in the midst of all-out global war, while Superman is a freaky-deaky weakling.

I can’t help thinking that DC has missed a trick somewhere. In the comic (warning, spoilers ahead!), one of the alternate reality’s revelations is that the dark knight patrolling the streets of Gotham is not Bruce Wayne at all, but his grizzled father Thomas. (Wait till you see who the Joker is …)

In this version of reality, young Bruce – not his parents – died on the fateful night in the alley that inspired Batman into existence. It is the guilt-racked father – a sort of Eastwood-esque avenger – who swoops down on criminals night after night.

If the Wrap is to be believed, Warner Bros seems to have swapped out this plot element in favour of bringing back Keaton as an older version of the caped crusader, with the storyline filling us in on what has been happening to him in the intervening years. That’s a tantalising prospect, if only because we get to imagine that George Clooney, Val Kilmer and Ben Affleck never got to pull on the cape and cowl (though Christian Bale may have some reason to feel a little hard done by). Moreover, it will be fascinating to see if the studio can finally work out how to craft a costume for Keaton that actually allows him to turn his head.
And yet one of the comic’s greatest moments of pathos involves the final sacrifice made by Thomas Wayne that allows The Flash to return to his own reality and restore Bruce Wayne to the role of Batman. It is such an essential part of Flashpoint; the studio will need to have some pretty impressive ideas up its sleeve to match it.

Perhaps we can start a campaign for Keaton to appear as the grizzled elder Wayne, the toughest, wrinkliest dark knight since time began. But even if he doesn’t get the chance, the prospect of appearing in The Flash seems like a win-win. For this is the wonderful thing about alternate realities: if the movie’s great, Keaton gets to play Batman one last time. If the movie’s terrible, who knows if this version of the caped crusader really was the one we last saw three decades ago?

I shall be watching Batman '89 tonight.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

No Thomas Wayne Batman at all apparently.

Yes, really keen to see how that plays out. I was thinking that maybe Keaton's Batman has lost his way - maybe after the death of Alfred - and become more extreme, like Thomas in Flashpoint. But then I thought that's a bit too close to what we had with Affleck in BvS.

 

[Vaibow]

I'd rather an actual Batman Beyond who could also serve as a Batman for the Justice League going forward. Make it Tim Drake even if you have to but save Batgirl and Grayson for the Matt Reeves movies.

I could see Burton's Batman being very much like Kingdom Come Bruce in his old age. Even down to having Bat drones patrolling the city. To be honest I'd have rather have had Affleck's version continue in Justice League movies after the Snyder cut. Even if recast with Jon Hamm or whoever. Because I cannot see Pattinson's Batman fitting into that role at all and prefer he stays in his own bubble.

I really wanted to see the JDM Thomas Wayne Batman facing his warped wife The Joker. A big chunk of my posts on this site are about my love and admiration for Keaton's Batman so I'll roll with it. But this is definitely pandering at the same time I've ALWAYS been for the multiverse on the big screen so I can't be a hypocrite. Just thinking of Veteran Bruce sonning Cavill's Superman or Momoa's Aquaman and flirting with Wonder Woman kinda puts a smile on my face. Please please please bring back Pfeiffer even as just a cameo.

I like the idea of revisiting the Burton verse and Keaton is such a charismatic actor - he will be able to hold the scenes he is in.

I really hope he is Bruce, in the cave, guiding a younger bat.... technology is such that he has drones, cameras and a greater eye on the city's streets.. I don't want it hitech.... but grubby camera's around the city that look harmless, Wayne tech providing businesses in the slums with security, it all links back to the bat cave. I have blade runner vibes in terms of how the city looks 30 years later.

Behind him is his old suit, modified naturally over the years, but hung up, none the less. I want the young bat to wear his cowl and emblem, modern materials of course.

I also feel like a situation occurs where he has to suit up one last time, to go in and help, either rescue or assist the young bat... wether it's a he or she, i'm cool either way.

Like imagine them stuck in arkam and radioing for help then the line goes dead... think of the movie 'taken' or 'Rambo last blood', could be totally cool...

Then, I like to know how this Bruce then kinda takes up the mantle after batfleck. Batfleck is the dice batman, do we just ignore batfleck and not focus on him?

I kinda want one coherent time line, that's my only issue.

 

[Boom]

If we get to see Keaton in the suit, I say do a modernized version of the 89/BR suit, but replace the yellow with gold. Similar to the Flash suits:

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

I wonder if they do what they did at the very beginning of Batman Beyond, and we see a flashback to a de-aged Keatons' last night as Batman.

 

[Wheels]

I like the idea of revisiting the Burton verse and Keaton is such a charismatic actor - he will be able to hold the scenes he is in.

I really hope he is Bruce, in the cave, guiding a younger bat.... technology is such that he has drones, cameras and a greater eye on the city's streets.. I don't want it hitech.... but grubby camera's around the city that look harmless, Wayne tech providing businesses in the slums with security, it all links back to the bat cave. I have blade runner vibes in terms of how the city looks 30 years later.

Behind him is his old suit, modified naturally over the years, but hung up, none the less. I want the young bat to wear his cowl and emblem, modern materials of course.

I also feel like a situation occurs where he has to suit up one last time, to go in and help, either rescue or assist the young bat... wether it's a he or she, i'm cool either way.

Like imagine them stuck in arkam and radioing for help then the line goes dead... think of the movie 'taken' or 'Rambo last blood', could be totally cool...

Then, I like to know how this Bruce then kinda takes up the mantle after batfleck. Batfleck is the dice batman, do we just ignore batfleck and not focus on him?

I kinda want one coherent time line, that's my only issue.

You pretty much laid out what I would want. Although, I would like the futuristic bent of Beyond but I'm also fine with not being futuristic as well. I just like the idea of old Bruce Wayne training a new Bat more than anything, be it man, girl, or woman. I just think not doing a new Batman has advantages because you avoid the complaining that comes along with replacing Bruce in the suit and passing on the title of Batman.

 

[Airwings]

Now I've read the news and the five pages of this thread.

I asked myself over and over: Is this true? is this true? IS this true? Is THIS true? Is this TRUE?

This is so sick, in a good way. I can't find words for how sick and amazing this is.
Maybe it's a supernatural involvement because no normal film news/castings are on this level. It's too unrealistic to be for real, but it is happening!!!! Even if I can't believe it
And this is only about Keaton as Bruce Wayne again.
Having a multiverse makes it even better

I'm on for having Pfeiffer back as Selina, as others suggested.
I noticed a wish for 89-s Joker to clash with a younger version of the character (in the multiverse). But it's impossible. No, not because Nicholson is retired but because the character died in Burtonverse.

I really want to see that old Batsuit in action again. You know, the one that requires movement of the whole torso to look to either side.
And ofcourse the Burton's Batcar.
Both very iconic and neither should have been upgraded too much. Car and suit must still be as classic as they can be.

Talking about cars, what if Flash stumble through another universe before he enters the Burtonverse.
I think it was called Earth-66 in Crisis on infinite earths at CW.
I want to see a glimpse of the 1966s car. Only that one, just a glimpse.
Burt Ward doesn't need to be onscreen. I rather not have him appear.
But what if we could see a glimpse of his Robin suit too? Is that too much to ask for?

Someone say this film could be a better take on the multiverse than what CW did. Do you believe so?
I will go through suggestions in my next post. It's stuff that we didn't get on CW but we should have got.

 

[Airwings]

It's too much to ask for having the multiverse element being explored to the full. This isn't a crisis event, this is only flashpoint. But we can dream, right?

So I dream and want and wish to see the universes that CW left out of their crisis mash up.
Here we go!!!!

Dean Cain as Clark Kent (Superman isn't needed because the icon he is, he would steal the show from Bats and Flash).
But Helen Slater as Supergirl (Superwoman by now) can fly by.
Lynda Carter to appear, atleast as Diana. It would be too much with two suited up Wonder Woman's.
Justin Hartley as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow. I'm still upset we didn't see him in CW's crisis. I wanted to see him alongside their GA. We were robbed of that event.

Green Lantern? Nah, Ryan Reynolds would never don the green suit again. WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
But why can't that universe still be shown in a scene? Just ask Blake Lively to do a little cameo as Carol Ferris. It can be equal to Robert Redford's little appearance in MCU's Endgame.

Nolanverse then. Do you guys have any ideas to use that one? Maybe just refered to, but not seen?
Or Cillian Murphy to travel to Burtonverse to once again clash with Batman.

Interesting this, with bringing in multiverses.
Isn't the next Dr Strange supposed to dvelve into that too? I read somewhere that Tobey Maguire could be Peter Parker again, to some extent.

 

[Vaibow]

You run the risk of this being a..... exhibition movie... a 5 minute scene where Barry and Victor discover the multiverse theory exists, he can be like... 'ok, let's test it out' and we have a montage of him popping up in various universes, hiding behind the scenes... he could even bring back evidence... newspapers..etc...thats the extent I would showcase DC's cinematic history.