migsblanco729
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Not going the route of Ben Affleck as a warped iteration (yet only superficially) of the DKR Batman in what should’ve been a character focused continuation, and worldbuilding sequel to man of steel.
And just since they needed an aged Batman for their vision, do what they ultimately did for Ezra Miller’s Flash a decade later and just made Michael Keaton the Batman of the shared universe?
He would be the one actor with the charisma and chops from the DCEU performance wise on par with Robert Downey Jr. from the MCU. He would’ve already had pre-existing Goodwill with audiences and you don’t need to dive into previous stories because we saw them already. You could flesh out the gaps in between Returns and BvS however you wanted
Even from a character aesthetic point of view, Burtons Gotham would function as a good visual counterpoint to Christopher Nolan’s originally more grounded or TDKT influenced Metropolis from Man of Steel.
After watching the Flash and seeing Michael Keaton still pulling it off at 70, if he just would’ve been asked to do it 10 years earlier, we could’ve gotten more movies with Michael Keaton‘s Batman … maybe bring back Tim Burton for a Batman Beyond where Keaton starts grooming his replacement and no not the Ezra type of grooming.
Seeing him interact with Supergirl in the Flash, all it really did was whet my appetite to see Michael Keaton‘s Batman opposite Henry Cavill’s Superman. Keaton the inspired against typecast visual and Henry Cavill, the literal spitting image typecast of the character from the comic books. I think they would strike an interesting visual together more so than Ben Affleck’s Batman with him. But that whole take was floundering to mid anyway. And as we could see in the Flash, Michael Keaton is just light years a better actor and Batman.
I 100% think this would’ve been not only more interesting artistically, I think it would’ve helped them out commercially as well.
And even if you wanted to go the route of the warped, homicidal, murderous, villain Batman … you could still make Michael Keaton that warped Affleck ish DKR inspired version just with the Keaton Batman aesthetics. And probably would’ve made more sense because he doesn’t have his Alfred to help reign in his monster. Which I always thought was odd that they didn’t get rid of him to validate the way Ben Affleck character is acting in BvS, makes much more logical sense.
And just since they needed an aged Batman for their vision, do what they ultimately did for Ezra Miller’s Flash a decade later and just made Michael Keaton the Batman of the shared universe?
He would be the one actor with the charisma and chops from the DCEU performance wise on par with Robert Downey Jr. from the MCU. He would’ve already had pre-existing Goodwill with audiences and you don’t need to dive into previous stories because we saw them already. You could flesh out the gaps in between Returns and BvS however you wanted
Even from a character aesthetic point of view, Burtons Gotham would function as a good visual counterpoint to Christopher Nolan’s originally more grounded or TDKT influenced Metropolis from Man of Steel.
After watching the Flash and seeing Michael Keaton still pulling it off at 70, if he just would’ve been asked to do it 10 years earlier, we could’ve gotten more movies with Michael Keaton‘s Batman … maybe bring back Tim Burton for a Batman Beyond where Keaton starts grooming his replacement and no not the Ezra type of grooming.
Seeing him interact with Supergirl in the Flash, all it really did was whet my appetite to see Michael Keaton‘s Batman opposite Henry Cavill’s Superman. Keaton the inspired against typecast visual and Henry Cavill, the literal spitting image typecast of the character from the comic books. I think they would strike an interesting visual together more so than Ben Affleck’s Batman with him. But that whole take was floundering to mid anyway. And as we could see in the Flash, Michael Keaton is just light years a better actor and Batman.
I 100% think this would’ve been not only more interesting artistically, I think it would’ve helped them out commercially as well.
And even if you wanted to go the route of the warped, homicidal, murderous, villain Batman … you could still make Michael Keaton that warped Affleck ish DKR inspired version just with the Keaton Batman aesthetics. And probably would’ve made more sense because he doesn’t have his Alfred to help reign in his monster. Which I always thought was odd that they didn’t get rid of him to validate the way Ben Affleck character is acting in BvS, makes much more logical sense.
