“The Flash” sees Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen journey to an alternate universe in a bid to stop his mom’s dying, unknowingly inflicting untold multiversal chaos within the course of. On this alternate timeline, Michael Keaton’s Batman awaits, prepared to assist Barry on his quest to proper his wrongs and restore order. And because the numerous Bat-suits in “The Flash” trailer reveal, this model of Keaton’s Darkish Knight has had fairly the storied profession since we final noticed him, earlier than hanging up the cowl for good and retiring.
“The Flash” director Andy Muschietti and producer Barbara Muschietti have spoken about Keaton donning the Batsuit as soon as once more, recalling how the actor needed pictures of him as Batman to show his grandson. In addition they remembered Keaton taking a quiet second to himself when he first stepped onto the Batcave set, constructed at England’s well-known Leavesden studios, suggesting the importance of the entire thing wasn’t misplaced on the veteran star.
After this reintroduction to the position, it appears Andy Muschietti mainly turned issues over to Keaton, giving him free rein to rediscover that troubled loner from “Batman” ’89 and “Returns.” The director spoke about this in a current interview with Pink Villa, the place he revealed he’d had in-depth conversations with Keaton concerning the character previous to capturing and was decided to listen to all of the actor’s ideas on painting a Bruce Wayne who was 30 years older. By the point it got here to truly filming, the filmmaker defined how he “tried to not intrude an excessive amount of with [Keaton] as an actor,” including that he was “so glad [Keaton] was there to painting Bruce and Batman.”
