The 70-year old actor chose not to reprise his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman in 1995’s Batman Forever after playing the famous DC hero in 1989’s Batman and 1992’s Batman Returns, both directed by Tim Burton.
It took 30 years before Michael Keaton opened up why he hung up his cape after starring in two Batman movies.
The 70-year old actor chose not to reprise his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman in 1995’s Batman Forever after playing the famous DC hero in 1989’s Batman and 1992’s Batman Returns, both directed by Tim Burton.
In a recent episode of In the Envelope: The Actor’s Podcast, Keaton’s decision to not play Batman was when Joel Schumacher came on to direct Batman Forever. Keaton was then replaced by Val Kilmer.
Keaton claims that the “artistic differences” between him and Schumacher (who died in 2020 at the age of 80) was the big reason he decided to walk out on the third Batman film.
“It was always Bruce Wayne. It was never Batman,” says Keaton. “To me, I know the name of the movie is Batman, and it’s hugely iconic and very cool and a cultural iconic and because of Tim Burton, artistically iconic.
“I knew from the get-go it was Bruce Wayne. That was the secret. I never talked about it. Everyone would say, ‘Batman, Batman, Batman does this, and I kept thinking to myself, ‘Y’all are thinking wrong here.’ It’s all about Bruce Wayne. What kind of person does that?… Who becomes that? What kind of person does that?”
Keaton clashed with Schumacher over the character’s future. While Keaton wanted to remain true to the character he formed while working with Burton, Schumacher was more interested in the story told by the Batman comics.
“And one of the reasons I couldn’t do it was—and you know, he’s a nice enough man, he’s passed away, so I wouldn’t speak ill of him even if he were alive—he, at one point, after more than a couple of meetings where I kept trying to rationalize doing it and hopefully talking him into saying ‘I think we don’t want to go in this direction, I think we should go in this direction.’ And he wasn’t going to budge.
“I remember one of the things that I walked away going, ‘Oh boy, I can’t do this.’ He asked me, ‘I don’t understand why everything has to be so dark and everything so sad,’ and I went, ‘Wait a minute, do you know how this guy got to be Batman? Have you read… I mean, it’s pretty simple.'”
In Schumacher’s second Batman film, Batman & Robin, George Clooney played the Gotham superhero, although the actor has since admitted it wasn’t his best role.
While Keaton walked away from Batman decades ago, he is reprising his role as the Caped Crusader in the DC Universe Film, The Flash, which is set to premiere in theaters November 4, 2022.
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After 30 years, Michael Keaton reveals why he didn’t do the third Batman movie
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