Michael Keaton talks about new film ‘The Protégé’ and playing Batman again
In the new film “The Protégé,” Michael Keaton plays a mysterious contract killer who crosses paths with another assassin. Joining TODAY in the studio, he says, “It’s fun – things you wanted to do as a little kid, now you get to do as a grownup.” He also talks about returning to the role of Batman.
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Michael Keaton is reprising his Batman role in “The Flash”
Keaton is reprising his Batman role in “The Flash,” but the specifics of his return confounded him at first.
Michael Keaton is reprising his role of Bruce Wayne/Batman for the first time since 1992’s “Batman Returns” in Andy Muschietti’s upcoming DC Comics and Warner Bros. tentpole “The Flash.” The movie finds Ezra Miller’s eponymous superhero journeying through the multiverse, which is why both Keaton and Ben Affleck will appear as different iterations of Batman in the same movie. Keaton told The Hollywood Reporter that he decided to return to the Batman character because he always wanted another chance to “go back and nail that motherfucker…so I thought, ‘Well, now that they’re asking me, let me see if I can pull that off.’” However, making sense of the multiverse was a challenge.
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Michael Keaton, star of Batman, has admitted that he doesn’t entirely get superhero films.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Keaton said: “After the first Batman, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an entire [comic book] movie.”
Whilst he has starred in several superhero movies including the upcoming The Flash, where he will reprise his role as Batman, Keaton says: “I just never got around to it.”
The actor is also part of the vast Marvel Cinematic Universe where he plays the villainous Vulture and he spoke on the MCU’s cultural impact: “They’ll be doing Marvel movies forever. I’ll be dead, and they’ll still be doing Marvel movies.”
Keaton admits to never being a comic book fan and credits Tim Burton, director of the first Batman with changing the landscape of cinema: “What Tim did changed everything.
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Michael Keaton praises the Flash script and talks about returning as Batman
The actor Michael ketaton He has given an interesting interview for The Hollywood Reporter in which he reviews his history in the world of cinema. Among all that review, the most interesting – and that most concerns us – is his return as Bruce Wayne for the film “The Flash”. Three decades later, he will return to don the Batman suit, playing a more adult version of the one he played in director Tim Burton’s films.
Directed by Andy Muschietti, the Flash movie will feature Scarlet Sprinter breaking the rules of physics to immerse himself in the realm of parallel universes, where he will encounter different versions of DC’s heroes, including Keaton’s and Batman’s Batman. Ben Affleck. Apparently, Keaton was impressed by the script Christina Hodson had written (“Birds of Prey”), and by the vision of Muschietti, and was intrigued by the possibility of returning to the character he played in his day.
Frankly, in the back of my head, I always thought, ‘I bet I could go back and nail that motherfucker.’ And then I thought, ‘Well, now that they’re asking me, let me see if I can pull it off.’
However, the actor acknowledges that the topic of parallel universes was something that he had a hard time understanding when he was reading the script
I had to read it more than three times to say, ‘Wait, how does this work?’ Keaton says. They had to explain it to me several times. By the way, I’m not being arrogant, I hope, with this. I’m not saying it like, ‘I’m too groovy.’ I am stupid. There are many things that I do not know. And so, I don’t know, I figured it out, but this was different.
What’s really interesting is how much I understood [a Batman] when I did it again. Now I understand it on another level. I totally respect it. I respect what people are trying to do. I never saw him like, ‘Oh, this is just a dumb thing.’ It wasn’t silly when I did Batman. But it has become a giant thing, culturally. It is an icon. So I have even more respect for it because what do I know? This is a big thing in the world for people. You have to honor it and be respectful of it. Even I say, ‘Jesus, this is huge.’
Michael John Douglas
Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor, best known for playing the DC Comics superhero Batman in the films Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992) and the upcoming The Flash (2022), as well as Jack Butler in Mr. Mom (1983) and Beetlejuice in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice (1988).
Since then, he has appeared in a variety of films ranging from dramas and romantic comedies to thriller and action films, such as Night Shift (1982), Clean and Sober (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), The Paper (1994), Multiplicity (1996), Jackie Brown (1997), The Other Guys (2010), Spotlight (2015), The Founder (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Dumbo (2019), and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020). He has also provided voices for characters in animated films such as Porco Rosso (1992), Cars (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Minions (2015). In 2021 he is set to star in the Netflix film Worth and the limited series Dopesick on Hulu.
In 2014, Keaton garnered critical acclaim for his performance in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s black comedy film Birdman, winning a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He previously received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in Live from Baghdad (2002) and five Screen Actors Guild Award nominations winning three awards for his performances in Birdman (2014), Spotlight (2015), and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020).
Keaton was awarded a Career Achievement Award from the Hollywood Film Festival. On January 18, 2016, he was named Officer of Order of Arts and Letters in France. He is also a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University.
Batman
Batman is a 1989 American superhero film directed by Tim Burton and produced by Jon Peters and Peter Guber, based on the DC Comics character of the same name.
It is the first installment of Warner Bros.’ initial Batman film series. The film stars Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne / Batman, Jack Nicholson as Jack Napier / The Joker and Kim Basinger as Vicki Vale, alongside Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Gough, and Jack Palance. The film takes place early in the title character’s war on crime, and depicts his conflict with the Joker.
Tim Burton
Timothy Walter Burton[a] (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, producer, writer, and artist known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), and Frankenweenie (2012).
Burton also directed the superhero films Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), the sci-fi film Planet of the Apes (2001), the fantasy-drama Big Fish (2003), the musical adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and the fantasy films Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016).
The Flash (2014 TV series)
The Flash is an American superhero television drama series developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Geoff Johns, airing on The CW.
It is based on the Barry Allen incarnation of DC Comics character the Flash, a costumed superhero crime-fighter with the power to move at superhuman speeds.
It is a spin-off from Arrow, existing in the same fictional universe known as Arrowverse. The series follows Barry Allen, portrayed by Grant Gustin, a crime scene investigator who gains super-human speed, which he uses to fight criminals, including others who have also gained superhuman abilities.