![]() Batman, Batman, Batman does this, and I kept thinking to myself, 'Y'all are thinking wrong here.' Bruce Wayne. "I knew from the get-go it was Bruce Wayne. because of Tim Burton, artistically iconic," Keaton explained on In the Envelope: The Actors Podcast in January. To me, I know the name of the movie is Batman, and it's hugely iconic and very cool and. "And Michael has such an intensity that it's like, 'Yeah, I could see that guy wanting to dress up as a bat.' It's all rooted in psychology, Jekyll and Hyde and two sides of a personality, light and dark, and he understood that."Īfter a successful two-movie stint, Keaton was set to reprise the role for a third time in Batman Forever, but ultimately hung up the cape and cowl after Joel Schumacher replaced Burton and he had creative differences with the filmmaker over the tone of the project. "They're somebody who's intelligent and kind of screwed up," Burton told Hollywood Reporter. "We've been at this for seven-and-a-half years now to do a dark and serious Batman and they appeared to want to hire a comedian."īut for Burton, Keaton was the perfect choice for his darker take on Bruce Wayne. "I thought they were joking when they told me Michael Keaton was cast," producer Michael Uslan admitted to The Hollywood Reporter. receiving thousands of letters from fans in protest-and even some of the executives were skeptical. Along with Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito and Michelle Pfeiffer, who respectively played Joker, The Penguin and Catwoman in Tim Burton's Batman in 1989 and Batman Returns in 1992, Keaton's performance set the standard and heightened audience's expectations for all the Batmans to come.īut Burtons decision to cast his Beetlejuice star was a controversial one at the time, with Warner Bros. Batman is, many point to Keaton as the clear winner. ![]()
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