Michael Keaton willing to reprise Batman.

[YankeesFanboy]

What about Kim Basinger? Can you believe she'll turn 61 on Dec. 8?

 

[fosing]

Spending his money and not giving a fauk.

hellz yeah.

 

[FSLAR]

I'd be down for a The Dark Knight Returns film with Keaton, it'd be fitting and neat. I'd go for it personally. The question is though, if Burton directs it, can he return to his roots? The recent Burton films are pretty bad honestly.

 

[a-dev]

What about Kim Basinger? Can you believe she'll turn 61 on Dec. 8?

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I could easily see her back as Vicky Vale if they went that road. Likewise Nicholson as Joker (he has always said he'd play The Joker again) albeit retconned back to life. No chance this would happen though.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

The only Dark Knight Returns we'll probably get is the animated movie

 

[316what]

Val Kilmer more than happy to again play Batman, if Keaton's a no-go.

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He'd have to audition for Cobblepot.

 

[Magpie 7]

Keaton is the most natural Bruce Wayne/Batman we've seen on screen, he's the only one thats really explored deeply the psychology of the character. I could honestly only see Keaton returning as similar to Sean Connery returning as James Bond, done right it would blow Bale, Clooney, Kilmer and Affleck's Batman into tiny pieces.

 

[YankeesFanboy]

If Keaton were ever to reprise Batman, he'd obviously be the "Too old for this ---- Batman." Would anybody object to seeing him get killed at the end? For reals, not like TDKR copout.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

Every time I look at the thread title, I see:

Michael Killington to reprise Batman.

 

[rushmore223]

I like Keaton, he was okay as Batman, but I'd rather see him do other things. He has a gift for sardonic humor.

I know Bale-backlash has made it popular to hate the Nolan Batman movies (in hindsight) but I will take BB and TDK over any other Batman movie ever made.

I actually liked Batman Returns more than the first, but that might have a lot to do with watching Michelle Pfeiffer strut around in the catsuit.

 

[dragonsleeper]

maybe Batman Beyond, Keaton with a cane

 

[Magpie 7]

"Keaton's too old to play Batman"

Well thats the point of revisiting an older, out of shape Batman who's well past his prime. Doing it with Christian Bale just didn't make sense, i mean he looked barely older than he was in TDK and that was supposed to represent Batman in his prime. How they do it will be far more important than the actor's age, and how they engage Robin/**** Grayson for that matter too. It would be easy for them to have robin already dead but what if Chris O'Donnell returned and it was his death in the film's opening that gave Batman the desire to return to get revenge?

 

[DiFabio]

Keaton never had a Robin though. Actually, he's the only Bruce Wayne not to have one oddly enough.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Keaton never had a Robin though. Actually, he's the only Bruce Wayne not to have one oddly enough.

I think Magpie 7 means that the Bruce Wayne from Forever is the same Bruce Wayne from the Keaton films, because it's part of the same franchise and they have the same Alfred. I don't count Forever as part of the Keaton universe. Forever is like a James Bond film to me in that it changed the main character, but the rest of the cast stayed the same and they ignored continuity.

 

[DiFabio]

I think Magpie 7 means that the Bruce Wayne from Forever is the same Bruce Wayne from the Keaton films, because it's part of the same franchise and they have the same Alfred. I don't count Forever as part of the Keaton universe. Forever is like a James Bond film to me in that it changed the main character, but the rest of the cast stayed the same and they ignored continuity.

Yeah, I knew what he meant.

Unless the Keaton Bruce/Batman suddenly let photographers take pictures of him as Batman to put on TIME magazine, made a Wayne Enterprises company, outfitted his car and cave with flashing lights, put nipples on his suit, bought a credit card as Batman and decided he'd go to public ceremonies as Batman, I'm going to say they aren't the same guy.

Keaton Wayne didn't seem like the kind of guy that would take an orphan under his wing, let alone go to a circus. The guy didn't even go out on Christmas!

 

[RIDDICK]

I think Magpie 7 means that the Bruce Wayne from Forever is the same Bruce Wayne from the Keaton films, because it's part of the same franchise and they have the same Alfred. I don't count Forever as part of the Keaton universe. Forever is like a James Bond film to me in that it changed the main character, but the rest of the cast stayed the same and they ignored continuity.

There's no mention of anything from Burton films.
The tone is different, the city is different, Wayne manor is different, even characters are different...

I like to call it a quasi-sequel. Because it is.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Yeah, I knew what he meant.

Unless the Keaton Bruce/Batman suddenly let photographers take pictures of him as Batman to put on TIME magazine, made a Wayne Enterprises company, outfitted his car and cave with flashing lights, put nipples on his suit, bought a credit card as Batman and decided he'd go to public ceremonies as Batman, I'm going to say they aren't the same guy.

Keaton Wayne didn't seem like the kind of guy that would take an orphan under his wing, let alone go to a circus. The guy didn't even go out on Christmas!

There's no mention of anything from Burton films.
The tone is different, the city is different, Wayne manor is different, even characters are different...

I like to call it a quasi-sequel. Because it is.

 

[Magpie 7]

Yeah, I knew what he meant.

Unless the Keaton Bruce/Batman suddenly let photographers take pictures of him as Batman to put on TIME magazine, made a Wayne Enterprises company, outfitted his car and cave with flashing lights, put nipples on his suit, bought a credit card as Batman and decided he'd go to public ceremonies as Batman, I'm going to say they aren't the same guy.

Keaton Wayne didn't seem like the kind of guy that would take an orphan under his wing, let alone go to a circus. The guy didn't even go out on Christmas!

Good point, the fact is nobody knows how Keaton/Burton would've handled the introduction of O'Donnell's Robin but i think it could've been significantly different from Schumacher and Kilmer. In your generalisation of Batman/Wayne you're losing a lot of the reason why he takes in Robin in the first place, its not purely down to how Wayne relates to Grayson with their similar experiences of having their family murdered but that does make up a huge part of the reason.

Anyway its all pointless because Burton didn't make BF and Keaton's Wayne never got the chance tobe put in a position where he takes in Grayson. But the inclusion of O'Donnell would serve the film purely to have a familiar Robin that an audience knows and would be bothered about when he gets killed early on.

 

[iPhone]

He is now the Birdman.