Michael Keaton is putting the Batsuit back on.
After playing the Caped Crusader in the 1989 film “Batman” and its 1992 sequel “Batman Returns,” the 69-year-old will reprise the role in the upcoming film “The Flash.”
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While previously being coy about taking on the superhero again, Keaton is now opening up about revisiting the character nearly 30 years later.
“Frankly, in the back of my head, I always thought, ‘I bet I could go back and nail that mother[expletive],’” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “And so I thought, ‘Well, now that they’re asking me, let me see if I can pull that off.’”
His decision to go back to Gotham City happened despite admitting he’s not a big fan of the genre.
“After the first Batman, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an entire [comic book] movie,” Keaton told the outlet. “I just never got around to it. So you’re talking to a guy who wasn’t in the zeitgeist of that whole world. When I went down to do the Marvel things in Atlanta … It’s an entire city dedicated to Marvel … They’ll be doing Marvel movies forever. I’ll be dead, and they’ll still be doing Marvel movies.”
His experience the third time around proved to be enlightening to the Oscar winner.
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“What’s really interesting is how much more I got [Batman] when I went back and did him. I get this on a whole other level now,” he continued. “I totally respect it. I respect what people are trying to make. I never looked at it like, ‘Oh, this is just a silly thing.’ It was not a silly thing when I did Batman. But it has become a giant thing, culturally. It’s iconic.”
“The Flash,” which stars Ezra Miller in the titular role, is scheduled to be released in theaters on November 4, 2022.
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