Batman fan favorite Michael Keaton is in talks to reprise his role as the Caped Crusader. The 68-year-old is being considered for a new big-budget iteration of the legendary DC Comics character, for 2022's standalone Flash film starring Ezra Miller. If it comes to pass, a full three decades will have elapsed since Keaton will have portrayed Bruce Wayne, last starring as the millionaire-turned-superhero in 1992's brilliant Batman Returns. As for Keaton, the Oscar nominee first played Batman in Tim Burton’s 1989 dark blockbuster opposite Jack Nicholson as the Joker, thereby relaunching the Batman franchise and comic book characters in general as bona fide players in the big budget studio film marketplace. After 1992's also successful sequel with Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman: The franchise went in a different, campier direction

Source: Daily Mail June 22, 2020 20:18 UTC