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Michael Keaton Played Batman in Axed ‘Batgirl’ Movie but Isn’t Upset the Film Got Shelved: ‘I Didn’t Care One Way or Another. Big, Fun, Nice Check’
Michael Keaton reprised Batman in Warner Bros.'s axed "Batgirl," but the film's shelving didn't really matter too much to the actor.
They’re nice guys,” he added on a softer note about “Batgirl” directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. “Batgirl” was one of two comic book tentpoles that was supposed to mark the return of Keaton’s Bruce Wayne/Batman, a role he first played in Tim Burton’s 1989 “Batman” and reprised in 1992’s “Batman Returns.” The second tentpole was “The Flash,” which did get a theatrical release from Warner Bros. in July 2023 but bombed at the box office with $271 million worldwide. It’s why he wasn’t too thrilled with the narrative around his Oscar-nominated turn in 2014’s “Birdman,” which the press billed largely as an acting comeback for Keaton.
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