Batman actor Michael Keaton explains why he had to walk away from Batman Forever — and why he's back for TheFlash and Batgirl:
✖ Michael Keaton walked away from Batman Forever, but the actor wasn't walking away from Batman forever. In an interview on SiriusXM's The Jess Cagle Podcast With Julia Cunningham, Keaton explains why he walked away from the Batman franchise of the '90s after starring in director Tim Burton's 1989 blockbuster and its 1992 sequel Batman Returns.
As the comic book genre exploded again in later years in the worlds of DC and Marvel, Keaton said,"I was really out of it, to be honest. At some point, you're a jerk if you don't go, 'Well, this is a legitimate world. You're no better or worse than this.'" "When it came around again, I was getting curious about it. I thought, 'Boy, what would that be like?' And then, coincidentally, there were murmurs, I got a call from Warner Bros. They wanted to talk to me about something, and there were hints of Batman," he said."I think it was about some other thing regarding Batman ... I got a call later saying, 'We want you to read something.' I just thought, 'Of course you have to do this.
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