9/10/2023 0 Comments Hero i quit a long time agoBarry is pushing him back into action, and after some persuading he finds himself invigorated and rekindled, his passion for the fight against crime. “I wanted Batman to arise after a process in which he starts as a reluctant hero. “He basically quit his life of justice, and he’s trying to cope with life the best way he can.” Or, in his words, he’s a “‘hermit Obi-Wan’ Bruce Wayne”, to reference another down-and-out Jedi.Ĭalcified by years of isolation, it’s the arrival of not one but two Barry Allens – plus the involvement of Sasha Calle’s Supergirl (“That was also something that drew us to the film,” notes Barbara of Kara Zor-El) – that brings Bruce Wayne out of retirement. “He’s very sceptical of the world,” says Andy, teasing “a distrust of human beings in general” from our returning hero. Like The Last Jedi’s holed-up Luke Skywalker, this older Bruce Wayne is scarred by the events of the intervening decades. “Not only do I have a deep respect for what he did and how he created this character, but let’s talk about this story and where we find Bruce.” The result is not exactly the hero audiences might remember. “That was one of the focuses of my conversations with Michael,” explains Andy. The first time we had him on set as Batman, everybody was in awe – Barbara Muschiettiįiguring out how exactly three decades would have changed Keaton’s Bat was key to his return in The Flash. You'll see a Michael Keaton that we find 30 years after we'd seen him for the first time, in a very different place than he's been before.” You see Ben Affleck's Batman that is a little funnier. “In this movie you see them under a different light. “They both have different personalities,” he notes. ![]() And since The Flash begins in the so-called Snyder-Verse before flinging Barry into another timeline, the filmmaker got to compare and contrast Affleck and Keaton’s Batmen. “His characterisation of Bruce Wayne – and Batman – was mind-blowing,” says Andy. If every Batman has had its own flavour – from Robert Pattinson’s emo detective, to Christian Bale’s city slicker, to Ben Affleck’s beefy brawler – Keaton’s Bat was always stoic, formidable, and just a little bit nuts. “I never thought that Keaton would come back as Batman, let alone us doing it, and me directing,” says Andy. And in that dimension, Bruce Wayne no longer comes in the form of Ben Affleck, but an older, grizzled Michael Keaton. In The Flash – the long-awaited headline film for super-speedy DC hero Barry Allen (Ezra Miller), directed by Andy Muschietti and produced by Barbara Muschietti – multiversal machinations send the Scarlet Speedster hurtling into an alternate reality.
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