Michael Keaton Would Play Batman Again; Explains Passing on ‘Batman Forever’

[MartyMcFly]

@MartyMcFly

Thoughts on if Alec Baldwin would have played Bruce Wayne/Batman and Keaton played the Joker.

Coming off the Beetlejuice hype....that probably would have been the more *obvious* move.

I still think Baldwin would have been perfect in that role. Shame his skills got wasted in "The Shadow"

Still Keaton was Boss as Batman imo. I did get Burton making Bruce Wayne a guy you'd never think could be Batman though.

Would've been dope. I know he was in the running but Burton felt a kinship with Keaton and felt it was an easier sell with Keaton and I understand his reasoning but Alec Baldwin in the 90s is a perfect real life double for Bruce Wayne. It would've made for a much different movie

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

the timing just wasn't there but a prime jim carrey would have been the ideal joker. one of the few performers in hollywood who could turn it up to 11. he could be funny, he could be looney, and if given the opportunity i believe he could be scary too.

just look at his riddler performance. take that same performance, amp it up even more, throw on the clown makeup, turn up the creepy, and you have yourself the perfect joker.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

the timing just wasn't there but a prime jim carrey would have been the ideal joker. one of the few performers in hollywood who could turn it up to 11. he could be funny, he could be looney, and if given the opportunity i believe he could be scary too.

just look at his riddler performance. take that same performance, amp it up even more, throw on the clown makeup, turn up the creepy, and you have yourself the perfect joker.

 

[Roman Brady]

Thats what the Batman animated series was for . You can't properly tell a story as big as Batman's in a movie anyway. Always gonna be something left out

you mean to tell me in the prime of the comic book movie boom the only way to get the complete interpretation of the most successful character is through a 22 year old cartoon? Stop it. A franchise done right could achieve something substantial' its just in the 3 we've had the dudes were pushing their own agenda while using the batman mythos as the backdrop

 

[Roman Brady]

the timing just wasn't there but a prime jim carrey would have been the ideal joker. one of the few performers in hollywood who could turn it up to 11. he could be funny, he could be looney, and if given the opportunity i believe he could be scary too.

just look at his riddler performance. take that same performance, amp it up even more, throw on the clown makeup, turn up the creepy, and you have yourself the perfect joker.

To be honest I thought this was the general consensus back in the day. It was like Joel and em were trying to redo joker in Riddler. Maybe I am not brushed up on the character but I don't recall the him being that loud, eccentric and off kilter

 

[RajWatts]

 

[Roman Brady]

 

[Won Won]

i like how people here conveniently forget batman returns was fukkin garbage

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Like everyone else, I'd love to see Keaton come back and do a The Dark Knight Returns-type story. But if it was going to be done, it should be done now, so it will never happen.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

I remember the trailer for Batman Returns, shyt was epic!

I just knew it would be on par or maybe better than the OG.




man i was so disapointed in that flick. It didnt even perform as well at the box office, way below batman 89. Movie was ridiculous, the penguin sucked, i couldnt stand his character. the set pieces and feel of the movie was more edward scissor hands than batman. burton just went overboard on the sillyness and penguin shyt. still one if the biggest disapointments at the movies as.a kid.

Batman returns

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

i liked everything as a kid.

actually i think the Burton movies are more kid friendly than the Nolan ones. More cartoony, more over the top, more fantastical.

I am being brutally honest as a 6-7 year old kid I can't guarentee I would have made it all the way through something like dark knight. I didn't have the attention span yet. it's too mature I think.

 

[TheGodling]

Say what you will about Returns.

But this scene was epic



Well until the penguins arrived

Still a dope scene.

That Batman turn

Rarely can a death be "sad" while someone is still trying to kill the hero.

Nah, the penguins make that fukking scene! It's such a simple way of showing that for all his hatred against mankind, he was given a respectful send-off by his non-judgmental penguin family.

And for the record, to me non-judgmental penguin family will always be more appropriate in a Batman movie than realism.

 

[Roman Brady]

i liked everything as a kid.

actually i think the Burton movies are more kid friendly than the Nolan ones. More cartoony, more over the top, more fantastical.

you say that like its some discovery,

 

[Gizza]

This thread got me weak. I haven't seen returns since I was a kid. So ima watch it to see how it aged. I just remember Mr Cobblepot Danny Devito was ludicrous.

 

[NV-ME]

he passed on $15 mil because the script was terrible...









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