While appearing on CinemaBlend’s Reelblend podcast alongside his sister/producer Barbara Muschietti, Muschietti told hosts Jake Hamilton, Kevin McCarthy and our own Sean O’Connell that it was important for Keaton’s version of Bruce Wayne to be in a significantly different place compared to where audiences left off with him in 1992’s Batman Returns, saying:
Now director Andy Muschietti has teased the reason for why this Bruce Wayne quit being Batman.īack in March, we got our first confirmation from merchandise that Keaton’s Batman has “long been retired as Gotham City’s protector,” and The Flash trailer released in April teased this through the Batcave looking like it hadn’t been used in a long time. However, when Barry makes his way into another reality in The Flash movie, he’ll meet Michael Keaton’s Batman, who’s not only a few decades older than Affleck’s version, but has also long been retired from vigilantism. In the DC Extended Universe, Ben Affleck’s Batman is still active and fighting crime both solo and with his fellow Justice Leaguers, including Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen, a.k.a. Michael Keaton's Batman piloting Batplane in The Flash movie
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