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Much to the delight of fans everywhere , it looks likeMichael Keaton may be reprising his role ofBatmanin theupcoming Flash solo movie . If reliable , this will be the first time Keaton has donned the cowl in nearly 30 years . First get on the role in Tim Burton ’s 1989 movie adjustment ofBatman(and again in 1992’sBatman return ) , Keaton give viewers adark , brooding and torment take on Bruce Wayne , a stark line to the last fourth dimension viewers saw The Caped Crusader onscreen withAdam West ’s campy representationof the character .
So what inhale the tonic switching from West ’s cartoonish do - gooder to Keaton ’s sulking and contemplative Dark Knight ? The answer lies in the comic strip . Much of the course credit belongs to two laughable Quran industry legends : writer Denny O’Neil and artist Neil Adams . The pair are often celebrate by comic book historiographer with returning Batman to his darker and more medieval roots .
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And O’Neil and Adams are far from the only comic icons responsible for the grittier version of the character film - goers enjoy to this day . " I love THE KILLING JOKE , " Burton has say of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland ’s seminal and twisted Batman Story . " It ’s my favorite . It ’s the first comic I ever loved . " During a lunch meeting in the recent ' 80 ’s , before making the motion picture , Moore reportedly advisedthat the most crucial aspect was that the director , " get Gotham City proper . "
It seems Moore ’s fellow creators were pleased with the results . Writing forComicMix in 2014 , the late O’Neil speak of Burton ’s darker and more grounded take on the reference , a take O’Neil had been instrumental in shaping :
" mayhap the idea of superheroes as a legitimate genre , equal to westerns and crime dramatic event and the eternal rest of the generic amusements , had been seep into our collective mind for years . But the genre was n’t quite validated until … voila – it was ! Tim Burton and his collaborators delivered what audiences did n’t realize they were hold off for … "
“ Stuff has to germinate and change or it dies,”the previous O’Neil said in 2016of his attempts to re - inject thedarkinto The Dark Knight . And the filmmakers seemed to hope O’Neil ’s advice on how the part should be portrayed , consider they asked him to pen the funny book adaptation of bothBatman1989 andBatman Returnsthree years afterwards . Incidentally , O’Neil ’s adaptation of the first movie get a deluxe hardcover re - put out just a few months ago .
The darker take on Batman made democratic by O’Neil , Moore , Adams , and others - which were finally encompass by Burton - has stuck with the character ’s various cinema iteration ever since . EvenThe LEGO Batman Moviepokes fun at the title character ’s life of doom and gloom . So it should be interesting to see how Keaton play the part if he does actually return inThe Flash . What will life even look like for a senior citizenBatman ? Will fans see him triumphantly returning to struggle likeThe Dark Knight Returns ? Or will he just be sitting back , using Batarangs to keep kids off his lawn ? Only fourth dimension will tell .
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