Keaton returns Batman for films about The Flash and Batgirl

Michael Keaton's return as Batman will be double, 30 years after he last wore his role in Batman: The Return of Tim Burton (1992).

    It had already been announced the participation of the actor in The Flash by Andy Muschietti to be released in the US in November 2022, starring Ezra Miller and the presence in the story of another Batman film, Ben Affleck.

    Keaton will also be the DC Comics super crime villain again in Batgirl, the film by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah produced for the Hbo Max platform (debut scheduled for 2022). It stars Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon, daughter of Commissioner Gordon (played by JK Simmons), who hides her superhero identity. The supervillain to defeat will be Garfield Lynns aka Firefly, a pyromaniac sociopath, played by Brendan Fraser.

    Keaton explained in the Variety Awards Circuit podcast that he had for years the curiosity to return to playing Batman (first incarnated in 1989 in the Tim Burton film of the same name) at such a distance: "even if it took a long time. frankly (to decide to do so, ed) - he underlined - There must be a reason ". Meanwhile, he will make his debut as the superhero and a new interpreter, Robert Pattinson, in The Batman by Matt Reeves, arriving in March 2022.

    Keaton is fresh from the success of Dopesick - Declaration of Addiction, the drama series by Danny Strong, distributed in Italy by Disney + as a Star original, which explores the birth of the opioid drug epidemic in the USA.

The actor in the short story played Samuel Finnix a doctor in a Pennsylvania mining town, who finds himself battling addiction as a doctor himself.

A performance that could bring him in the running for Emmys and for which he is already nominated for, among others, the Golden Globes, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards and the Satellite Awards.