Unholy Batman! Insider reveals another Michael Keaton DC comics movie was scrapped

It is a unhappy day for Gotham Metropolis. A number of "Batman" tasks that have been going to star Michael Keaton have been reportedly scrapped by DC.

Gotham Metropolis weeps at the moment.

It was revealed that Michael Keaton was set to reprise his function because the Caped Crusader in one other upcoming “Batman” venture — till some supervillains supposedly scrapped the movie.

The studio reportedly “killed” a “solo ‘Batman’ film that might have starred Michael Keaton,” film insider Jeff Sneider mentioned on “The Sizzling Mic with Jeff Sneider and John Rocha” podcast. It was to be written by Christina Hodson, the thoughts behind a number of DC Prolonged Universe tasks.

Hodson had additionally written the the canned “Batgirl” movie during which Keaton was set to seem alongside the titular hero performed by Leslie Grace and police commissioner Jim Gordon portrayed by J.Ok. Simmons. The Put up completely obtained set images of “Batgirl” displaying Keaton’s physique double sporting a swimsuit reminiscent to his two movies of the late Eighties and early ’90s.

Michael Keaton’s physique double is seen on the set of canceled “Batgirl.”

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Keaton’s physique double was seen sporting a swimsuit paying homage to his earlier period enjoying the Caped Crusader.

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Quickly after the latest disappointing revelation, fellow insider Umberto Gonzalez not solely confirmed Sneider’s scoop, but additionally shared particulars of the film’s plot-to-be.

“The ‘solo’ Michael Keaton Batman film you’re speaking about that Christina Hodson was writing, was in truth the BATMAN BEYOND film,” he tweeted.

FYI @TheInSneider, the "solo" Michael Keaton Batman film you are speaking about that Christina Hodson was writing, was in truth the BATMAN BEYOND film. pic.twitter.com/I1MpKZiJGG

— Umberto Gonzalez (@elmayimbe) December 9, 2022

Michael Keaton was imagined to be concerned in a “Batman Past” venture, insiders revealed.

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“Batman Past” was a profitable, three-season DC animation that aired from 1999 to 2001, and which proceeded the hit present “Batman: The Animated Collection.”

The late Kevin Conroy, the beloved voice of Bruce Wayne, performed an getting old model of the superhero as he got here to phrases with being unable to struggle crime as an outdated man.

Like he did with many Robbins, Wayne recruited and skilled hotshot teenager Terry McGinnis to take up the mantle of a a lot larger tech Batman in futuristic — but nonetheless crime-ridden — Gotham.

Michael Keaton was deliberate to return to the world as Batman till a number of tasks had been scrapped.

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Michael Keaton was reportedly set to play an getting old Bruce Wayne for a “Batman Past” movie.

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Each characters additionally appeared and saved the day in “Justice League: Limitless.”

McGinnis was revealed to be Wayne’s organic son in a 2005 “Justice League” episode.