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Michael Keaton To Play A Superhero Again (Kinda) In BIRDMAN

Right off the bat (no pun intended) I better explain this one - the movie isn't actually about a superhero, it's a dark comedy from Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu about an actor (Keaton) who once played a superhero and is trying to recapture some former glory..

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By Mark "RorMachine" Cassidy - 3/6/2013


This might just be the closest we ever get to the mighty Michael Keaton playing a superhero again. The former Batman is set to star in Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu's (21 Grams, Babel) ensemble comedy drama Birdman for Fox Searchlight and New Regency. The story deals with an actor who played a superhero back in his heyday deciding to put on a play on Broadway based on a short story by Raymond Carver. Things don't go to plan however when his egotistical lead actor threatens to hamstring the production. Deadline have just announced that Edward Norton will play that character, and they'll be joined by Emma Stone, Naomi Watts and Zach Galifianakis. Quite a cast eh? Obviously this can't be regarded as a CBM, but we figured there are enough Keaton fans on here that it'd be of some interest. Birdman will be produced by Inarritu, John Lesher and Robert Graf. The director also wrote the script with Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo.







Source: Deadline
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hope420 - 3/6/2013, 5:02 PM
I agree with Levi! He was the best in the suit!
Bread - 3/6/2013, 5:04 PM
Best Batman in live action
IIIAdamantiumIII - 3/6/2013, 5:05 PM
Yup best batman !
NightAvenger - 3/6/2013, 5:05 PM
Sounds awesome.

Best Batman.
nach1wan - 3/6/2013, 5:06 PM
i would say that be havent seen the best batman yet xD
raccoonwithrockets - 3/6/2013, 5:07 PM
Best Batman
and now he'll be Best Birdman!!!
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:07 PM
Great Batman. Terrible Bruce Wayne.
sephiroth211 - 3/6/2013, 5:07 PM
Birdman? Oh hell yea!!!



Lmfao
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:07 PM
purdue...lmao!
ToTheManInTheColdSweat - 3/6/2013, 5:09 PM
blasphemy!!! adam west is the best batman EVAH!!!
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:14 PM
Why wouldn't you? I'm the [frick]ing best!
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:14 PM
Adam West was the best Bruce Wayne.
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:15 PM
Purdue...let's kick some ice!
LP4 - 3/6/2013, 5:16 PM
Keaton was the best Batman ever.

Nuff said. Oh and Batman Returns? Greatest Batman film ever made IMHO.
LP4 - 3/6/2013, 5:18 PM
@OhthePurdue- HOW THE [frick] is Routh the best Superman? Guy was only in ONE failed Superman movie where he hardly did any acting in the role at all. Whatever. I do agree with you about Keaton being the best Batman ever. But Routh the best Superman? Hardly.

That honor goes to Dean Cain
QuanZen - 3/6/2013, 5:19 PM
I agree with Gusto
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:20 PM
You shouldn't, Quan...I'm [frick]ing wasted over here.
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:21 PM
lmao...Purdue...methinks they don't get your humor...
thewonderer - 3/6/2013, 5:21 PM
Keaton murdered thugs, threw them off roofs, incinerated one alive, SHOT AT THE JOKER WITH HIS BATWING.

I don't give a shit if you hate Bale, doing the above is just Batman heresy even in 89 and even if in early prototype comics, he killed.
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:22 PM
Bale threw Marconni of the roof...he didn't know how he'd land.
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:22 PM
[frick] spelling
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:23 PM
And, Bale was gonna kill his parent's murderer...he was just too slow.
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:23 PM
I half agree with Purdue...Singer's to blame for that shit.
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:24 PM
Routh haters point...nobody wanted a Reeves sequel. They wanted a reboot.
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:25 PM
Was still better than Superman III or IV
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:25 PM
Or, Skyping with Yoss...
Superman8 - 3/6/2013, 5:29 PM
I laughed when i saw Ed Norton is playing an egotistical actor who demands too much.

Art imitates life.
jessepostal - 3/6/2013, 5:31 PM
who cares if his bats killed a few thugs, it doesn't change the fact keaton was the best bats
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:35 PM
LMAO...punitive damages!
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:38 PM
Nomis...that's...umm...David Banner.
TheOneAboveAll - 3/6/2013, 5:41 PM
@Gusto Dr.David Bruce Banner
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:41 PM
Hey, man...we cool...we cool.
OrgasmicPotatoe - 3/6/2013, 5:43 PM
Tomorrow, we are going to hear how Innaritu is a fake name for the new Justice League movie, and that Keaton will be playing Batman in it.




Courtesy of El Mayimbe, of course !
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:45 PM
LP4 - 3/6/2013, 5:46 PM
@OhthePurdue- Did a good job picking up where Reeve left off? That's Singer. SINGER MADE THE MOVIE AN HOMAGE FILM, Routh didn't even have to do ANYTHING, he just stood around looking clueless and barely even said a single line of dialogue.

@TheWonderer- Dude STFU already. Yeah Keaton's Batman shot at Joker but he MISSED ON PURPOSE remember that part? Or maybe you didn't see the full movie right? Idiot
Superman8 - 3/6/2013, 5:48 PM
Best Superman-Christopher Reeve
Best Clark Kent-Brandon Routh

Best Batman-Michael Keaton
Best Bruce Wayne-Christian Bale

For now.
LP4 - 3/6/2013, 5:48 PM
@OhthePurude-

"it's just that butthurt fanboys wanted a Michael Bay shit-going-boom fest instead of a well told story about a hero being gone and coming back with the world moving on without him. Have fun watching Superman beat up Zod bots this summer"

NOBODY WANTED A [frick]ING MOVIE ABOUT SUPERMAN'S FEELINGS. We don't give a SHIT about it. We just wanted what everyone wanted- seeing Superman ACTUALLY USE his powers to kick some butt. There's nothing wrong with that. Making a nearly 3 hour film about Superman being all emo and depressed and his feelings is PURE STUPIDITY.
Bobevanz - 3/6/2013, 5:48 PM
Michael keaton WAS the best batman! Then adam west and val kilmer, then bale and finally clooney :)
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:49 PM
Best Hair...Nomis...
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:50 PM
He lost his nipples in 'Nam.
Gusto - 3/6/2013, 5:50 PM
Charlie's gonna pay...
LP4 - 3/6/2013, 5:52 PM
@OhthePurdue- Oh and for the record no one said they wanted the Superman movie to be like a Michael Bay film. That's just what people like YOU Superman Returns-apologists like to believe.

What people wanted was a movie that had a good balance of BOTH action AND drama/romance. Singer's film was just 100% sappy drama. Not a single bit of action. Superman NEVER threw a [frick]ing punch.
LP4 - 3/6/2013, 5:54 PM
Lastly @OhthePurdue- Superman Returns was a failure. Sure it made money, it barely broke even. It only made money because it's a movie about SUPERMAN. Slap the name "Superman" on anything people will line up to watch it.

But there is a REASON Warner Bros chose not to make a sequel for it and a REASON why they rebooted it.

Because the movie was a MAJOR LETDOWN. You can't deny Superman Returns was a major letdown.
Superman8 - 3/6/2013, 5:56 PM
@LP4
@Purdue

Biggest problem with Superman Returns was that they used the same ol Lex Luthor real estate plot.

We see Superman basically use all his powers in the plane scene and the scene towards the end where he's flying around Metropolis during the earthquake from Lex's island.

I have no problem with them making the film's focus on how Superman would feel after returning from a 5 year hiatus.

If the villain would have been anybody but Lex, Superman more than likely would have thrown some punches. But his power was basically on full display at different times during the film (LIFTING AN ENTIRE ISLAND OUT OF THE GROUND AND FLYING IT TO SPACE.)

So don't blame Superman, blame Lex for a shitty Superman Returns.

LP4 - 3/6/2013, 5:57 PM
@OhthePurdue- HE IS SUPERMAN. HIS MOVIES SHOULDN'T PURELY BE ABOUT HIS EMOTIONS. That's the problem with you and Brian Singer. You idiots don't realize SUPERMAN IS A COMICBOOK SUPERHERO. He FIGHTS. He was created in the 1930's to BATTLE corruption in the streets.

HE IS A SUPERHERO FIRST AND FOREMOST.

Making a movie devoid of any or all action and making it 100% about his emotions is just [frick]ing stupid.
LP4 - 3/6/2013, 5:59 PM
@Superman8- "So don't blame Superman, blame Lex for a shitty Superman Returns"

How about Blame Brian Singer. THE ONE WHO CHOSE TO MAKE THE MOVIE ABOUT A SHITTY LEX LUTHOR REAL ESTATE PLOT.

It can't even be blamed on the Lex Luthor character. Had Singer used that character correctly, he could have been a total badass in his battlesuit.

IT IS BRIAN SINGER'S [frick]ING FALT YOU BLIND [frick]ING TWITS
LP4 - 3/6/2013, 6:00 PM
Ya know what, i'm not having this debate anymore. You idiots can go enjoy Superman Returns at home while the rest of us SANE people go watch MAN OF STEEL KICK ASS in the theaters.
Superman8 - 3/6/2013, 6:02 PM
@LP4

Idk if i'd say Superman Returns had ZERO action.

The plane scene was one of the greatest scenes from any CBM ever IMO, not a single punch thown, a lot of action, showed most of his powers.

I understand your frustration with the lack of drama, but to say it was a total failure and had ZERO action is a bit much.

I'm looking very forward to Man of Steel, and from what we've learned, it seems your action wish will be granted.
sephiroth211 - 3/6/2013, 6:04 PM
@Nomis regarding that pic of Gusto.
ahhmynuts - 3/6/2013, 6:05 PM
f*ck michael keaton. only reason you guys like him so much was he was the first good batman. bale took batman to new heights. not even close here
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