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SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING's Michael Keaton Bluntly Explains Why He Chose Not To Return For BATMAN FOREVER |
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Tuesday, 03 January 2017 18:20 |
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It's been well documented that Michael Keaton declined to reprise the role of The Dark Knight in Warner Bros.' Batman Forever when director Tim Burton left the project, but during THR's Award Chatter Podcast, the Academy Award-nominated actor reveals that he did "hang on for many meetings", but ultimately the script and new director Joel Schumacher's attitude to the material caused him to walk away.
"Let me simplify it for you: it sucked," laughed Keaton after addressing the years of speculation about his departure from the role. "The script was never good, I didn't understand why he [Schumacher] wanted to do what he wanted to do, and I knew it was in trouble when he said, 'why does everything have to be so dark?'"
Keaton also says that he would have been more open to trying something different with the tone etc if Burton was the one calling the shots, but he felt Schumacher simply didn't "get" the character.
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