Michael Keaton can solely assume that Warner Bros. Discovery’s shelving of the nearly-complete, HBO Max-bound Batgirl film was a “good” enterprise resolution — despite the fact that it performed a task in derailing his return to the function of Bruce Wayne/Batman.
Requested by TVLine for his response to Batgirl’s unceremonious cancellation, Keaton stated within the Emmys press room on Monday evening, “I feel it was a enterprise resolution; I’m going to imagine it was an excellent one.
“I actually don’t know,” he added. “I don’t observe that that a lot.”
Keaton had simply collected his first ever Emmy, for Excellent Lead Actor in a Restricted or Anthology Sequence or Film, for Hulu’s Dopesick.
The choice to shelve the nearly-complete Batgirl film — which was meant to bypass theaters and premiere on HBO Max — despatched shockwaves throughout the leisure biz in early August. The standalone pic, starring Within the Heights‘ Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl, by some accounts was not testing nicely sufficient with audiences to instill confidence in Warner Bros. Discovery.
“We’re not going to launch [a] film till it’s prepared. We’re not going to launch a film to make a quota. And we’re not going to place a film out except we consider in it,” WBD’s President and CEO David Zaslav later defined. “Notably with DC, the place we predict we wish to pivot and we wish to elevate and we wish to focus.”
Batgirl was to mark one among Keaton’s first encores as Batman since 1992’s Batman Returns. He additionally reprised the function for the long-delayed, now-in-limbo, Ezra Miller-starring The Flash standalone film, and he reportedly has been changed with Ben Affleck in Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom (in theaters Dec. 23).
So, when may Keaton subsequent, truly be seen as Batman…? If ever?
“I don’t know. We’ll see,” Keaton instructed TVLine. Reprising the function for Batgirl “was nice, it was enjoyable,” he stated. “I actually don’t know.” (With reporting by Vlada Gelman)
