“That old suit was impossible to wear,” Andy Muschietti said. “He made a suit where this guy could actually move his neck, and lift his leg.” The Flash costume designer Alexandra Byrne also devised a Batman suit that looked similar to what Keaton wore in the 1989 film while also solving one of its biggest practical problems. So, he put on his suit-and the guy looked fucking great.” “Michael hadn’t put on the suit for 30 years, and actually, the last time he had put on the suit, Sean, his son, who's now a talented music producer with his own family, was a little kid. Keaton’s return came with a lot of emotional baggage for the actor, she added. So, Andy and I after the meeting are like, ‘We have Batman…? Do we?’ And we did.” He rolled the script literally under his arm and left jogging as well. He’s a nuts, and seeds, and chicken and broccoli kind of man. “Andy and I are sitting there, a little nervous,” she said. The Muschiettis said they dined at an Italian restaurant in Keaton’s neighborhood. “That was our Batman.” Michael Keaton’s Return We only had four channels, and they were presenting Batman, rerunning Batman as if it was a new series,” Muschietti says. “We grew up in Argentina where the reruns were very important. Muschietti was determined to keep Adam West in the sequence, however. So, no glimpse of Brando as Superman’s father from the 1978 movie, or Meredith and Romero’s Penguin and Joker from the ’60s Batman show. “Brando and Burgess Meredith, Cesar Romero…” he added. “ Lynda Carter was one of them,” he said, referring to her 1970s Wonder Woman TV series. We had to choose, we had to pick,” Andy Muschietti said. “That ‘hall of fame’ of great characters and actors…there’s so many, the list was endless. “The universes start colliding, and we had a lot more characters that we all know that we had to let go because there just wasn’t the time,” Barbara said. Barbara Muschietti, the producer of the film and the director’s sister, says her brother nicknamed this the Chronobowl, since it shows time descending (or ascending in reverse) down a chronological whirlpool. In the climax of the movie, he witnesses spheres that contain imagery from the aforementioned DC superhero projects. When Miller’s Flash fractures the barriers of space and time, he experiences a cascade of realities that resembles an inverted 3D zoetrope. “Many things are very cool things, but they somehow step on the propulsion, on the pacing of the movie, which is something that you always have to have in mind.” The Chronobowl Scene Spoiler Warning: In the climax of the movie, when The Flash opens up worlds within worlds, we glimpse even more versions of the DC heroes from yesteryear, including Christopher Reeve as Superman, George Reeves as Superman, and Adam West as the 1960s swingin’ Batman. There’s also a Supergirl ( Sasha Calle) who takes the place of the Superman that Miller’s The Flash knows from the Zack Snyder movies ( Henry Cavill.) The movie, starring Ezra Miller in dueling roles as the hyper-fast, physics-bending hero, debuts this weekend, and takes the speedy good guy on a crash course through different dimensions where he meets differing versions of himself, as well as a Batman ( Michael Keaton) who is very different from the Batman he knows ( Ben Affleck). “If you see the four-hour version of this movie, which was my first assembly, you will see what I left out,” director Andy Muschietti says. It’s almost easier to discuss what it doesn’t include. Few films, however, contain the multitudes present in the new DC comic book saga The Flash. From the two smash-hit animated Spider-Verse movies to best-picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once, movies about alternate realities and variant versions of heroes and villains have taken over pop culture. Multiverses are all overwhelming the multiplexes.
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