The Flash Wayne Manor Set Photos Tease Michael Keaton's Return to the Gotham of Batman '89

| May 6, 2021 |

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Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne in Tim Burton's Batman (1989) — *Photo: Warner Bros.*

DC Films' long-gestating Flash movie is finally in product subsequently years in development. While it'll be nice to run into the speedster headline his own blockbuster for the very first fourth dimension, there's no dubiety the moving-picture show'south biggest describe is the render of Michael Keaton every bit an older, wiser Batman poised to become a mentor to young Barry Allen.

Always since the first reports of Keaton's Gotham comeback dropped last June, fans have formed theories nearly what the actor's return to the cape and cowl might entail as well as which Batman he's playing. The answer might seem obvious but in a DC multiverse full of infinite earths and infinite versions of Batman, there'due south always the possibility that Keaton could be playing an alternate version of the Bruce Wayne he first portrayed in the 1989 Tim Burton blockbuster.

But new photos taken from the fix of The Wink seem to set the record straight: Barry Allen will detect Keaton's Bruce Wayne in a Gotham Urban center very like the one in Batman '89 equally evidenced by the original big-screen Wayne Manor. Indeed, Warner Bros. has been spotted exterior Burghley Business firm, a 16th-century English country house in Stamford, England, which looks very similar to Keaton's Wayne Manor in his offset outing every bit the Bat. (The get-go motion picture used Knebworth House in Hertfordshire equally the exterior of the manor.)

We know picayune nigh Keaton's return to the greatcoat and cowl across that at the moment. In fact, until just a few weeks agone, the actor's interest in the movie was still very much in the air. In an interview with Borderline back in March, Keaton cast uncertainty that his return was a certainty, suggesting that he would have to encounter how the Covid-19 situation evolved in the U.k. earlier committing to the production.

"To be honest with you, you know what worries me more than annihilation near all this stuff? It's COVID," Keaton told Deadline. "I'm more than concerned. I proceed my eye more than on the COVID situation in the UK than annihilation. That will determine everything, and and so that's why I'm living exterior the city here on 17 acres, staying away from everybody, because the COVID thing has got me really concerned. So, that'south my starting time affair about all projects. I wait at it and go, is this matter going to kill me, literally? And you know, if it doesn't, and so we talk."

Only in April, Keaton'due south talent agency, ICM Partners, confirmed to The Wrap that the actor has signed on for the film, which will also run into the render of Ben Affleck as the DCEU version of the Dark Knight as well as Ezra Miller equally the Flash. The film is said to be based on the iconic DC storyline Flashpoint , which sees Barry go back in time to relieve his mother, completely altering the timeline with disastrous results. Presumably, it'll be up to an older Bruce to assistance Barry fix the timeline.

The Flash hits theaters on Nov. 4, 2022.