When it was first announced that comic actor
Michael Keaton would be playing Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, in director
Tim Burton's live-action
Batman, the fan community was in an uproar. However, Keaton delivered a surprisingly complex performance and won over not only the fan community, but most of the world, raking in over $410 million at the box office and ensuring that the movie would launch a franchise.
Of course, we all know the tragic end to that story [insert Bat-nipples joke here], but what we haven't heard before is what Keaton thinks of
Christopher Nolan's new vision of Batman in
Batman Begins and
The Dark Knight.
While Keaton admitted in a recent interview with
Access Hollywood that he hasn't seen
Batman Begins or
The Dark Knight from beginning to end, he had high praise for both Nolan and
Heath Ledger.
"[Nolan's] unbelievably great. He’s the one who got it...he got it and he took it to a whole other level."
Keaton said that he appreciated the darker tone of Nolan's films and said that that was the direction he woudl have liked to take the character if he had done a third
Batman.
"That general direction was always where I thought that character and the story could go. He just did it brilliantly... That Heath Ledger performance [in The Dark Knight] is unbelievable."