THE FLASH Will NOT Feature The Flashpoint Version Of Batman Following Michael Keaton Casting

THE FLASH Will NOT Feature The Flashpoint Version Of Batman Following Michael Keaton Casting

Despite recent rumours that The Flash will feature the Flashpoint Batman (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan), it's now been revealed that Michael Keaton's return has closed the door on us seeing that version.

By JoshWilding - Jun 23, 2020 05:06 AM EST
Filed Under: The Flash
Source: Twitter (@elmayimbe)

Over the weekend, it was reported that Jeffrey Dean Morgan was being eyed to play the Flashpoint Batman in The Flash, but The Wrap's Umberto Gonzalez has now revealed that the information came from an incorrect and outdated casting grid. In fact, he explains that it was actually a "fake plant" to throw many of Twitter's so-called "scoopers" off the scent. 

Of course, it was yesterday evening that the trades broke the news about Batman star Michael Keaton being in early talks to reprise the role of the Caped Crusader, and Gonzalez reiterates that "he is playing a much older Bruce Wayne from the Burtonverse, NOT Thomas Wayne." 

Here's the bad news, though. 

"There is no Thomas Wayne Flashpoint Batman in THE FLASH," he notes. "It was discussed very early on in development stages a while back which matured into Micheal Keaton reprising his Bruce Wayne from Burtonverse INSTEAD of going the Thomas Wayne direction."

While this is going to disappoint a lot of fans, it does make sense. Despite the planned release of Zack Snyder's Justice League on HBO Max, Warner Bros. is looking to move on from the filmmaker's vision for the DC Extended Universe, so bringing Jeffrey Dean Morgan back as Thomas Wayne might not have landed with moviegoers (it's also likely to have far less impact on casual fans than the return of Keaton as the original big screen Batman). 

It's clearly very early days, but the DCEU is heading down some very unexpected directions, and will soon have a new Batman, albeit one with a familiar face, if these early talks do indeed pan out. 

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DudeGuy
DudeGuy - 6/23/2020, 5:04 AM
That’s fine.
vegetaray
vegetaray - 6/23/2020, 5:07 AM
@OldMan - Agreed...
GwenLantern
GwenLantern - 6/23/2020, 6:20 AM
@OldMan - It's gonna take some getting over, but if you said to me I can either have a JDM Flashpoint Batman or see Michael Keaton reprise his role as Batman... I can have only one... then I'm sorry-not-sorry to say it's Michael Keaton I'm gonna go with every goddamn second of every day!

So fvck Thomas Wayne.
Basically.

:)
SanFranLand
SanFranLand - 6/23/2020, 6:57 AM
@GwenLantern - Hahahah. Same!
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 6/23/2020, 8:01 AM
Similar to the CW, we can have as many bruce wayne's we want as long as he's not "batman"?

I dunno this sounds stupid. We already have several bruce waynes on TV: batwoman, titans, crisis of infinite earths, gotham, etc.

This is over saturating Bruce Wayne, hopefully they stick with Thomas Wayne BATMAN and not another version of Bruce
KWilly
KWilly - 6/23/2020, 5:05 AM
DC being ambitious, again. Oh lawd. They better pull whatever they're trying to do off.
Twenty23Three
Twenty23Three - 6/23/2020, 5:11 AM
Lame.
LameLuka
LameLuka - 6/23/2020, 5:11 AM
As much as Keaton coming back as Batman is exiting. Why not have Flashpoint be the third Flash movie. I was really hoping to see the war between Wonder Woman and Aquaman :(
GwenLantern
GwenLantern - 6/23/2020, 6:27 AM
@LameLuka - This is still Flashpoint, only with Keaton Batman instead of Thomas Wayne Batman.
We could still have essentially the same backdrop WWIII thing with Wonder Woman and Aquaman.

Hope so. Flash needs some reason to have to change the timeline back again (and by back again I mean a new universe, of course, with Battinson as present day Batman and Keaton as a Batman Beyond Bruce Wayne).
inkniron
inkniron - 6/23/2020, 7:10 AM
@GwenLantern - Yeah, I'm going to need an explanation how that works. If Flash ends up in a time and place with Keaton's Batman, it would almost certainly have to be on a different Earth, not an alternate timeline. Any affects from that shouldn't alter his own timeline. Now, if his time travel were to affect a 40 year swing and 2 changes to the Wayne lineage in his own time (not to mention Alfred, Gordon, etc.) just to shoehorn Battinson in, he would have to travel, at minimum, back in time over 100 years to begin with. If you thought there was a lot of over analysis and complaints when they didn't tie it up as neatly as they could in the beloved MCU with time travel, what do you think will happen to the DC movies that are divisive at best?
vegetaray
vegetaray - 6/23/2020, 5:17 AM
I think the Keaton as an older Bruce plays better for wide audiences anyway...Most every Joe Schmo associate him with either Batman or Betelgeuse anyway...Throwing Thomas Wayne out there might be a bid of a head scratcher since non comic book fans might not be too familiar with Flashpoint...

Aside from the obvious familiarity, wouldn’t it be nice to catch up with Burtons version of Batman? I mean Bruce in that universe was already walking the razors edge as far as becoming a full blown psycho anyway...Seeing how far down that path he’s traveled over the past three decades will be very interesting, if not terrifying...Should fill the Flashpoint Thomas Wayne Batman angle to the story quite well...AND if there were any pat live action version of Batman I could see going that path, it’s Keaton’s...
SaxoWolf
SaxoWolf - 6/23/2020, 8:09 AM
@vegetaray - good point
AstonishingArachnid
AstonishingArachnid - 6/23/2020, 5:21 AM
I can't wait to see what next week's Flash movie is going to be.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 6/23/2020, 6:07 AM
@AstonishingArachnid - Honestly might not even need to wait till next week. Give em 2 business days tops
patgreyc
patgreyc - 6/23/2020, 8:54 AM
@AstonishingArachnid - Next week: Breaking News - John Wesley Shipp to replace Ezra Miller!
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 6/23/2020, 5:21 AM
SMDH
tmp3
tmp3 - 6/23/2020, 5:22 AM
The Burton boys are gonna get to see their Batman on the big screen again, odds that Raimi throws a bone to the Tobey-heads for Dr. Strange 2?
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