‘They can take what you’ve done and change it’: Tim Burton highly critical of Batman and Superman in The Flash

Michael Keaton was slated to play Bruce Wayne/Batman in a Batgirl spinoff before Warners decided never to release the film (even though it was completed).

Regardless, he’s off to a good start against bad luck, as he appears in Batou’s costume in The Flash, released last June, whose global box office results have weighed heavily on the company’s accounts. Warner, amid superhero fatigue. and the legal case surrounding its main artist, Ezra Miller.

If Keaton was able to make a little bit of his return, even if it was short-lived, you can’t say that Tim Burton didn’t appreciate seeing him in the film. And even less the appearance of Nicolas Cage in a Superman costume.

This is one of The Flash’s most amazing cameos: during the scene in which Barry Allen sees parallel universes passing by, we can see the actor in a Superman costume fighting a giant spider. A nod to Superman, which Burton worked on for a long time with Cage, from which the actor’s costume tests remain.

“I’m a silent rebel against all this”

“I don’t regret at all that I couldn’t make this film” Burton said in an interview British Film Institute.

“On the other hand, I will say this: When you work on a project for so long and it doesn’t happen, it affects you for the rest of your life. Because these things are exciting and every project is an unknown journey. And we haven’t reached our destination yet, but it’s an experience that never leaves you.”

And to drive the point home: “I hate studios a bit. They can take what you’ve done, My Batman or whatever, and twist it culturally or whatever you want to call it.

Even if you’ve been a slave to Disney or Warner Bros for years, they can do whatever they want. So, in the last years of my life, I have quietly rebelled against all this.”