“It sucked… It just was — awful,” Michael Keaton says of Batman Forever in the following “CBS Sunday Morning” interview piece, which largely asks “Where has Michael Keaton been?” It’s a good little piece as we learn Keaton turned down a reported $15 million to play Batman a third time. The role would eventually go to Val Kilmer and while the question of where has Keaton been floats in the air… Well, since Batman Returns he’s made The Paper, Quentin Tarantino‘s Jackie Brown, starred in White Noise, voiced characters in Pixar’s Cars and Toy Story 3 and was an excellent contribution to The Other Guys.
Granted, none of those roles stacks up to his new film, Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), which I had the pleasure of seeing just this morning and while I’ll have my review for you on Monday, let me just say the hype around this one is for real, but if you haven’t yet seen any of the trailers do yourself a favor and don’t watch them. In fact, there are some clips from the movie in the following “Sunday Morning” piece, skip over them if you can. I hadn’t watched a trailer or a clip before seeing the movie this morning and seeing it for the first time all the big screen is the only way to go.
In addition to the “Sunday Morning” piece, there’s a Charlie Rose segment where Keaton and Birdman co-star Edward Norton discuss the differences between Birdman and Batman, despite the fact there is some correlation between Keaton’s character in the film and Keaton’s professional life.
Check out both segments below and if you live in New York or Los Angeles look for Birdman in theaters now.
