Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my new Batman video we just
found out about some really cool Michael Keaton Batman deleted scenes from crisis
on Infinite Earths because of some new publications so we'll break it down
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crisis on the video there were already a bunch of Batman Easter eggs and cameo
scenes that made it into the final cut of the episodes but some of these scenes
that the cutting room floor are mind-blowing so number 5 recently a
bunch more deleted scenes in details from crisis on Infinite Earths were
revealed the producers said they reached out to almost every single movie and TV
actor who had played a major DC character like Batman Superman Wonder
Woman Green Lantern you get the idea yes they even reached out to Ryan Reynolds
for Green Lantern cameo scene you're welcome Canada they were really trying
to get as many big iconic versions of their most popular DC characters going
all the way back to the Adam West 1966 Batman series with the Burt Ward cameo
scene they went for some super deep cuts
But the time for preparation has past
the crisis is now upon us all. Holy crimson skies of death!
But when it comes to Michael Keaton deleted scenes
it was actually going to be a big part of the storyline that he would have
been involved in it would have been way more than just a brief cameo scene so
we'll explain what that alternate storyline would have been had he
appeared in the episode Michael Keaton obviously making the rounds again as The
Dark Knight because of all the DC movie news in the flash flashpoint movie I've
already made a couple videos about that but Michael Keaton is coming back as his
older Batman from the multiverse inside the flash movie and he's going to cross
over into other future DC movies but he's playing an older version of his
Batman from the Tim Burton movies the Burton verse as most fans call those
movies so number four everybody saw the version of the Michael Keaton cameo
scene during the opening scene of episode 1
crisis on Infinite Earths featuring Batman's earth 89 because that was the
year his first Batman movie came out because now the entire multiverse is
about to come under attack there is a malevolent force at work one
driven by a singular goal so that was Robert wuhl who played Alexander Knox in
those Batman movies he worked for the Gotham newspaper and that's why he's
reading the same newspaper from the movie with the headline Batman catches
Joker one of the first Michael Keaton deleted scenes would have been paying
off this alternate newspaper headline here waynetech CEO Bruce Wayne to marry
socialite Selina Kyle the picture looks like it's supposed to be sometime after
the events of Batman Returns the funny thing about Michael Keaton appearing in
the flash flashpoint movie is the older Batman is that they're actually supposed
to be sort of sidestepping the Joel Schumacher Batman films in explaining
what Keaton's Batman has been doing since the ending of Batman Returns so
obviously in this first deleted scene they would have addressed that in some
way I also think they were going to use this to link his Batman to the birds of
prey series from the early 2000s because they had a big cameo scene with Huntress
during that too and Oracle Barbara Gordon she was only on the comms but this was
the actress that played Batgirl on that series there's a new version of Batgirl
that's going to appear on Titan season 3 but they haven't started filming that
yet the version of the Huntress on that series was the daughter of Batman and
Catwoman there were some other details during this first Batman scene though
that were a little off some continuity errors and inconsistencies I think it
had something to do with the full version of the new Michael Keaton Batman
deleted scene what that was supposed to be too because that was going to be in a
completely different episode some of you probably noticed these the first time
the episode aired the symbol shining in the bat-signal isn't Michael Keaton's
Batman symbol it looks more like a combination of the Batwoman symbol mixed
with the Batman Beyond symbol but this is what the Batman Beyond symbol looks
like so that's not what they're going for we don't know what year this is
supposed to be but if they were going to include this younger version of Batman
in this other part of the scene that I'm assuming that this is meant to take
place right after the events of the first or second Batman movie and that's
why he's reading the newspaper that says Batman catches Joker because he caught
the Joker in the late 80s if you're assuming that that movie took place in
1989 my assumption with the weird Batman symbol is that it's probably because
Michael Keaton backed out Warner Brothers probably told them they weren't
allowed to use Keaton's Batman symbol and outside of a Batman cameo a joke
easter-egg would be the biggest thing that you can include so they probably
just said budget nobody's going to question it that much they're just going to enjoy
seeing Batman and Joker stuff on screen is the multiverse and they could be
vague about what year this is taking place number three the second huge
Michael Keaton deleted scene is actually much much bigger prolly cooler because
it would have been a big story arc during crisis there were new materials
from the production that were released this past week is part of the new crisis
book that they're selling for the production with a bunch of original art
and storyboards showing Michael Keaton as a Kingdom Come Batman Beyond version
of the character it just blows my mind how cool would this have been had they
been able to include him in the actual episode this way don't get me wrong
Kevin Conroy is amazing as Batman I love that he got to play a live-action Batman
finally even though I wasn't super happy with what they did with that version of
Batman on screen in the story but it's clear now from all these details that
what they originally intended on doing was giving that whole storyline to
Michael Keaton's Batman and either he would have had to cameo scenes or they
would have rearranged things and he would have just been part of this one
episode in this huge story line with the Paragons but in episode 2 instead of
traveling to earth 99 for Batman Beyond easter-egg they would have just traveled
to earth 89 and it would have been mostly the same story because a look at
the Batcave here it's a combination of a bunch of different classic bat caves the
consoles here with all the buttons on them that look like they're old-timey
are from the Adam West's 1966 Batcave but look here underneath this tarp is
the Michael Keaton Batmobile from the first Batman movie so clearly they had
been planning on doing Keaton Batman the whole time now there
was a lot of other stuff that they included as part of the Kingdom Come
Easter eggs so they never referenced Superman or the Justice League during
the Keaton Batman movies but in context this older Batman had killed his
Superman and his Joker as well as the rest of his rogues gallery of villains
so he was kind of the darkest timeline version of Batman like his quote says
battle not with monsters lest he become a monster which I believe was a Batman V
Superman quote I don't know if I would have liked to have seen Michael Keaton
as a darkest timeline Batman as it stands I wasn't really happy with the
darkest timeline Kevin Conroy Batman when his Batman from the animated series
is probably one of the most nuanced and righteous versions of the character
remember from Batman Beyond in the first episode where he essentially hung up the
cape and cowl because he was forced to resort to using a gun because he had a
heart attack and that was the only way he could defeat the villains then you
have darkest timeline Batman who just mowed through every single villain and a
lot of the heroes it sounds like too.
Clark oh he said yes anyone with the
badge or a flag life only makes sense if you force it but I think what was
happening at the time is Michael Keaton was probably in early talks with Warner
Brothers to come back in the movies is Batman so that probably hurt the chances
of them actually pulling off Michael Keaton during crisis on Infinite Earths
and the producers said that they didn't get any extra budget for casting for
cameos or anything like that so a lot of the actors that they went to the movie
actors did ask for money that they couldn't pay or they just had really big
scheduling problems and couldn't actually make the days that they wanted
them so yes they did reach out to Henry Cavill Superman
Ben Affleck Batman gal gadot Wonder Woman Christian Bale's Batman even
though they all said no they were able to get Azra Miller which is probably one
of the best surprises of the whole crossover now you can say that the
Justice League DC EU movies are cannon to the arrowverse multiverse hopefully
we'll see Grant Gustin cameo in the flash flashpoint movie next year even if
he's only there for two seconds it'd be really really cool but number one
Michael Keaton is supposed to show up in that flash movie the news reports about
his crossover make it sound like he's not going to be in the entire movie but
because his new Batman contract hasn't crossing over into other future DC
movies eventually doing a Batman Beyond movie hopefully they'll probably have
some sort of post-credit scene with him that references continued adventures
across the multiverse or he'll get stuck on the main earth of the Justice League
movie or they'll have some loose flashpoint explanation so that he
doesn't have to jump back and forth between Earth's every single time he
shows up in a new DC movie there were only loosely basing the plot of the
flash movie on flashpoint it won't be exactly like the comic book flashpoint
and just to be clear they're not replacing Ben Affleck's Batman with a
flashpoint twist so Michael Keaton will still be a different Batman Ben Affleck
will still canonically be the bat of this earth robert pattinson 'he's
Batman is also not going to replace Ben Affleck's Batman either there's a whole
lot of Batman that's going to be flying around next year so it's a good time to
be a Batman fan if you are a huge fan of the franchise there might be a couple
small flashpoint details that they used to retcon things but it's not going to be
like them just erasing Ben Affleck from the timeline so people that are worried
about that or want Ben Affleck to come back don't worry I did just do a new
video about his Batman because of all the reports lately about him coming back
to do Batman stuff for the Justice League Snyder cut so you can actually
click here to watch those and you can click here for that brand new stranger
things season 4 trailer thank you so much for watching everyone stays safe
I'll see you guys tonight!