Welcome back everyone is Charlie this is going to be my new Batman video there are a
lot of questions based on the Michael Keaton news him coming back as Batman
what does this mean for Robert Pattinson 'he's batman the next Justice League
movie what is canon what is not so we'll break it all down we got some more
details from Warner Brothers according to some of the trade publications
yesterday so there's a bunch of Easter eggs it's not quite as complicated as it
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and let me know which other movies you want Michael Keaton's Batman to cross
over with that's right he's going to be in multiple upcoming DC movies I'll talk
about those through the video just because it's all part of Warner Brothers
plan to have this all make sense believe it or not they do have a plan
for all this so first thing number 5 Michael Keaton is coming back as Batman
while we also have them launching a major new Batman trilogy with Robert
Pattinson and Matt Reeves and we have Ben Affleck's Batman in the upcoming
Justice League Snyder cut future Justice League crossover movies and then future
Batman spin-off movies with other characters like a live-action Batman
Beyond movie the future is Batman as far as the eye can see it's a good time to
be a Batman fan but the big question now is as which Batman actors are going to
cross over with the other DC characters and who's going to be in that next Justice
League team so surprisingly Warner Brothers is actually borrowing from the
DC TV universe strategy in a rare move to connect everything and make it all
make sense normally it's the TV shows that copy what the movies are doing but
comic book movies and superhero movies have evolved to the point where fans
understand weirder concepts and story twists that the comics have been trading
on for 40 or 50 years and it's all about the multiverse Marvel is taking its
movies in the MCU in the exact same direction take a hard left into the
multiverse to keep things fresh and weird so number 4 according to The Wrap
yesterday Warner Brothers plans are that Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson's
Batman trilogy is still meant to be the future of the Batman character it's
their crown jewel of Batman in the movies so to speak and to that end
they're giving Matt Reeves pretty much free rein to reboot the character in the
Creator for that franchisee any way that he
wants so everything about the look in the feel of Batman the tone the setting
the context will be very different from the Zack Snyder driven ben affleck
batman of the Justice League universe in the DC EU in in order to give him a
fresh start with the new actor and the new sort of Batman franchise they're
letting that new Batman trilogy exist off in its own bubble of continuity
separate from Justice League the Snyder cut however you want to think about that
line of continuity that started with the Man of Steel movie what a Matt Reeves
previous statements was something like yes the movie is part of the DC comic
book universe kind of in the sense that all the characters exist as part of a
single IP brand under DC Comics but in reality it's not meant to be connected
to other movies they're not going to be referencing Superman during the Batman
movie next year they're not going to be referencing the Justice League or
anything like that they'll just be talking about the Batman
characters inside Gotham City there's always the opportunity for them to
change their minds about that in the future but it's not meant to start out
that way and here's where we get to the multiverse where it all starts to make a
little more sense number three Michael Keaton is coming
back as Batman in multiple new DC movies starting with the flash flashpoint movie
they're going to be filming that movie early next year into bhoot he's also
coming back as the older version of his Batman from the 1989 Tim Burton Batman
movies so they're canonizing the burton verse to the larger DC EU multiverse
remember how I said the movies are taking a page from the DC TV shows
crisis on Infinite Earths did the same thing last year with almost all the
previous DC movies and TV shows that have ever existed going all the way back
to the 1966 Adam West Batman series they even had a cameo scene from Burt Ward as
his version of Robin at the time for preparation is passed
the crisis is now upon us all most of you saw at least some of that so you saw
how they executed that they just had short cameo scenes with a bunch of
different versions of the characters from different movies and TV shows they
only did a handful in each episode but you get the idea everything is canon now
because of the multiverse the difference with a DC EU in the other DC movies is
that it's harder to say that of the movie side of things until they
literally have a multiverse scene like that in a DC movie like you can't
necessarily say that Christopher Nolan's Batman is connected to the DC EU because
of the multiverse until you actually see someone from the Christopher Nolan
movies interact with someone from the DC EU movies the flash flashpoint movie
with Michael Keaton's 1989 Batman will be the first official time they do
something like that but that's them canonizing the burton verse you can't
necessarily say that every single DC movie is going to be connected now
inside the DC EU I'm sure there will be a lot of other funny multiverse
references hopefully john wesley shipp gets a cameo scene hopefully Kevin
Conroy at some point we'll get a cameo scene in one of the live-action DC
movies the version of flashpoint that they're going to be doing for the flash
movie is going to be very different from the comic book version
Ezra Miller has spent more time talking about the movie in the context of
broadening the multiverse then talking about the actual flashpoint comic post
story multiverse stories are very common for the flash they've been doing the
multiverse with alternate versions of the characters of the flash TV show for
several years now so even if you haven't watched that TV show in a while you
totally know what's going on it should be impossible now it's be
impossible now so number two next big question the main reason why they're
bringing Michael Keaton back right now instead of say using Robert Pattinson
Batman in the flash flashpoint movie for a big crossover is because of what I
said before they want to protect Matt Reeves from having to overcomplicate his
Batman movie stories with the idea of the multiverse but DC needs a Batman in
its bigg Justice League crossovers Batman is just too big of an IP to leave
him out of these big Justice League movies in the DC EU Ben Affleck has
already said that he's done being Batman in the new
movies that's the whole reason why he said he passed the torch to Robert
Pattinson this is the clip of him on Kimmel talking about it last year you
know I tried to direct a version of it and worked with a really good
screenwriter but just kind of couldn't come up with a version that couldn't
crack it and so I thought it was like you know time to let someone else take a
shot at they got some really good people as much of a bummer as that is he is
coming back to do additional voiceover dialogue for the Justice League Snyder
cut but right now that's it and technically that's not a new movie
that's an old movie the Zack Snyder never got to finish making and now he's
just finishing it so as the rap deadline variety all the
other trade publications were saying yesterday Warner Brothers solution for
having their crossover Batman in the future DC EU movies is just to do the
older style Batman with Michael Keaton in a Nick Fury type of role someone to
cameo and crossover in multiple movies helping tie everything together leading
up to another big team-up Justice League sequel down the road and because it's
the multiverse just because they're bringing Keaton back doesn't mean that
they're erasing the previous DC EU movies those will still be Canon Ben
Affleck's Batman will still be canon but because Matt Reeves won't be done with
his Batman trilogy for at least seven or eight years however long it takes them
to make three new Batman movies and Warner Brothers will probably want to do
their next Justice League movie before that happens and they don't want to
crossover with Robert Pattinson Batman franchise during that trilogy Michael
Keaton's Batman from Earth 89 is just the solution to that problem you need a
Batman in that next Justice League movie but you don't want to touch Robert
Pattinson while they're finishing that trilogy pick up the bat phone and offer
Michael Keaton a giant pile of cash to come back and even though I haven't
mentioned it yet Michael Keaton is actually doing the exact same thing with
his vulture character in the sinister six team-up that they're building up to
in the Marvel movies in the Sony spider-man movies so this isn't the
first time that Michael Keaton has done this he's actually going to be in the
Morbius movie asses vulture character from spider-man homecoming next year so
it'll give you a good idea for what it's going to be like seeing his Batman pop up
in a bunch of different DC movies but since Warner Brothers is still saying
that Robert Pattinson's Batman is the main Batman I think that just implies
that when Michael Keaton does show up as Batman inside other DC
movies though mostly be smaller cameo scenes when they made the Nick Fury
comparison think about it this way they've only been three Marvel movies
really where Nick Fury was in most of the movie most of the time he just shows
up for a couple scenes then goes away and I'm also kind of expecting that what
Michael Keaton's Batman does show up on screen with the other DC characters most
of the time he will not be wearing a Batman costume he'll just look like old
Bruce Wayne from Batman Beyond so number one obviously live-action Batman Beyond
is the other thing the Internet has been talking about all these small Michael
Keaton cameo scenes will be totally awesome to watch in the thought of him
in a new Justice League movie sounds amazing but I still think that Warner
Brothers ultimate plan is to develop another new Batman franchise after Matt
Reeves movies with Batman Beyond Sony is doing the exact same thing now with its
spider-man movies it has the main MCU spider-man movies with Tom Hall and
Peter Parker but it's also doing the spider-man into the spider versed movies
with alternate versions of Peter Parker and other spider-man and it's also doing
the venom movies with Tom Hardy former Batman movie villain so obviously Warner
Brothers wants to get to the point where they can capitalize on other Batman
characters in the movies and Batman Beyond is just one of the biggest most
popular characters that they've never tried in any of the big live-action
movies it is a totally fresh take on the character my only hope for that is that
they do wind up doing Batman Beyond in the movies that they'll let Kevin Conroy
cameo at some point but everyone let me know in the comments below what do you
want them to do with Michael Keaton's Batman outside of the flash flashpoint
movie there was a brand new Superman movie trailer that DC just dropped I'll
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Batman trilogy thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe
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