In 2023, 31 years after the release of Batman Returns, Michael Keaton donned the cape and cowl for a third time in The Flash. We were able to reunite with this version of Batman when Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen went back in time and prevented his mother’s murder, resulting in Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne in the DCEU being replaced with Keaton’s. That said, author John Jackson Miller, who penned the books Batman: Resurrection and Batman: Revolution, opened up to CinemaBlend about why Keaton’s Batman in The Flash felt different to him than the one from the Tim Burton movies.
For context, Resurrection and Revolution not only take place between Batman and Batman Returns, but also exist in a universe where the events of Batman Forever and Batman & Robin aren’t canon, allowing for a new version of Riddler to be introduced alongside other rogues. So Miller obviously knows his way around the Burton-centric Batman continuity several times over, meaning I had to get his thoughts on Michael Keaton’s reprisal in The Flash when I interviewed him. The author started off saying:
