New set photos show a costumed Michael Keaton's Batman return in HBO Max's Batgirl movie:
✖ Batman returns! Photos from the set of DC's Batgirl show Michael Keaton back in black as the Dark Knight of the Burtonverse, back in action — this time in the DC Extended Universe — after a run-in with Barry Allen in The Flash. In the HBO Max Original movie starring Leslie Grace as the titular caped crusader, the 70-year-old Keaton suits up to mentor Barbara Gordon's Batgirl, the costumed alter ego of GCPD Commissioner Jim Gordon's daughter.
After playing the Dark Knight in 1989's Batman and the 1992 sequel reuniting him with director Tim Burton, Keaton turned down donning the cape and cowl a third time in 1995's Burton-less Batman Forever. On convincing Keaton to return from across the Multiverse in The Flash, director Andy Muschietti revealed at DC FanDome China:"We sent him a great script."
Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah direct Batgirl. In October, the directing duo teased"the real Batman" will mentor the superheroine in their first foray into the DCEU.