![]() ![]() From the public’s point of view, Keaton seems to embrace his genre and comedic roles in the past. Keaton’s similarity to Thomson is hard to ignore - both of them are “serious” actors whose superhero legacies seem to haunt them. ![]() That meant only one man could fill the shoes and wings of Riggan Thomson - Michael Keaton. Adam West was too old, Val Kilmer had medical issues, George Clooney was stepping behind the camera with The Monuments Men, Christian Bale was too recently in the cape and cowl, and Robert Pattinson was still Edward Cullen, not Bruce Wayne. In 2014, these priorities were reversed with an incredibly meta movie that focuses not on a superhero who knows he’s an actor, but on an actor who is haunted by his superheroic past.īirdman could have only starred a handful of actors - the happy few who have played Batman. In DC, Shazam is the go-to comedic superhero in live-action, and self awareness ripples throughout Harley Quinn.īut all these are superhero projects first, and self-aware movies second. Marvel has two different versions of this - Deadpool, whose R-rated antics mean he’s not technically MCU canon, and She-Hulk, whose adventures on Disney+ forced her to literally climb out of the menu screen and confront a robotic Kevin Feige. There’s always a temptation to make a superhero who is very aware of the massive franchise they’re a part of.
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