Michael Keaton Reveals How He Really Feels About 'Batgirl' Getting Shelved

Michael Keaton is opening up about Batgirl.

The 72-year-old actor, who reprised his role of Batman in the scrapped Warner Bros. film with Leslie Grace, spoke out about the situation to GQ.

If you didn’t know, the studio shelved the film in August 2022 for cost-cutting reasons. The movie, which had a budget of $90 million, was already shot and through post-production when the decision was made, reportedly due to a tax incentive.

Keep reading to find out more…

“No, I didn’t care one way or another. Big, fun, nice check,” he said of the film being scrapped, as GQ noted the actor was “rubbing his fingers together in the universal gesture for ‘moolah.’”

“I like those boys. They’re nice guys,” he said of directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. “I pull for them. I want them to succeed, and I think they felt very badly, and that made me feel bad. Me? I’m good.”

He also spoke about 1989′s Batman director Tim Burton.

“Tim deserves enormous credit. He changed everything. I can’t necessarily say this, but there’s a strong possibility there is no Marvel Universe, there is no DC Universe, without Tim Burton. He was doubted and questioned.”

Find out the upsetting way Leslie Grace found out the movie was cancelled.