Michael Keaton's New DCEU Batman Suit Restores 1989's Original Plan
Michael Keaton will wear a new Batsuit in The Flash, featuring a new utility belt that makes good on the original plans for 1989’s Batman. The superhero blockbusters of the 2010s and 2020s arguably wouldn’t exist if not for the success and influence of Keaton’s first outing as Batman, and while it succeeded as both a movie and blueprint for movie marketing, the film’s production was rife with controversy. With Michael Keaton already being a hard sell for Batman comic book readers before the film was released, one detail about his suit’s utility belt caused enough controversy to be changed during production. Now, Keaton’s The Flash suit will give Batman the belt he was originally meant to have in 1989.
Batman’s 1989 suit was a significant departure from the comics, eschewing the grey bodysuit with a black or navy-blue cape and cowl in favor of an all-black suit of heavy-duty bulletproof armor for Batman. According to Batman’s production designer Anton Furst, the suit was initially going to include a black utility belt as well, leading to publicized backlash from fans who were possible already upset by the lack of gray on the suit, leading Furst to make a compromise. The new belt, which appeared in the final cuts of Batman and Batman Returns, was a bright brass color, which he described as “yellow enough,” pleased viewers in both films.
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Earth-89 and Keaton’s Batman will return in 2023’s The Flash, which takes place sometime after Batman Returns and possibly the Batman ’89 comic series, with Keaton donning a new iteration of the Batsuit. The suit looks like a technological upgrade from his Returns outfit, using its chest logo and more armored
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