Michael Keaton Threatens To Put On The Batsuit Again

Michael Keaton might tell himself that he’s Batman every single day (multiple times per day), […]

September 5, 2017, 8:02pm

Michael Keaton might tell himself that he’s Batman every single day (multiple times per day), but we’ve yet to get a glimpse of him as the Caped Crusader since 1992’s Batman Returns.

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But now the actor is threatening to suit up to take on Russia’s current president.

That’s right. Take a good hard look. Don’t make me put the suit back on

A post shared by Michael Keaton (@michaelkeatondouglas) on Feb 23, 2017 at 10:24pm PST

Keaton posted a photo to his Instagram page, a snap of a New York Times article, which depicts Vladimir Putin walking over through his country’s foreign intelligence agency, the Main Intelligence Directorate, commonly abbreviated as GRU.

Funny thing, and the reason for Keaton’s post, is that the GRU’s logo looks like the Bat-symbol.

The newspaper article and photo appear in the December 30, 2016 edition of the New York Times in an article titled “U.S. Punishes Russia Over Election Hacking.”

We’re not sure why Keaton is reading a two-month-old newspaper, but we’re just happy to see some evidence that print is, in fact, not dead.

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While the actor has recently done a stint as Birdman, and will take that avian theme one step further when he appears as the Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Keaton seems to have distanced himself from the Dark Knight in the years after his portrayal.

It’s finally nice to see him embrace the darkness that he was once known for. Maybe he just wanted to wait for everyone to forget the Joel Schumacher years before he started reminding people?

  Either way, we hope Putin does eventually drive Keaton back into the Bat suit. It’ll make for an interesting story, if anything.

You’ll be able to see Keaton suit up in his next super flick, the MCU’s Homecoming of the Webslinger. Are you excited for the new Spider-Man film? Let us know by ranking your anticipation in our Movie Database!