Batman is known for his gadgets as much as for his combat prowess or his detective skills, and none were more stylized than the designed Tim Burton and his team of creative artists came up with for the original 1989 Batman including not just the Batmobile but the flying Batwing, too. Toys for the upcoming The Flash movie shows how something have been reimagined.
The Flash Film News shared a picture of an upcoming toy set to drop to coincide with Ezra Miller’s TheFlash movie, and it’s of a reimagined Batwing for Michael Keaton’s Batman. The big question now will be if either remain in the final film.
With the DC shakeup of late, it’s inevitable that things have gone through changes, but Ezra Miller’s The Flash was going through things in a pretty big way even before the Discovery Warner buyout. Starting with the changes in director, Covid, and the star’s embattled legal issues with multiple arrests in multiple jurisdictions, the film’s never been exactly stable. Throw in all the recent changes at DC, the cutting of the Batgirl movie that was supposed to reintroduce Michael Keaton’s Batman to the DC universe, and the ousting of both Henry Cavill and Gal Gadot’s scenes, and it’s fair to wonder if Keaton and his new Batwing will remain in the final cut.
Fans of the Batman movie from 1989 will remember Keaton’s batwing, his airplane he uses to gather up the Joker’s (Jack Nicholson) Smilex-filled balloons and let them go sailing away before dipping in front of the moon and recreating the Batman logo in a crowd-pleasing bit of fun. The Joker then shoots him out of the sky and the final act at Gotham Cathedral begins. Batman, a character known as much for his gadgets as anything else, getting updated equipment makes a lot of sense, so his return seeing updated versions of his classic vehicles—sleeker but still familiar—is exactly the type of things fans should expect.
This, of course, is if Keaton is even remaining in the movie. Keaton’s Batman was supposed to be a sort of multiversal version of Marvel’s Tony Stark, that is a character who could pop up in other people’s movies as an intelligent father figure and offer some brief guidance on the proceedings as well as do some bit of fun fan service. With his canning from Batgirl, and other DC costars getting the chop from The Flash which is supposed to be based on the Flashpoint storyline, a plot that would see the DC universe as fans know it detonated into whatever James Gun and Peter Safran have coming up, whether or not Keaton will even appear is anyone’s guess. If he did show up in The Flash, however, Batman would certainly be riding in style.
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