Michael Keaton is the voice of Ken in Toy Story 3, the first high profile film he has been a part of in over ten years. He will also be in Adam McKay’s film The Other Guys this summer. Keaton is getting more action this summer than he has since the Clinton administration.
In Toy Story 3 interviews, he has talked about wanting to do a sequel to Beetlejuice. Please don’t back to Beetlejuice. It would be all CGI and 3D and everything you loved about Tim Burton was killed by Hollywood years ago. I know it seems retro to go back to your old role. Bruce Willis did it with Die Hard. Stallone did it in Rambo and Rocky. Trust me. No one wants to see Beetlejuice and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Like a lot of our older actors, I’m sure he would love to get in a hot tub time machine and go back to the 80s. where Keaton was a star.
Night Shift was his breakout performance next to the Fonz directed by Ron Howard. Mr. Mom was great because it was such an outrageous concept for a man to stay home. Gung Ho to this day is the only film about unions that is funny.
Johnny Dangerously was funny. The Dream Team showed us mental health in a comedic way. Beetlejuice was a great character and film directed by Tim Burton. Before Burton had Johnny Depp play everything in every film, he had Michael Keaton. Michael Keaton was Batman in 1989, showing us a dark, serious superhero film 19 years before The Dark Knight. Batman was such a departure from not just superhero films but almost every 80s film. After Batman, Keaton took on more serious roles like My Life, Pacific Heights and Clean and Sober. Go ahead show a little range.
“And like that, he’s gone.”-The Usual Suspects (Michael Keaton isn’t in this but there is a character named Keaton)
What happened after Batman Returns? I read on Wikipedia once that he turned down $30 million for a third Batman that Burton wasn’t directing. Did this blacklist him? Is this story even accurate? Keaton had a genuine uniqueness in his films. Why did the offers dry up? He still did solid work before the millennium. The Paper reunited him with Night Shift director Ron Howard in what is a very underrated film.
Keaton was good in Multiplicity, a film by a past his prime Harold Ramis.
Why hasn’t he been on a TV show that has kept him steadily working? While Gary Sinise has a huge show, Charlie Sheen is paid a ton, even Howie Mandel is a prime time regular, Keaton is hurting for work.
John Travolta got the resurrection of a lifetime with Pulp Fiction. No one gets that kind of rebirth, even other Tarantino actors. Michael Keaton was in Jackie Brown. He was good in Jackie Brown. Maybe that was supposed to be his comeback. For some reason it wasn’t. How did this man go from Batman to Jack Frost? Live From Baghdad is great work. Why is he in these films with tweens like Herbie Fully Loaded and Post Grad.
I’ve never heard about him being a jerk on set or drug problems. I had read about Chevy Chase sabotaging his career. We all know what happened to Lindsay Lohan. Where is Michael Keaton?
Michael Keaton could still be very productive in a film, maybe not above the title but still contribute. A young director who remembers what he’s capable of should take him for a spin. Someone like Jason Reitman or Rian Johnson.
I want to know the mystery behind what happened to Michael Keaton and why he has been robbed from the public? Is he picking terrible scripts like the one where he’s a prisoner getting an organ transplant? Or is he relegated to family films now with the good work he’s done in the tween demographic?
Maybe Quentin will give him another shot.
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