>>10506280They were like 10 years too late to do a Michael Keaton Batman revival unless it was Batman Beyond. Batman 89 was a Gen X thing and Keaton was quickly replaced by a half dozen other Batman who each subesquent generation is more nostalgic for.
As stated, the one place he could have worked is in Batman Beyond. You have Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne, possibly with an opening scene at his current real life age, that establishes why he stopped being Batman, which is what they did in the cartoon (in the show, he had a heart attack during a fight and had to defend himself with one of the criminals' guns, which was a crisis of conscience). For the rest of the movie they could have aged him up another 10 years. That would have tapped into the Gen Xers who are nostalgic for Keaton's Batman and the Millennials who are nostalgic for Batman Beyond, while also giving their kids and the zoomers a young, high-tech Batman in a cyberpunk inspired Gotham City of tomorrow. And it would have given them a clean slate without having to jam the baggage of the past 30 years of movies in.
