Date 04/01/2017 - News People
CBS News reports that Michael Keaton has a simple explanation for why he left the ?Batman? franchise -- and it has to do with the script for ?Batman Forever.? ?It sucked,? Keaton told the Hollywood Reporter. ?I knew it was in trouble when he [Joel Schumacher] said, ?Why does everything have to be so dark??? Keaton had worked on 1989?s ?Batman? and 1992?s ?Batman Returns? with Tim Burton, launching a tradition of dark takes on popular comic books. Keaton declined to return for 1995?s ?Batman Forever? after seeing the script. Val Kilmer starred instead, and Keaton?s career slowed down for years.
