The Flash’s Box Office Failure Means You’ll Never Watch Michael Keaton’s Oscar-Winning 2014 Comeback Movie The Same Way

The disappointing reception to 2023’s The Flash may have changed audiences’ perspectives on one of Michael Keaton’s most-celebrated roles from 2014’s Birdman of (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Keaton was confirmed to be joining the cast of The Flash in August 2020, reprising his role of Bruce Wayne from 1989’s Batman and 1992’s Batman Returns in 2023’s live-action adaptation of DC Comics’ Flashpoint storyline. Despite Keaton’s involvement heightening the nostalgia of The Flash, the project still performed abysmally at the box office, becoming one of the biggest bombs of all time, which gives new meaning to one of Keaton’s previous roles an Academy Award-winning film from Alejandro González Iñárritu.