The Michael Keaton Solo Batman Project That Was Reportedly Scrapped
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On December 8, 2022, John Rocha and Jeff Sneider streamed an episode of their show, "The Hot Mic," where Sneider dropped an intriguing tidbit regarding the plan for Michael Keaton's Batman. According to his sources, plans were in place for him to get his own solo film, but the powers that be — DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran, President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery David Zaslav, or someone else entirely — elected to wipe it from the release slate. Sneider also claims that Christina Hodson was the one tasked with writing the project.
Other than these few morsels of information, Sneider didn't have anything else to offer regarding this production. Thankfully, it didn't take long for the plot to thicken elsewhere. Umberto Gonzalez of TheWrap took to Twitter to add another eyebrow-raising detail to this canceled Keaton Batman movie situation. "FYI @TheInSneider, the "solo" Michael Keaton Batman movie you're talking about that Christina Hodson was writing was, in fact, the BATMAN BEYOND movie," he wrote, claiming that we were due to see a live-action adaptation of the beloved DC animated series, which ran from 1999 to 2001.