Kilmer has told of the alienation he felt on the set of Batman Forever as Michael Keaton discusses his imminent return to the role in The Flash
It’s hardly surprising that two men who have played Batman on the big screen, Val Kilmer and Michael Keaton, should have such wildly different memories of pulling on the character’s cape and cowl. Kilmer, who starred in Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever in 1995, is widely seen as one of the worst dark knights of all time, saved only from the ignominy of rock bottom by George Clooney’s rock-faced performance in its 1997 sequel Batman & Robin.
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