Actors Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts will join Zach Galifianakis in Birdman, a new dark comedy from director Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu.
Before you get too excited, it’s not exactly what it sounds like. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Keaton will play an aging actor who once portrayed an iconic superhero — sound familiar? — as he gears up for a Broadway play based on a Raymond Carver short story in an attempt to reclaim his former glory. However, the show’s conceited leading man threatens to throw everything down the tubes. (Keaton, of course, portrayed Batman in the 1989 and 1992 feature films directed by Tim Burton, which should lend itself to this.)
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