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FINALLY...<br />
above<br />
it all<br />
That’s Michael Keaton<br />
dangling precariously from a<br />
crane above New York City’s<br />
Times Square. He’s shooting<br />
a scene for Birdman, a<br />
black comedy in which he<br />
plays Riggan Thomson, an<br />
aging actor who used to be<br />
famous for playing an “iconic<br />
superhero” but who’s now<br />
preparing for the opening<br />
night of his Broadway play<br />
What We Talk About When<br />
We Talk About Love.<br />
The irony of casting Keaton<br />
— the comic actor who<br />
surprised fans and critics with<br />
a successful stab at playing<br />
Batman in two Tim Burton<br />
movies, Batman (1989) and<br />
Batman Returns (1992) — is<br />
lost on no one. Birdman is<br />
expected to hit theatres in<br />
2014. —MW<br />
50 | <strong>Cineplex</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | july <strong>2013</strong><br />
Photo by christoPher Peterson/sPlash news