#Batman actor serial

There's a reason it ranks dead last on this list. Is it the most groundbreaking performance? Not even a little. Okay, you might be thinking, when on earth did Keanu Reeves play Batman? Well, lest we forget, there is the new animated film DC League of Super Pets, which can be explained in just four words: Keanu Reeves. And so, with such a number of actors taking on the role of Batman, it's high time to count down our favorite versions and see who wore the cowl the best.

presidential term without some version of the Dark Knight on screens large or small.

These darker and more psychologically-driven stories created a renewed interest in the caped crusader and gave way for his theatrical rebirth in 1989. While the ubiquitous origin story of his parents' alleyway murder has never changed, Batman spent forty years as a campy & colorful superhero before being reinvented in the late 1980s by comic book legends such as Alan Moore ( The Killing Joke), Frank Miller ( The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One), and Grant Morrison ( Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth). In the nearly eighty years since, he's become as much of an American pastime as baseball and isn't even that much younger than the league itself.

#Batman actor serial

He was given his own standalone comic less than one year later and three years after that, Columbia Pictures produced the very first Batman 15-part serial in July 1943. Batman first debuted in the pages of Detective Comics #27 in May 1939 and has been part of the American zeitgeist ever since.