Watch: Michael Keaton Plays A Superhero In ’90s-Style ‘Birdman Returns’ Trailer
By Angie Han/Nov. 6, 2014 3:00 pm EST
The latest Birdman promo isn’t really a Birdman promo per se, but a (fake) trailer for Birdman Returns, the 1992 superhero sequel starring Michael Keaton’s Riggan Thomson. Watch the Birdman Returns trailer after the jump.
#TBT: in 1992, Riggan Thomson makes box office history in BIRDMAN RETURNS. It will be another 4 years before Riggan famously pulls out of BIRDMAN 4 and disappears off the face of the planet until reviving his career on Broadway!
It’s impossible to see this and not think about what Keaton really doing in 1992.
The layers of meta, they are thick. Keaton isn’t really Riggan Thomson — a point that becomes abundantly clear when you watch the movie — but both González Iñárritu’s Birdman and its marketing campaign work better if audiences go in with their superficial similarities in mind. The Birdman Returns trailer seems like the perfect way to do just that.
Birdman is in theaters now.
