With all of this in mind, it’s easy to see why he feels “Batman died” with him.
But George Clooney has taken a lot of flack for his short run as Batman, and he’s taken even more flack for the rubber nipples on the costume he wore in Batman & Robin, to the point where he kind-of can’t help himself and has brought them up again and again.
As someone who goes to see nearly every single superhero movie while it is still in theaters, it’s hard to imagine someone playing a major superhero and not bothering to check out the competition at some point.
There’s nothing else really left to talk about in regards to that character, at least for him, but he does seem to be acknowledging to ComicBook.com that even if a Batman iteration doesn’t go well, the actor playing the character can and will survive what comes after.