Michael Keaton’s Legacy

One of my favorite actors is Michael Keaton.

Mr. Keaton was my favorite Batman.

For those of you who don’t know, Michael Keaton directed a small budget independent film with the title: Sentimental Killer.

Side note: I had placed the Film Sentimental Killer link which was on YouTube. I’ve watched the film twice and my wife of 37+ years watched it as well. Guess what? It’s gone, you can’t watch it anymore and it was completely erased from the internet.

Sometimes we have to make a film that shows our “potential” to do something different like direct. Most actors have told me that they love a director who understand how an actor thinks.

To me Sentimental Killer was Keaton’s “demo project.”

Now that Michael Keaton has produced his “demo,” (Sentimental Killer) his “pilot show, he is now getting to make the picture he really wants to make.

Sentimental Killer is such a romantic film to me because it’s a story about two people who meet under very bizarre and strange circumstances who feel a deep connection with each other.

The reason I love and respect Michael Keaton as an Actor and as a Director is that he understands a basic concept of how to tell a great story.

What is it?

You have to keep the politics of getting your film made away from the content.

All you want to do is get your film made.

Knox Goes Away will be in theaters on March 15, 2024

Here is the premise: When a contract killer has a rapidly evolving form of dementia, he is offered an opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of the adult son with whom he had been estranged.

The Creative Filter

There is a reason that I think that Michael Keaton wanted to become a director. Do you know what it was? I think the answer comes from Sidney Pollack. Mr. Pollack once said and I am paraphrasing it here, “The reason I wanted to become an actor was, so I could watch how the other director’s work.”

The film won’t stream for awhile. Why? It’s currently in Theaters.