Birdman (Birdman)

Birdman is a fictional character in the universe of the director Alejandro González Iñárritu's homonymous film. Though he's an imaginary character, is the main antagonist of the film.

Birdman is a fictional character in a filmic saga who was played by the actor Riggan Thomson in 1992, but after that Thomson refused to shoot a fourth film his career was declining to be forgotten. Years later, in 2014, an aged Thompson undertook the project to relaunch his career with a theatrical adaptation in Boradway of the book "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love", but during the production process of the play the memory of his past together their family problems were harassing him to the point of seeing and hearing his winged alterego haunt him, saying that instead of doing serious acting he should return to make commercial films, persecution that led Thompson to almost thrown off a ledge, for later, during the debut of the work, shooting himself in the face as part of the final scene