Barbara Gordon Casting Thread

[Sawyer]

Can't believe this one hasn't occurred to me before:

Katie Stevens. She's got the look and, from what I've seen, the charisma. Not many film roles, but this is a younger person's role anyway. I think it could work.

 

[Silvermoth]

I love superherohype and I'm super grateful to the mods but it makes me sad they added a few new forums to the main board and still haven't added Batgirl

 

[Richard Grayson]

I'm still down with Jane Levy

 

[pixen]

Britt Robertson, Jane Levy, or someone a little different/unexpected.

 

[Tg11]

Danielle Panabaker

 

[Osiris-Rex]

I love superherohype and I'm super grateful to the mods but it makes me sad they added a few new forums to the main board and still haven't added Batgirl

They haven't added a Gotham City Sirens forum either and that one was announced months before Batgirl was.

Danielle Panabaker

Wouldn't they be better off casting someone who can act?

 

[Primal Slayer]

Marie Avgeropoulos

I love superherohype and I'm super grateful to the mods but it makes me sad they added a few new forums to the main board and still haven't added Batgirl

Personally I like them to add new forums once we get more concrete info on a film. At least a release date.

 

[Silvermoth]

I don't know, as soon as it's announced by the studio I think they should add it in because it's fun to get hyped and chat about everything

 

[Primal Slayer]

A lot of times it doesn't create that much conversation when it's created so early. Cyborg and Shazam barely have any posts and are still years away.

 

[Osiris-Rex]

A lot of times it doesn't create that much conversation when it's created so early. Cyborg and Shazam barely have any posts and are still years away.

And there are reports that Shazam has been cancelled.

 

[Tg11]

Alexandra Daddario

 

[atomicbattery]

Alexandra Daddario

I think Alexandra Daddario is a very appealing actress. She's 31. I've also noticed that most of the actresses mentioned in this thread are in their upper twenties or so.
I've only recently become aware that the word 'girl' has somehow acquired political baggage- as a pejorative- in these crazy, hypersensitive times.
Joss Whedon, at the moment, also has the unique distinction of being intensely disliked by passionate people on both ends of the political spectrum- the right for his disparaging tweets about the president, the left for being a man and wanting to make a Batgirl movie.

So, does Batgirl need to be under 21? If an older actress is cast, will Joss and the lead actress spend most of their interviews defending the label 'girl' being applied to a mature woman?

I'm watching 'Intersellar' right now. Very impressed with MacKenzie Foy, the kid playing Murph. A Wikipedia check reveals she's 16, and would probably be 18 by the time 'Batgirl' films. The irony, for myself, is that I proposed Kristen Stewart as Barbara some time back, and MacKenzie Foy actually played her daughter in the 'Twilight' films(!).

Anyway, have we been thinking five to fifteen years older in this thread than some will demand Batgirl- simply by the use of 'girl' in her title must be?
Just some food for thought

 

[Babillygunn]

Wouldn't they be better off casting someone who can act?

Funny, with all of the crap actresses bantered about, you would say this to Danielle Panabaker. She's a fine actress, but not my choice for Barbara. I'd still go with Kate Mara.

 

[pixen]

Wouldn't they be better off casting someone who can act?

It's a comic film forum, do you expect people to take acting into consideration when it comes to casting a female role? I've seen too many models suggested for roles (Catwoman, Elektra, etc) and most of them can't actually act. It's so silly. Just look at Enchantress in Suicide Squad.

 

[Osiris-Rex]

Funny, with all of the crap actresses bantered about, you would say this to Danielle Panabaker. She's a fine actress, but not my choice for Barbara. I'd still go with Kate Mara.

90% of the other ones I have never even heard of. I am familiar with her, having watched her for the past three years. I am sure she is a lovely young woman in real life. I just can't see her carrying the lead role in a major motion picture.
Her biggest role as a lead in a theatrical released movie so far was the 2012 movie Piranha 3DD which made a whopping $377 thousand dollars domestic at the box office.

 

[Babillygunn]

90% of the other ones I have never even heard of. I am familiar with her, having watched her for the past three years. I am sure she is a lovely young woman in real life. I just can't see her carrying the lead role in a major motion picture.
Her biggest role as a lead in a theatrical released movie so far was the 2012 movie Piranha 3DD which made a whopping $377 thousand dollars domestic at the box office.

You forget Sky High where she played a Poison Ivy ripoff. Lol. I agree I wouldn't go with her, but in the right role I could see her in a big budget movie. Just not this one. I just don't want Jane Levy and everyone else seems to be howling for her.

 

[Tg11]

Kristen Stewart I actually can see her as Barbara Gordon JK Simmons' Jim Gordon's daughter

 

[atomicbattery]

Kristen Stewart I actually can see her as Barbara Gordon JK Simmons' Jim Gordon's daughter

There have been so many great ideas in this thread, but, yeah, Kristen Stewart is still my favorite.

 

[TheFlamingCoco]

Molly Quinn. Young, cute, and likable.

 

[aNarcHy2day]

Molly Quinn. Young, cute, and likable.

Wayyy too young for Affleck Batman and JK Simmons Commissioner Gordon.

 

[Rorschach2012]

Wayyy too young for Affleck Batman and JK Simmons Commissioner Gordon.

23 isn't too young

 

[TheFlamingCoco]

If Bruce trained her at 18 (which is rather old, but old enough to avoid the whole "minor" aspect)
it would give her several years to be Batgirl. I think early twenties is fine.

 

[metaphysician]

It also turns her into a kid sidekick, effectively, but I've pretty much accepted that as inevitable. Sigh.

 

[Tg11]

Britt Robertson

 

[Thome216]

Molly Quinn. Young, cute, and likable.

Molly Quinn would be awesome. I loved her in 'Castle.' At the expense of sounding like a perv, who wouldn't want to see her in the Batgirl outfit..?