Batman/Bruce Wayne Casting Thread - Part 3

[C Prometheus]

Word on the street is that The Batman will be set roughly 15 years before Man of Steel (aka roughly 3 years into Bruce's career as Batman). Take it with a grain of salt if you want, but don't be surprised if Reeves goes for an actor in their late 20's or early 30's.

 

[Boom]

Source?

 

[Spider-Fan83]

He somehow reminds me of a young nathan fillion

I was going to say a young, David Boreanaz... but can kinda see that too


he's like if Nathan and David had a kid lol

 

[C Prometheus]

Source?

ManaByte's been mentioning it in a thread or two over at ResetEra. He's typically in the know on these sorts of things and was the guy who originally broke the story on Marvel Studios adapting The Eternals to film earlier this year.

 

[Astro13Zombie]

Word on the street is that The Batman will be set roughly 15 years before Man of Steel (aka roughly 3 years into Bruce's career as Batman). Take it with a grain of salt if you want, but don't be surprised if Reeves goes for an actor in their late 20's or early 30's.

Yes PLEASE

 

[fan4stic]

If that's true, for me Alexander Koch it is then!

 

[Deck Rickard]

LOL is that the guy from Under the Dome?

 

[Sawyer]

You know, there are aspects of the DCEU that I've liked, but I have to be perfectly honest here: I feel absolutely no desire to see these movies bend over backwards to fit themselves into a continuity of films that, with few exceptions, haven't been working.

Let Reeves' Batman be Batman. Not Affleck's Batman 15 years ago. Batman.

 

[Astro13Zombie]

You know, there are aspects of the DCEU that I've liked, but I have to be perfectly honest here: I feel absolutely no desire to see these movies bend over backwards to fit themselves into a continuity of films that, with few exceptions, haven't been working.

Let Reeves' Batman be Batman. Not Affleck's Batman 15 years ago. Batman.

I don’t disagree.

BUT

I do think it would be kinda nice to see what kind of person and hero he was before the things that turned him paranoid and cruel later in life.
It would make his cruelty in BvS mean more.

If done well, it could be viewd as it’s own thing entirely or as part of a bigger story for anyone that cares to connect it to BvS

 

[2kt09]

I don’t disagree.

BUT

I do think it would be kinda nice to see what kind of person and hero he was before the things that turned him paranoid and cruel later in life.
It would make his cruelty in BvS mean more.

It's Batman. That iconic rich secretly emo kid who grew up to be "the dark knight". That's why most of his sidekicks are polar opposites.

 

[C Prometheus]

You know, there are aspects of the DCEU that I've liked, but I have to be perfectly honest here: I feel absolutely no desire to see these movies bend over backwards to fit themselves into a continuity of films that, with few exceptions, haven't been working.

Let Reeves' Batman be Batman. Not Affleck's Batman 15 years ago. Batman.

To be fair, the DCEU has repeatedly retconned stuff out from the Snyder films that didn't work. Just look at Wonder Woman and how Jenkins tossed out the idea that Diana walked away from mankind for a century.

My guess is Reeves will introduce a bit of a different take on Batman than Affleck's, even if it's supposed to be a younger Pre-BvS Batfleck, and then new DCEU films set in the present will follow the mold Reeves sets up rather than Batfleck.

 

[Rorschach2012]

I don’t disagree.

BUT

I do think it would be kinda nice to see what kind of person and hero he was before the things that turned him paranoid and cruel later in life.
It would make his cruelty in BvS mean more.

If done well, it could be viewd as it’s own thing entirely or as part of a bigger story for anyone that cares to connect it to BvS

Not down with that. I want to forget BVS ever happened. I wouldn't care at all if BVS and JL were completely ignored and were essentially not canon.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Not down with that. I want to forget BVS ever happened. I wouldn't care at all if BVS and JL were completely ignored and were essentially not canon.

This.

Let Reeves do his own thing and not be beholden to Snyder's and Affleck's BS.

 

[thebatfan5194]

Agreed. I really don't care about maintaining continuity if Affleck is truly gone. Just have Matt Reeves make his movie with a younger Batman. Bending over backwards will just bog down the movie.

If they decide to do a JL 2 at some point (maybe 4 or 5 years down the line), we may already have had two Batman movies with this hypothetical new/younger actor.

If those movies are smash hits, do we really think anyone will give a **** that it's not Affleck anymore or that continuity doesn't line up properly? I sure as hell won't.

 

[Travesty]

Agreed. I really don't care about maintaining continuity if Affleck is truly gone. Just have Matt Reeves make his movie with a younger Batman. Bending over backwards will just bog down the movie.

If they decide to do a JL 2 at some point (maybe 4 or 5 years down the line), we may already have had two Batman movies with this hypothetical new/younger actor.

If those movies are smash hits, do we really think anyone will give a **** that it's not Affleck anymore or that continuity doesn't line up properly? I sure as hell won't.

No, the GA wont care, as we've already seen this with Batman. The Schumacher movies are supposed to be the same Batman that Burton made.

But right now, we don't know much about Reeves' Batman to really be too emotionally attached or angry about continuity within the DCEU. We'll just have to wait and see.

 

[thebatfan5194]

But right now, we don't know much about Reeves' Batman to really be too emotionally attached or angry about continuity within the DCEU. We'll just have to wait and see.

Exactly! Right now it's not tangible so the idea of recasting seems off-putting to some. But by the time these characters even cross over again it will be well into the 2020s with possibly multiple movies under the new guy's belt.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Word on the street is that The Batman will be set roughly 15 years before Man of Steel (aka roughly 3 years into Bruce's career as Batman). Take it with a grain of salt if you want, but don't be surprised if Reeves goes for an actor in their late 20's or early 30's.

Would be interesting for sure.....

 

[Vaibow]

Not down with that. I want to forget BVS ever happened. I wouldn't care at all if BVS and JL were completely ignored and were essentially not canon.

I'm with you on this one, i kinda want to forget BvS and JL (i've forgotten about that will smith movie too).

My idea, i have said before is to utilize the two years before BvS after MOS - there are easily 2 movie's worth of events to make a movie.

MOS2 could easily be set a month after MOS and we see Clark's next step, what he does to win the city over - we can have Lex Luthor Jnr's father be the real lex and it's the events of these movies that puts him away and brings out his son.

With an imagination and a clever script it could easily work and would act as a MOS trilogy before BvS.

WW is lucky to be able to do this, with ww1984 and i assume any other sequel has 2 more decades to play with.

Flash has time travel and can stand alone from events, same for AM.

Green lantern corps can have any time period it likes and be out in space.

So with this in mind, you can easily make a phase of good movies whilst not having to deal with trying tog et away from the snyder verse, if indeed that is a thing.

Same for Batman, have it 15 years earlier and you know what, if they want to move foreword with batman and the time lines meet up, just have the flash do something that alters reality and swipes BvS and JL from the time line (but that wouldn't be for another 10 years from now.

 

[Web-Head]

The whole prequel idea is a little silly to me. You do that but Affleck still wants out so if you want a current day Batman cameo then what?

They should've went with a 28-34 year old Bruce to begin with, especially for a cinematic universe.

I'm still on the Wes Bentley train but if Reeves wants a younger Batman, he might be too old. I don't expect this movie until 2021 to be honest.

 

[C Prometheus]

The whole prequel idea is a little silly to me. You do that but Affleck still wants out so if you want a current day Batman cameo then what?

They should've went with a 28-34 year old Bruce to begin with, especially for a cinematic universe.

I'm still on the Wes Bentley train but if Reeves wants a younger Batman, he might be too old. I don't expect this movie until 2021 to be honest.

You just get the new Batman actor to appear and ignore the fact that it's over a decade later in his life. Most audience members won't care as long as the film and the content of Bruce's appearance in it are great.

As for why Reeves might want to do a prequel, it's probably because Snyder skipped over the vast majority of classic Batman stories so he could loosely adapt The Dark Knight Returns for Batman v Superman.

Reeves wants to do a trilogy of Batman films and mentioned last year that he wants to do something similar with Bruce as to what he did with Caesar character-wise. As a result, it makes a lot of sense for Reeves to be drawn to the idea of showing how Bruce became more cynical leading up to BvS.

 

[Web-Head]

You just get the new Batman actor to appear and ignore the fact that it's over a decade later in his life. Most audience members won't care as long as the film and the content of Bruce's appearance in it are great.

As for why Reeves might want to do a prequel, it's probably because Snyder skipped over the vast majority of classic Batman stories so he could loosely adapt The Dark Knight Returns for Batman v Superman.

Reeves wants to do a trilogy of Batman films and mentioned last year that he wants to do something similar with Bruce as to what he did with Caesar character-wise. As a result, it makes a lot of sense for Reeves to be drawn to the idea of showing how Bruce became more cynical leading up to BvS.

I'd rather they just kinda forget about the Batfleck stuff and not really have to worry about connecting it to previous films.

 

[Greenlite]

You just get the new Batman actor to appear and ignore the fact that it's over a decade later in his life. Most audience members won't care as long as the film and the content of Bruce's appearance in it are great.

As for why Reeves might want to do a prequel, it's probably because Snyder skipped over the vast majority of classic Batman stories so he could loosely adapt The Dark Knight Returns for Batman v Superman.

Reeves wants to do a trilogy of Batman films and mentioned last year that he wants to do something similar with Bruce as to what he did with Caesar character-wise. As a result, it makes a lot of sense for Reeves to be drawn to the idea of showing how Bruce became more cynical leading up to BvS.

Yup, say the new actor plays Batman in the 90s, is a hit with the GA, then bloggers/media/GA would be like "we want to see this guy team up with Gal and Jason! F*** the Affleck"

Then you make the actor not shave and appear a little older, and put him in cameos or team ups, easy for everyone.

Btw they prob won't have many Bat cameos anyway, JL2 is a long way off, what else? Harley universe? That doesn't really need the Bat. But if they do, I bet my house that GA will crave for the new actor, if Reeves films are hits.

The fact Shazam has all these official easter eggs, and WW franchise is not hard rebooting itself, so I think chances are Reeves' Bat will be loosely set in the DCEU, he just won't scream about it.

 

[Astro13Zombie]

Then you make the actor not shave and appear a little older, and put him in cameos or team ups, easy for everyone.

That’s what I hope they do
Prequels with a new actor that can be aged up for future JL movies or cameos.

 

[KevTravels]

Let's clamor for a seemingly unknown 25-30 year old actor who has some range.

 

[Greenlite]

Kick ass? Lol