Batman/Bruce Wayne Casting Thread - Part 4

[Brother Jack]

Mel gibson for Deacon blackfire

That actually would work.

 

[StarLord]

Wahlberg for Poison Ivy.

Hawtz.

Those killer plants and trees from The Happening finally caught up with him.

 

[THE WOLF]

 

[Boom]

That's a no-burger.

 

[Rorschach2012]

Ryan Gosling is still my favorite option. Sounds like he’s not totally against it

 

[Boom]

I've thought long and hard about it and I think I'm settling in on Armie Hammer. Just checks all the right boxes.

 

[Jekecy]

The more I see of him, the more of an ideal (public) Bruce Wayne he seems to be. But on the same token, I see him less of a Batman with each appearance. But maybe that low expectation is a great setup for an explosive surprise if he did get the part.

 

[hellblazer103]

I've always loved the Gosling as Batman idea and will continue to love it. I would've even been on board with him as Joker in all honesty ( would've been better than Leto at least ) . Tbh, Gosling for everything, lol


And uuuum, **** Mark Wahlberg. That is all.

 

[Rorschach2012]

Armie easily stands out as the best and most obvious pick for an early 30s Batman.

My dream scenario would be for Ryan Gosling’s Batman to face off against Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, but Armie would be great too

 

[Aximili86]

I just don't get "crazy guy" vibes from either Gosling or Hammer alike. They could probably do it, but ehh.

 

[flickchick85]

I could go for Gosling. Hammer not so much.

 

[StarLord]

I just don't get "crazy guy" vibes from either Gosling or Hammer alike. They could probably do it, but ehh.

Did anyone really get that from Michael Keaton back in the 80s? I think they'd be lying if they said yes.

 

[Aximili86]

Uhh, yeah. "Something's a little off about that guy", to me, pretty much seems like Keaton's key attribute as an actor. If he didn't have that going for him, he'd be all kinds of wrong for Bats on-paper. It's the only way he's intimidating.

Someone like Armie's like the opposite of that. Big, physically imposing guy who pretty much comes off as a straight-laced buttoned-down leading man type. For Cap? Might have been an option. I don't know about Bats though. Affleck doesn't really have "crazy dude who could just snap at any second" about him either, but guess he's always had that quiet intensity about him in other stuff. Hammer just comes off way too "nice guy" somehow. Batman's obviously a good person, but there's something very amiss about the dude too.

 

[David H.]

I just don't get "crazy guy" vibes from either Gosling or Hammer alike. They could probably do it, but ehh.

Gosling’s a bit nutty.

 

[Gamma Goliath]

I never got the impression that batman was supposed to come off as a crazy guy. If anything it's his obsession with going out and fighting crime every night in a bat suit to no avail is what gives us the undertone that Bruce may not be sane. Obsessive (but not overly obsessive) and brooding is what they would need to pull off. On the surface as Bruce Wayne he should feel like a well adjusted man who you'd never guess was crime fighting vigilante.

 

[Aximili86]

Right, David. I don't love the idea of Gosling in the role, but he does have that pent-up intensity to him some of the time at least. He can do it, even though personally I don't find him all that threatening. Hammer's got the look down completely, he just strikes me as way too...I don't know, "normal".

Gamma, I don't mean full-on mentally-ill of course. But Bruce very much isn't a normal dude - might have turned out to be without the whole parental situation going as it did, but this is still a guy thinking a reasonable & rational approach to cleaning up the city is theatricality & spending all day sleeping so he can run around rooftops all night breaking wiseguy's teeth.

"Not overly obsessive"? Kind of trying to figure out how anyone could possibly be more obsessive than Bruce Wayne.

"Bruce" Bruce, the public persona, should come off as having all his **** together, absolutely. An entitled rich guy with the world at his fingertips, but basically an okay guy.

The real guy though, below that, should pretty much be like Keaton, a guy who when he's not out patrolling and beating streetpunks silly is basically sitting in his living room looking out the window hoping to see the Batsignal go off. Because this is his whole life, dressing up in a freakin' bat costume and cleaning up the city with two fists and 500 million bucks worth of prototype gadgets. And everything else he does with his life (the parties, the corporate stuff, the Hugh Hefner image) is just purely a way to keep the other side going on, to allay suspicion and keep the money coming in.

I dunno, personally I just like leaning a little more Keaton with the approach to that than Bale. Christian's guy always came off a little...steady to me, for lack of a better term. Obsessive, yeah, but still sort of "normal". Affleck's sort of somewhere between the two, but might be nice to get a little into "please light up, Batsignal, pleasepleaseplease", even if he'd never admit to himself that's just how much he needs the whole Batman thing.

There shouldn't be an end in sight for this guy, something's clicked in his head and he's all-in, the same way the Joker "had a bad day" and is just never coming back from that no matter what.

 

[thebatfan5194]

Armie Hammer is the obvious choice IMO. Could convincingly pull off a "young" Ben Affleck Batman, to satisfy those who want to maintain reasonable connections with the DCEU as it stands right now, young enough to be Batman for the next 10 years if need be, etc.

 

[David H.]

Christian's guy always came off a little...steady to me, for lack of a better term. Obsessive, yeah, but still sort of "normal".

Well, after a full night of venting out his fears and frustrations through growling and physical violence, you’d expect Bruce to be mellowed out.

 

[Rorschach2012]

Kit Harrington as Batman? Wtf

 

[Eddie Dean]

Kit?

 

[2kt09]

Right, David. I don't love the idea of Gosling in the role, but he does have that pent-up intensity to him some of the time at least. He can do it, even though personally I don't find him all that threatening. Hammer's got the look down completely, he just strikes me as way too...I don't know, "normal".

Gamma, I don't mean full-on mentally-ill of course. But Bruce very much isn't a normal dude - might have turned out to be without the whole parental situation going as it did, but this is still a guy thinking a reasonable & rational approach to cleaning up the city is theatricality & spending all day sleeping so he can run around rooftops all night breaking wiseguy's teeth.

"Not overly obsessive"? Kind of trying to figure out how anyone could possibly be more obsessive than Bruce Wayne.

"Bruce" Bruce, the public persona, should come off as having all his **** together, absolutely. An entitled rich guy with the world at his fingertips, but basically an okay guy.

The real guy though, below that, should pretty much be like Keaton, a guy who when he's not out patrolling and beating streetpunks silly is basically sitting in his living room looking out the window hoping to see the Batsignal go off. Because this is his whole life, dressing up in a freakin' bat costume and cleaning up the city with two fists and 500 million bucks worth of prototype gadgets. And everything else he does with his life (the parties, the corporate stuff, the Hugh Hefner image) is just purely a way to keep the other side going on, to allay suspicion and keep the money coming in.

I dunno, personally I just like leaning a little more Keaton with the approach to that than Bale. Christian's guy always came off a little...steady to me, for lack of a better term. Obsessive, yeah, but still sort of "normal". Affleck's sort of somewhere between the two, but might be nice to get a little into "please light up, Batsignal, pleasepleaseplease", even if he'd never admit to himself that's just how much he needs the whole Batman thing.

There shouldn't be an end in sight for this guy, something's clicked in his head and he's all-in, the same way the Joker "had a bad day" and is just never coming back from that no matter what.

That's exactly my reasoning for Benjamin Walker. You can find clips of Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne, outside of the infamous "You wanna get nuts!", and he's fairly reserved.

Armie Hammer gives off the vibe of a Robin Hood, Prince Charming...Hal Jordan.

 

[Aximili86]

Yeah, big "no thanks" to Harington. Has the basic look for it, but...

Ehh.

EDIT: Also, holy crap, according to the article he's shorter than Keaton? Knew he wasn't a big dude, but wow.

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

More from Robles on the rumored choice he's still keeping "close to the chest" for the time being.

Note: This isn't Harington; it's apparently a different guy altogether.

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

Taking into account what he already said about the "mysterious" actor in question (i.e., he's something of a surprising or left-field choice for Batman given his age and additional factors despite his also being a popular fancast for other DC roles), I've gotta once again echo Batfan5191's sentiments. This is Hamm.

 

[Boom]

Hamm is one of maybe three actors in their forties I'd still be all for taking on the part.