Brave and the Bold Casting Thread

I'm loving all the Lee Pace love around here. As someone who was disappointed with how Ronan was handled he'd be a great Batman. It all comes down to who writes and directs it. Have any behind the camera names been thrown around yet?
 
I think it would be better to streamline things. Maybe only Nightwing and Barbra Gordon already exist and Damian comes in as the second Robin.

If Damian is already your "bad boy with a complicated relationship with Batman and is divisive among fans" Robin, Jason Todd has nothing to do. If Damian is our Robin, what would Tim Drake be doing? Being another Robin who isn't our main Robin? And Dick can already do the "previous Robin who is annoyed with Bruce's biological son" role, so again... what would there be for Tim to do?
 
I'm loving all the Lee Pace love around here. As someone who was disappointed with how Ronan was handled he'd be a great Batman. It all comes down to who writes and directs it. Have any behind the camera names been thrown around yet?
Ben Affleck has been rumored and Andy Muschietti has been speculated.
 
I think it would be better to streamline things. Maybe only Nightwing and Barbra Gordon already exist and Damian comes in as the second Robin.

If Damian is already your "bad boy with a complicated relationship with Batman and is divisive among fans" Robin, Jason Todd has nothing to do. If Damian is our Robin, what would Tim Drake be doing? Being another Robin who isn't our main Robin? And Dick can already do the "previous Robin who is annoyed with Bruce's biological son" role, so again... what would there be for Tim to do?
I don't think they'd let go of the sequel potential that Jason being dead in this film and coming back from it in the next film brings.
 
Personally, I'd go with just two additional Robins, namely Nightwing and Red Hood. Tim Drake and Stephanie Brown can be omitted.
 
I don't think they'd let go of the sequel potential that Jason being dead in this film and coming back from it in the next film brings.
They will absolutely do Under the Red Hood eventually. I hate that story bad but it is damn near inevitable it'll be adapted into live action someday, there are too many appealing hooks to resist.
 
I think Red Hood is a awfully boring creation so he can be skipped IMO.

Give us 37 year old Bruce, 20 year Old Nightwing, 15 year old Tim and 10 year old Damian.

Oracle can be around 19-20 and then Thats a good starting Bat-Family.
 
They will absolutely do Under the Red Hood eventually. I hate that story bad but it is damn near inevitable it'll be adapted into live action someday, there are too many appealing hooks to resist.

It'll be interesting to see how they get audiences emotionally invested in this character w/o introducing him prior to his infamous death and resurrection. Flashbacking is common, but with streamers being what they are today, I won't be surprised if we get another web series out of this.
 
Under The Red Hood animated movie is a legit great Batman movie, so any live action version would have a tough act to follow (and the Batman: Arkham Knight version of that story was less than great).
 
I'm all aboard the Lee Pace hype train
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and if they wanna go a bit younger... (my personal runner up to Pattinson)
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Both my picks for Bats for some time now, pre Affleck as far as Lee Pace goes. I think they both would be fantastic as Bruce/Batman
 
At the risk of pissing off Tim fans, I think a Bat Family of Batman/Nightwing/Batgirl/Robin (Damian) would be sufficient.

Loosely related, but DC needs to stop with the Robins already. Who's wearing the mantle nowadays? Spoiler? Duke Thomas? I can't keep up.
 
There hasn’t been another Robin since Damian came on the scene, so I really don’t think it’s that intense.
 
At the risk of pissing off Tim fans, I think a Bat Family of Batman/Nightwing/Batgirl/Robin (Damian) would be sufficient.

Tim's skippable with Damian around, but missing Jason... the Robin who was murdered and came back is so very juicy.
 
There hasn’t been another Robin since Damian came on the scene, so I really don’t think it’s that intense.

Duke Thomas is basically another Robin in everything but name. I was thinking Stephanie Brown as well, but yeah, she assumed the mantle before Damian did. Either way, three Robins is more than enough IMO. To each their own, though.
 
You can still have an early 30s Batman with a teen Damien. Bruce hooks up with Talia when they are teenagers. It happens all the time in the real world.
 
You can still have an early 30s Batman with a teen Damien. Bruce hooks up with Talia when they are teenagers. It happens all the time in the real world.
They could, doesn't mean they should.
Also Damian is one piece of the puzzle. This Batman also needs to sell the fact he's a father figure to Nightwing.
It'd also be easier if there were any actors in their early 30s right now that were remotely convicing for this type of Batman in his prime with a Bat Family.
 
"Batman and Talia conceived Damian when they were teens" just feels silly.

Just cast a late 30s/early 40s actor for Bruce. Old enough to be believable as a seasoned Batman, but young enough that he can still play the role for a decade.
 
They could, doesn't mean they should.
Also Damian is one piece of the puzzle. This Batman also needs to sell the fact he's a father figure to Nightwing.
It'd also be easier if there were any actors in their early 30s right now that were remotely convicing for this type of Batman in his prime with a Bat Family.
You taking the casting way to serious. A 32 year Batman could easily train Dick in his late 20s plus this is an adaptation not a comic book so I doubt he trained 3 Robins and Batgirl before this movie. We won’t know until they cast but I bet the only Bat family members we get for the movie are Dick and Barbara. I do think from what I have read about the Authority, Red Hood would fit right in.:D
 
You taking the casting way to serious. A 32 year Batman could easily train Dick in his late 20s plus this is an adaptation not a comic book so I doubt he trained 3 Robins and Batgirl before this movie. We won’t know until they cast but I bet the only Bat family members we get for the movie are Dick and Barbara. I do think from what I have read about the Authority, Red Hood would fit right in.:D
The problem isn't the math, the problem is whether or not you'd be able to sell visually the idea that Nightwing sees Bruce as a father, it restricts the casting for the Bat-Family members that surround him way too much for that very reason and it's also completely unnecessary.
If you have to go out of your way to do a bunch of math to explain how Batman could have a teenage son and a young adult son despite not looking like it, then you're already something wrong imo
 
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The problem isn't the math, the problem is whether or not you'd be able to sell visually the idea that Nightwing sees Bruce as a father, it restricts the casting for the Bat-Family members that surround him way too much for that very reason and it's also completely unnecessary.
If you have to go out of your way to do a bunch of math to explain how Batman could have a teenage son and a young adult son despite not looking like it, then you're already something wrong imo
I never saw Bruce as Dick’s father. I always thought of Bruce as a mentor (Big brother) figure and helped Dick to not go down the same road that he did. Bruce sees himself in Dick Grayson. You know Dick was always his ward and never was adopted. I have read adaptations were Bruce was 29 and Dick was 13 years of age when they meet. It will be interesting to see where Gunn goes with this. I don’t think Bruce thought of any of his Robins as sons. He treats Damien much different, like a son.
 
I never saw Bruce as Dick’s father. I always thought of Bruce as a mentor (Big brother) figure and helped Dick to not go down the same road that he did. Bruce sees himself in Dick Grayson. You know Dick was always his ward and never was adopted. I have read adaptations were Bruce was 29 and Dick was 13 years of age when they meet. It will be interesting to see where Gunn goes with this. I don’t think Bruce thought of any of his Robins as sons. He treats Damien much different, like a son.
I think you're quite wrong in that because over the last 30 years they've been pretty explicit about Dick and Jason being Bruce's sons. On a recent issue Dick even called him "dad"
 

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