The All New and Improved Batman Reboot Casting Thread

[Sawyer]

Hugo Strange - Rhys Ifans

I’m quoting myself on this one, it was just too damn good.

 

[BobJM]

What about Benny Safdie as Professor Pyg in a film directed by the Safdie Bros.?

With Monica Barbaro and Bobby Cannavale as Detectives Montoya and Bullock.

 

[Tg11]

Now if you were to cast a movie in the Batfleck DCEU universe, then my fan cast would actually look like this:

Bruce Wayne/Batman- Ben Affleck
Commissioner Jim Gordon- JK Simmons
Alfred Pennyworth- Jeremy Irons
Dick Grayson/Nightwing- Dacre Montgomery
Lucius Fox- Denzel Washington
Jason Todd/Red Hood- Taron Egerton
Selina Kyle/Catwoman- Kate Beckinsale
Tim Drake (Robin flashbacks)- Noah Schnapp
Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin- Paul Giamatti
The Joker- Jared Leto
Harley Quinn- Margot Robbie
Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow- Adam Driver
Renee Montoya- Rosie Perez
Harvey Dent/Two-Face- Jon Hamm
The Riddler- Edward Norton
Harvey Bullock- Nick Offerman
Roman Sionis/Black Mask- Ewan McGregor
Deathstroke- Joe Manganiello
Deadshot- Will Smith
Ra's Al Ghul- Mads Mikkelsen
Talia Al Ghul- Teresa Palmer

 

[Eddie Dean]

That's nice.

 

[Lautox]

Now if you were to cast a movie in the Batfleck DCEU universe, then my fan cast would actually look like this:

Bruce Wayne/Batman- Ben Affleck
Commissioner Jim Gordon- JK Simmons
Alfred Pennyworth- Jeremy Irons
Dick Grayson/Nightwing- Dacre Montgomery
Lucius Fox- Denzel Washington
Jason Todd/Red Hood- Taron Egerton
Selina Kyle/Catwoman- Kate Beckinsale
Tim Drake (Robin flashbacks)- Noah Schnapp
Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin- Paul Giamatti
The Joker- Jared Leto
Harley Quinn- Margot Robbie
Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow- Adam Driver
Renee Montoya- Rosie Perez
Harvey Dent/Two-Face- Jon Hamm
The Riddler- Edward Norton
Harvey Bullock- Nick Offerman
Roman Sionis/Black Mask- Ewan McGregor
Deathstroke- Joe Manganiello
Deadshot- Will Smith
Ra's Al Ghul- Mads Mikkelsen
Talia Al Ghul- Teresa Palmer

i would go back to 2013 and recast the whole thing

 

[Lautox]

Josh Brolin/Jon Hamm - Batman
A guy who could actually act - Superman
Bryan Cranston/Sam Elliot - Gordon
Bradley Cooper/Denzel Washington - Lex Luthor
Lizzy Caplan - Lois Lane

This should've been the lineup

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Lautox]

Olivia Cooke

 

[AndyTrevino]

Too obvious.

 

[Lautox]

Too obvious.

for the 100th time man

 

[Airwings]

We shouldn't deny somebody to play a character he/she is too obvious choice for

 

[AndyTrevino]

We shouldn't deny somebody to play a character he/she is too obvious choice for

It's just boring. We need to look beyond the physical stuff. Just because a favorite choice for Ivy has red hair doesn't make it a good suggestion.

 

[Airwings]

It's just boring. We need to look beyond the physical stuff. Just because a favorite choice for Ivy has red hair doesn't make it a good suggestion.

Well, Jessica Chastain isn't exactly a bad actress. Why do you think she won't be able to play Poison Ivy?

 

[AndyTrevino]

Well, Jessica Chastain isn't exactly a bad actress. Why do you think she won't be able to play Poison Ivy?

I just don't think she's someone you'd get for a movie like this. I'd rather have Riley Keough, Olivia Cooke, or Rebecca Ferguson.

 

[Frodo]

I don't think an obvious choice necessarily means its the wrong choice.

Jack Nicholson, Danny Devito, Patrick Stewart, and it could even be argued Christian Bale, were all the most obvious choices when they were cast .

I include Bale in there because he was a fan cast before he was got the part , and it was between Bale and Hugh Dancy.
Dancy would have seemed more of an outside the box choice as opposed to Bale if Nolan wanted to go with a less odvious choice.

At the same time, not every outside the box choice works , such as Jessie Eisenberg as Lex, Topher Grace as Eddie Brock, etc.

Sometimes the obvious choice is the best choice if the actor or actress is good.
Sometimes the outside the box choice like Ledger is the best choice.
It can go either way.

The commonality between the outside the box choices, and the obvious choices is that , alot of times, as with Nicholson and Stewart, and Ledger and Pattinson, they're good actors regardless of whether they're the obvious choice or not.

Now if we're trying to predict the type of actress Reeve may want , then perhaps, an argument could be made that he won't go for someone who would be the obvious choice.

But a good to great actor or actress being an obvious choice , to me , doesn't mean they'd be wrong for the role.

At the same time, whoever the actor is , they're going to be acting to the role as written anyway, so even our assumptions about how an actor or actress would play a role, might not resemble their actual performance.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

On what planet would Riley Keough or Olivia Cooke be a better fit for Poison Ivy than Jessica Chastain?

 

[Sawyer]

On what planet would Riley Keough or Olivia Cooke be a better fit for Poison Ivy than Jessica Chastain?

Well, see, you’re really asking two different questions here. To answer your first: There is no planet where Riley Keough is a better choice for Ivy than Chastain.

To answer your second: The planet where Olivia Cooke is a better choice for Ivy than Jessica Chastain is the one we’re living on right now.

 

[Lautox]

On what planet would Riley Keough or Olivia Cooke be a better fit for Poison Ivy than Jessica Chastain?

Jessica Chastain doesn't fit the role plus she will almost be 50 by the time the trilogy ends and this Bruce is just entering his mid 30s so...

 

[emielaen]

Jessie Buckley for literally any character tho

 

[AndyTrevino]

On what planet would Riley Keough or Olivia Cooke be a better fit for Poison Ivy than Jessica Chastain?

Chastain would fit better in a Batfleck movie as a more classical CGI Ivy. I don't think she'd fit this world.

 

[AndyTrevino]

Jessie Buckley for literally any character tho

I don't know why on Earth I forgot about her. But yes please!!

 

[emielaen]

I don't know why on Earth I forgot about her. But yes please!!

She's incredible

 

[AndyTrevino]

Even putting aside my own opinions on Chastain's acting, in that I feel like she's just okay, let's be realistic for a second. Even putting aside the matter of filmography, look at the rest of the cast and how they've gone about adapting some of these characters.

I'm sure most of us didn't expect Reeves to jump outside the usual pool of white actors for Gordon. I'm sure a bunch of us expected them to cast an actual heavyset, overweight actor for Penguin instead of someone like Colin Farrell under a buttload of prosthetics. And I'm sure most fans thought they'd cast a woman who was naturally on the bulkier side for Sofia Falcone.

Be honest, aside from thinking she's a good actress, most people really only want Chastain for Ivy because she has red hair. I'm sure that if Ivy is in this, it's very possible they won't just cast a super duper famous white redhead and be done with it.

 

[Airwings]

Frodo is right.
He gives good examples. Sometimes it works to cast against character but not always. It's risky to do so because it can be a disaster.
But when has it been bad to cast an obvious actor for a role? I can't remember any such case. You need to enlighten me here.

 

[Luke995]

The whole point is: if Pamela Isley will be in this universe, she would be the femme fatale with a perfect beautiness like in the comics?
I wouldn't be so sure.

Someone in this forum theorized an eco-terrorist version of Pamela. Considering it will a sort-of-a-realistic point on the character, she won't be dressed with plant of course.

Plus, an obvious choice for the character could be wrong in the wrong hands.
Who knows how Nicholson could have been in the Schumacher universe?
Or think about Jim Carrey in the Burtonverse or Lee Jones in Nolan's. They could have been AMAZING in their roles.

Considering all of this, and looking at the age of Pattinson and the kind of casting choices until now, my top choice for Pamela is Anya Taylor Joy.

She's a terrific actress, beautiful but with something weird and horrorific in her charme.
Plus, she's doing a good career with directors, movies and roles noir/horror/thriller movies.