The Batman Reboot Casting Thread - Part 2

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1) After hearing what you guys have to say, I'm officially on Team Wes!

2) Because somebody needs to cast the Rogues Gallery.....

Joker - Tom Hiddleston

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Harley Quinn - Amanda Seyfried

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Riddler - Matthew Gray Gubler

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Penguin - Timothy Spall

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Scarecrow - David Tennant

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Poison Ivy - Rachel Nichols

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Perfection
 
McKellen is too old to be a part of another franchise.
 
Maybe you're looking at older pictures. I know Wes has a young look (great for sequels), but he could definitely pass for 30s.

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His age lines up well with Cavill's Superman.

Even though Bruce Wayne is a fairly dark character, Bentley is a little too dark for me. He'd be more appropriate for a villain.
 
What is up with the Lee Pace love?

The dude from Pushing Daisies?

He's Ray Palmer/Atom material to me.
 
Maybe you're looking at older pictures. I know Wes has a young look (great for sequels), but he could definitely pass for 30s.

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His age lines up well with Cavill's Superman.

Hmm Okay you may have won me over with that photo. He does look A LOT better in that picture than others I have seen, so I can cut him some slack. I still can't think of anything that suggests his acting is up to snuff, but I am a fan of giving people a chance to prove themselves
 
What is up with the Lee Pace love?

The dude from Pushing Daisies?

He's Ray Palmer/Atom material to me.
That makes the casting more interesting. i never watch pushing daisies that's why i could see him at least as Bruce, if not Batman.
 
McKellen is too old to be a part of another franchise.

While I don't know if he'd do it, if he doesn't get cast, it wouldn't be cause of his age.

Michael Caine was 72 when Batman Begins came out in 2005. McKellen is only 73 right now, which is a year only a year older than Caine was when he took up Alfred. If they do a reboot in the next 2 years (sounds like sooner since they want JLA off the ground) there's no reason McKellan at 75 couldn't take up the role.
 
Joel Kinnaman - Batman / Bruce Wayne

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Josh Brolin - Commissioner Gordon

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Liam Cunningham - Alfred Pennyworth

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Walton Goggins - The Joker

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Michael Stuhlbarg - The Riddler

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Christoph Waltz - Dr. Hugo Strange

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Eddie- I think all of your choices except for Batman are great, but I've only seen him in Safe House. And I'm not sure about your Alfred. I've never seen him act but going from Michael Caine to a far more unknown actor is...well a different approach, I can't really say anything on the subject because I haven't seen him act. I think a reboot definitely needs star power or to at least convince people of the films credibility. Begins had Oldman, Freeman, Neeson, & Caine I think the next film needs some big names in the supporting cast again. I'm nitpicking, your cast is great
 
I just don't see Brolin as commissioner gordon. I think Waltz would be a cool Strange. Cunningham seems to be the new cat's meow as alfred, and I wouldn't complain, I think a lot of good people (mckellan included) could pull off a great new take on alfred. I've seen griggons before, though I can't place him, and thus I don't know about joker, and I don't really know struhlberg..So I have no opinon on them. maybe they'd be great, maybe they wouldn't be. lol. Anyone who can enlighten me on those 2 it would be appreciated.
 
I love the Waltz as Hugo Strange suggestion. Truly inspired.
 
Waltz would be great, but I still like Charles Dance for Hugo Strange.

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I think Dance would be better for Mr. Freeze.
 
That could work too, but I personally would rather never see Mr. Freeze onscreen again. I've always found him to be one of Batman's more ridiculous villains. Strange is much better, IMO.
 
That could work too, but I personally would rather never see Mr. Freeze onscreen again. I've always found him to be one of Batman's more ridiculous villains. Strange is much better, IMO.

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How dare you :o
 
Freeze is another reason I want a TV show, because they may never build a whole movie around him, but they could turn "Heart of Ice" into an awesome 2-parter (basically make that the Mr. Freeze movie). :word:
 
Wes has a dark look indeed, but there's no such thing as 'too dark for Batman.'

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Bale could easily slip into the role of a villain as well, and has.

He has looked quite psychotic in many of his personal pictures and his roles.

Batman has to be intimidating and threatening. He isn't the approachable Man of Steel. He's the antithesis of that. He needs that edge. Keaton perfected it.
 
OK. Time to distract all of you guys again.

I found this on deviantArt, courtesy of Ciro1984.

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Jon Hamm as Bruce Wayne/Batman
Ian Somerhalder as Dick Grayson Wayne/Nightwing
Jensen Ackles as Jason Todd Wayne/Red Hood
Logan Lerman as Tim Drake Wayne/Red Robin
Kitty Zhang as Cassandra Cain Wayne/Black Bat
Arsalan Ghasemi as Damian Wayne/Robin

If they were to make a few TV miniseries while Batman was away from the silver screen I would wholeheartedly support this cast.
 
John Hamm looks the part but I'm not sure he could do the whole violence thing very well. How about Mark Strong for batman? Same problem?
 
Another thing I like about Pace is his voice has strong impact. Heroic impact.
Which IMO, a (esp. dark) hero like Batman must have. The voice of a hero.
Just saying.
 
pace would of been better suited for supes due to how nice and humble he come across lol
 
Well Strong has a very deep voice!
P.S. Did you ever see that colledgehumour sketch about batman trying to find his voice?
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