The Batman Reboot Casting Thread - Part 2

[Roose Bolton]

Where is the Wes Bentley love coming from?

The guy who played Blackheart

 

[Changeling]

Yeah..

 

[Brawl]

Maybe you're looking at older pictures. I know Wes has a young look (great for sequels), but he could definitely pass for 30s.

His age lines up well with Cavill's Superman.

Not Batman... maybe Tax-Man but still not feeling Bats.

 

[Brawl]

Bale can play a villain but he can also play the hero. Bentley's looks are so dark as to be sinister. That's not how I see Bruce Wayne.



Maybe a few years ago but Hamm looks way too old now to be a superhero. He's even said that superhero parts are for men younger than himself. I wish people would just move past him.

Check out the book that made Batman popular again called Frank Miller's Dark knight and then retract that statement. What makes a superhero interesting is their weaknesses not their stunning good looks when they were young.

Batman like Captain America stand out among most others because of their beliefs and mortalness. They fight among gods being only normal men. Another great superhero series that exemplified this was Marvel's Marvels series painted by Alex Ross.

RDJ plays IM so well because he is older and more mature. Watch a younger RDJ movie like US Marshall and see if that RDJ would be able to play IM as well as he does now.

 

[Brawl]

Robin/Dick Grayson - Josh Hutcherson

Batgirl/Barbara Gordon - Jane Levy

I really don't even want to see the characters in the movie. I always thought the Batgirl/Boy Wonder thing was a bit campy.

 

[Rockstar]

Dark Knight Returns? ....W T F?


It would be incredibly stupid to go with a much older Batman when we have a young Superman (Cavill).

 

[Brawl]

Dark Knight Returns? ....W T F?


It would be incredibly stupid to go with a much older Batman when we have a young Superman (Cavill).

I don't understand the need for them to be the same age unless this will turn into some DC Glee event where all superheroes end up in the same school together and pull super pranks on each other. Actually if if anything it would be more interesting story-wise if the 2 do enter each others universe to have Bat's be a bit older to mentor a bit to Superman. Superman is an incredibly unstable person naturally. I mean to have god like powers would jack anyone up mind wise. I mean you can go the vanilla "Truth, Freedom and the American Way" is he all needs as a moral posting but today's audience won't buy it that well.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

The only reason to have a Batman around 10 years older than Superman would be if Christian Bale reprises the role.

 

[Boy Scout]

Given the right hair color, he'd look more like the character than JGL, imo.

I just don't see it.

 

[BestGirl]

Check out the book that made Batman popular again called Frank Miller's Dark knight and then retract that statement. What makes a superhero interesting is their weaknesses not their stunning good looks when they were young.

I didn't say Bentley wasn't good looking. He just comes off more as villain than hero to me.

Batman like Captain America stand out among most others because of their beliefs and mortalness. They fight among gods being only normal men. Another great superhero series that exemplified this was Marvel's Marvels series painted by Alex Ross.

RDJ plays IM so well because he is older and more mature. Watch a younger RDJ movie like US Marshall and see if that RDJ would be able to play IM as well as he does now.

Iron Man can be older because his suit does his fighting for him. Batman can be played by a middle-aged actor but he's got to seem a little younger than what he is. Hamm looks much older than his actual age.

I don't understand the need for them to be the same age unless this will turn into some DC Glee event where all superheroes end up in the same school together and pull super pranks on each other. Actually if if anything it would be more interesting story-wise if the 2 do enter each others universe to have Bat's be a bit older to mentor a bit to Superman. Superman is an incredibly unstable person naturally. I mean to have god like powers would jack anyone up mind wise. I mean you can go the vanilla "Truth, Freedom and the American Way" is he all needs as a moral posting but today's audience won't buy it that well.

People want them to be the same age because WB is looking into making a JL movie. The Batman actor should match up visually with Henry Cavill.

 

[BestGirl]

Re the Tom Hardy discussion on the previous page, what about his lookalike Logan Marshall-Green? How's his acting?

 

[Majik1387]

First, Captain America is not a normal man, the Super Soldier Serum makes him close to a super man; So his comparison to Batman is not good in that respect.

Batgirl and Robin are not campy unless they are written/performed as such, anyone thinking otherwise lacks imagination and are just reminiscent of the detractors saying that Joker and Two Face's comic look is too campy for live action.

 

[flickchick85]

Re the Tom Hardy discussion on the previous page, what about his lookalike Logan Marshall-Green? How's his acting?

He's been pretty good in the few things I've seen him in, and I've mentioned him in this context before somewhere back in this thread. I think he's a decent candidate. Not my favorite for the role or anything, but not a bad option.

 

[Rockstar]

Green didn't really stand out in Prometheus. I was hoping his acting improved since the OC.

He always sounds really thuggish and street, like Marky Mark, in the roles I've seen him in.

 

[Majik1387]

Green was pretty good in Devil, but nothing spectacular. But yeah I agree, his performance in Prometheus was also nothing spectacular, but he did what he could with such a boring role.

I'd give him a shot as Bruce/Batman though, I feel like there's more to him than what he's shown so far.

 

[poumap]

We all have our own preferences but personally I think that no one will ever agree with anyone on the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman because actually there is no actor who can play this legend yet.

 

[Rockstar]

Nolan and Bale really set the bar high.

It's almost like recasting Superman right after Reeve.

 

[Majik1387]

Nolan and Bale really set the bar high.

Nolan, maybe. Bale, no.

 

[Rockstar]

Bale was perfectly cast though, just like Reeve.

There were some aspects in both of their performances that don't win fans over (Reeve's slapstick Kent) mainly due to the director, but they were perfect fits for their respective roles.

That's why they are tough shoes to fill.

 

[combocaz]

Bale isnt the best batman imo. Clooney imo would have been the best batman if he was in nolans version of bats.

 

[The Strategos]

Clooney was terrible, he is too old, too soft-looking and too smooth, IMHO!

 

[TheWatcher]

Michael Keaton is still the best Batman of all time.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Except for the fact that he couldn't fight worth a damn. And that's kind of important when it comes to Batman.

I don't blame that on Keaton though. You could have just as easily used a stuntman who was an expert martial artist in a less constrictive costume and no one would have been able to tell the difference because of the mask. Burton was just lazy when it came to that aspect of the movie because he was so in love with telling stories where the villains were the true main characters.

 

[The Guard]

Fighting in action movies was a tad different back then. That's about the long and the short of it. There was more punching and kicking in general and less "crazy martial arts expertise".

It's got little to nothing to do with the costume, which still performed some pretty rangy and rapid maneuvers.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Yeah, but he hardly even did any of that. It was like, he punched a guy once, and that was it. The biggest fight he had in the movie was against that one henchman in the belltower... and the whole time he was getting his ass kicked.

Burton did a better job with Catwoman's fighting prowess in BR... because like I said before, he was more interested in making movies about Batman's supporting cast.