The Batman Reboot Casting Thread - Part 7

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Batista would probably be the best pick for Bane. I think he's a great actor.

But I'm down to just get a massive buff dude, throw a mask on him and get someone else to do the voice
 
Batista would probably be the best pick for Bane. I think he's a great actor.

But I'm down to just get a massive buff dude, throw a mask on him and get someone else to do the voice

Going to have to disagree that he's a great actor. He worked for GOTG 1 & 2 because of the lines he was given, mostly comic relief.

I think they're more than capable of finding someone with some size and better acting talent. Nothing against the guy, I just don't think he's Bane material unless it's just for his physical presence.
 
Bane's not going to be in a Batman movie for a long time.
 
Ah, the old 'wrestlers cant act' stigma rears its head again - it's surely a sweeping generalization, no? Are you saying that there has is not, has never been and never will be someone who has worked as a professional wrestler who has shown some kind of acting ability worth a damn? Because I could name a few undertakers, waiters/waitresses, sales assistants, cooks, milkmen, hell, guys dressed as chickens who were probably told the same only for them to become some of the most highly regarded and successful actors ever.

Yes, there have been some awful wrestlers turned actors in the past but equally, there are terrible actors out there who never set foot in the 'squared circle' - being a bad actor is not mutually exclusive to wrestlers and the likes of Johnson, Cena and Batista are showing that. But yeah, lets just say that they are all terrible and if it shows on their CV that they were a wrestler at any point in their life reject them for an audition. :whatever:

Whatever you say bro, might as well cast Kane as Bane, Triple H as Thor, Ric Flair as Alfred, CM Punk as Dick Grayson, Johs Cena can double duty as Superman and Captain America etc.

All of Cena's films have been terrible, Batista was a silent thug in one film and a goof in 2 others. Johnson is just one guy out of thousands. So yes I can safely generalize.
There is more to comicbook characters than just muscles and fighting, its the same garbage mentality Zack Snyder displays.
 
Bane's not going to be in a Batman movie for a long time.

I dunno, he's been very pushed in the last few years across multiple media. He was even on DCEU intro that they showed at SDCC. I can see him in Suicide Squad though hopefully as the villain instead of a member.
 
Hardy's performance is too iconic and "memeable", I think. He's not like The Joker where the general public is familiar with me outside of the context of the movies. When people think of Bane now, they think of Hardy's performance.
 
I dunno, he's been very pushed in the last few years across multiple media. He was even on DCEU intro that they showed at SDCC. I can see him in Suicide Squad though hopefully as the villain instead of a member.
That's the best place to introduce Bane. In the Squad sequel. You can set up a Secret Six film too.
 
That's the best place to introduce Bane. In the Squad sequel. You can set up a Secret Six film too.

Bane in the Suicide Squad sequel would be pretty awesome. Idk any actor who would be able to pull him off.
 
So many villains and ya’ll want Bane? Heck, even Affleck substituted him for Deathstroke in his quasi-Knightfall script.
 
So many villains and ya’ll want Bane? Heck, even Affleck substituted him for Deathstroke in his quasi-Knightfall script.

That script was based on Fincher's The Game which is nothing like Knightfall not that I want a Knightfall adaptation.
The closest story where Bane played such a role was Europa but I doubt Affleck was looking at that.
 
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I like Bane more than Deathstroke tbh.

I would rather see freaks though. They are much more interesting villains.
 
I like Bane more than Deathstroke tbh.

I would rather see freaks though. They are much more interesting villains.

Neither are particularly interesting characters. I don't really like Deathstroke as a main villain. I prefer him as an assassin for hire type like in Under the Hood and Identity Crisis.

Bane has had his moments like Knightfall, Legacy and Secret Six, but he's not the most interesting guy either.
 
Anyone watching Netflix's Mindhunter?

I can't watch that without thinking Holt Mccallany would be a great Harvey Bullock. Harvey is one of my favourite Batman mythos characacters and I'd love to see him done justice on the silver screen after being left out of Burton and Nolan's films.

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I could definitely see that.

It still kinda annoys me that Keith Szarabajka wasn't Bullock in TDK.
 
I mean, just pretend he was. It wouldn’t be hard at all.
 
Neither are particularly interesting characters. I don't really like Deathstroke as a main villain. I prefer him as an assassin for hire type like in Under the Hood and Identity Crisis.

Bane has had his moments like Knightfall, Legacy and Secret Six, but he's not the most interesting guy either.

Neither of those stories you mentioned is a Deathstoke story, Slade isn't a gun for hire. DC has tons of other characters like that.

Deathstroke has worked as a main villain in plenty of comic stories, from Marv Wolfman's work to Geoff Johns. He was main villain of the first two seasons of Teen Titans, the main villain of Arrow season 2, the main villain of Beware the Batman and remains hands down the best villain of all those shows.
His current ongoing is one of the best books DC is publishing right now, he's far more complex than you're giving him credit for.

As for Bane there are stories like Vengeance of Bane 1 and 2, I am Bane, 2 arcs in Gotham Knights and his his arc in Azrael that I personally prefer to Knightfall, Secret Six and Legacy.

Both are interesting characters and both are far more main villain material than a lot of Batman rogues. Infact I'd even argue that 90% of Batman are more freak of the week villains as opposed to main villain material. Its why Joker and the al Ghuls have been overused for a long time and why writers come up with guys like Hush, Jason Todd, Dr Hurt, Court of Owls, Mr Bloom etc. Heck even Bane and Deathstroke are being overused imo but that's because they're more main villain material. It takes far more effort to make Penguin and Riddler main villain types and usually comes at the expense of the basic core of the character.
 
Thank god we’ve got the real Grayson on the way in the DCEU and on Titans
 
What's in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.
 
Can't be the only one who saw Adrien Brody at the JL premiere and thought of Scarecrow.
 
Can't be the only one who saw Adrien Brody at the JL premiere and thought of Scarecrow.
Nah, I'm pretty sure many have wanted him to be Scarecrow for years. Infact, I think he was one of the main fanpicks for Joker before Heath was cast for TDK. That one I don't really see as much as Scarecrow, though.
 
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