The Brave and the Bold News and Discussion Thread

[GreenKToo]

Just cast a slim actor as the joker and dub in mark Hamills voice. Lol. I'm kidding. Or am I.

 

[The Lazarus Pit]

Alan Ritchson has limited range, but what he can do, he does REALLY well. I think Hawk as a character is ****ing lame but he was arguably the best actor in the entire Titans tv show, and he made me love his version of the character.

I thought he was a good Aquaman too.

I’d love him as Shazam. They should’ve cast him as Shazam to begin with, Zachary Levi was ****ing horrible lmao. Those two Shazam movies probably killed the character for a while. I’d be surprised if he popped up in Gunn’s DCU any time soon. But you never know.

Ritchson as Aquaman or Shazam would be fantastic!

 

[ENCK]

I still say Alan Ritchson, every time I turn on the internet there is news about fan-casting batman and his name pops up, and memes etc. He is basically Batman in Reacher. He is imposing, over 6 feet and looks like he can scare criminals. Picking another skinny whiny pattison type figure from europe who can barely act or prove believability has been done to death before. Let Damian move into that territory. Bats in the comics especially drawn by Smith was over 6 feet and super muscular. It doesn't make sense not to do this. Heck, even Affleck's Batman came at least close to being imposing. So was nolan.

 

[SwordOfMorning]

I still say Alan Ritchson, every time I turn on the internet there is news about fan-casting batman and his name pops up, and memes etc. He is basically Batman in Reacher. He is imposing, over 6 feet and looks like he can scare criminals. Picking another skinny whiny pattison type figure from europe who can barely act or prove believability has been done to death before. Let Damian move into that territory. Bats in the comics especially drawn by Smith was over 6 feet and super muscular. It doesn't make sense not to do this. Heck, even Affleck's Batman came at least close to being imposing. So was nolan.

Lol, sorry, what do you mean has been done to death? That's, I suppose, meant to be an insulting description of Pattinson but who in God's name thinks he can barely act and also applies to literally no one who has been cast as Batman. It's not just about literal physical size in a movie, it's screen presence - Keaton was wildly more intimidating than Affleck because (and I say this as a huge fan of Affleck's perfromance) he's a much better actor who has more of a menacing presence in the suit.

If you're married to a super physically imposing Batman there's lots of actual great actors out there - to name two I think would be great, Jake Gyllenhaal and Lee Pace are in monster shape. While also feeling like Batman. Something Ritchson is literally not capable of doing. He is, genuinely, the worst popular Batman fancast I've ever seen - there's not a single thing about him that feels like the character and he isn't a good enough actor to change that.

I don't even think the kind of big Ritchson is looks all that good on screen for Batman, tbh. At a certain point you're just going to look like a Yeti in the Batsuit.

 

[SwordOfMorning]

I'll take it a step further about Ritchson and size: you know who is more intimidating than him on screen, having played the same character? Noted lil guy Tom Cruise. Because Cruise is a real actor and Ritchson is a tree stump carved into something vaguely man-shaped.

 

[B]

I'll take it a step further about Ritchson and size: you know who is more intimidating than him on screen, having played the same character? Noted lil guy Tom Cruise. Because Cruise is a real actor and Ritchson is a tree stump carved into something vaguely man-shaped.

Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel.

 

[flickchick85]

Alan Ritchson really is one of the worst popular Batman fancasts I’ve encountered in quite a while, though.

 

[SwordOfMorning]

Alan Ritchson really is one of the worst popular Batman fancasts I’ve encountered in quite a while, though.

Yes but what if we went from one of the most acclaimed, respected actors of his generation to a dude with the talent and screen presence of the average lead of a Godfrey Ho movie?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I'm geninuely surprised by fancasting of the DC a lot of the time. The most renowned DC actors weren't hulks, brainless or not. They were thespians. Reeve, Keaton, Bale, Pattinson, Nicholson, Ledger, Hardy, Farrell, Dano, Wright, Turturro, Milioti, Oldman, Eckhart, Caine.

Did everyone get brain broke by the DCEU?

 

[emielaen]

I still say Alan Ritchson, every time I turn on the internet there is news about fan-casting batman and his name pops up, and memes etc. He is basically Batman in Reacher. He is imposing, over 6 feet and looks like he can scare criminals. Picking another skinny whiny pattison type figure from europe who can barely act or prove believability has been done to death before. Let Damian move into that territory. Bats in the comics especially drawn by Smith was over 6 feet and super muscular. It doesn't make sense not to do this. Heck, even Affleck's Batman came at least close to being imposing. So was nolan.

Absolutely hilarious to go with the bad actor route re: Pattinson while backing Alan Ritchson though.

 

[WayneMB]

I still say Alan Ritchson, every time I turn on the internet there is news about fan-casting batman and his name pops up, and memes etc. He is basically Batman in Reacher. He is imposing, over 6 feet and looks like he can scare criminals. Picking another skinny whiny pattison type figure from europe who can barely act or prove believability has been done to death before. Let Damian move into that territory. Bats in the comics especially drawn by Smith was over 6 feet and super muscular. It doesn't make sense not to do this. Heck, even Affleck's Batman came at least close to being imposing. So was nolan.

lmfao. this is definitely one of the posts of all time

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I still say Alan Ritchson, every time I turn on the internet there is news about fan-casting batman and his name pops up, and memes etc. He is basically Batman in Reacher. He is imposing, over 6 feet and looks like he can scare criminals. Picking another skinny whiny pattison type figure from europe who can barely act or prove believability has been done to death before. Let Damian move into that territory. Bats in the comics especially drawn by Smith was over 6 feet and super muscular. It doesn't make sense not to do this. Heck, even Affleck's Batman came at least close to being imposing. So was nolan.

I really love the idea of beliavbility when it comes to Batman. That some people think being a muscle bound dude who is a massive target and can't move is somehow a more believable ninja. As if you know, he wouldn't die the first time he ran into someone with a gun in the first place.

 

[GreenKToo]

This batman will probably be in his late 30's or early 40s.
That said, you could get an older actor who could pull off that age. 30s to 40s.
Alan to me seems better suited for shazam/captain marvel.

 

[HydraSith12]

I hope this movie comes out before 2030 but i doubt it i think the late 2020s will be the age of Reeves the Batman franchise but the new Batman may appear in the Clayface movie