{"id":946503,"date":"2026-10-30T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946503\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:08:09","slug":"new-batman-casting-isnt-far-away-teases-james-gunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946503\/","title":{"rendered":"New Batman Casting \u2018Isn\u2019t Far Away,\u2019 Teases James Gunn"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new Batman is coming. No, not the Matt Reeves sequel<\/a>, though that, too, is coming. We mean James Gunn\u2019s Batman<\/a>. The new DCU Batman. The one we\u2019ll potentially see on screen with David Corenswet\u2019s Superman, Aaron Pierre\u2019s John Stewart, John Cena\u2019s Peacemaker, and others.<\/p>\n

Gunn and fellow DC President Peter Safran have long made it clear that Batman will play a key role in their ongoing DC Universe, and that he won\u2019t be played by Robert Pattinson. So who will it be and when? On his new podcast canonizing The Suicide Squad<\/a>, Gunn teased fans that the casting is coming and gave a few other details too.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt won\u2019t be too long before we\u2019re casting Batman,\u201d Gunn says on the podcast<\/a>. \u201cWe haven\u2019t cast yet, by the way. All the people thinking he\u2019ll show up in this or that, it\u2019s all bullshit. When we do cast the DCU Batman, which isn\u2019t very far away, if I gave somebody a day role in The Suicide Squad that is going to be the best Batman, I\u2019m not going to rule him out from that. I want to get everybody into account. One of the things that excites me about casting Batman is being able to pick a Batman who\u2019s actually the best actor for that role. Superman\u2019s have always been chosen based on who the best actor for that role is. And for some reason, Batmans are always chosen as movie stars.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, maybe this Batman won\u2019t be a movie star. Which is intriguing. Batman himself is a movie star, after all. Much as Spider-Man and James Bond are the stars, not Andrew Garfield or Daniel Craig (until they accept the roles of course). Gunn went on to tease a bit more.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are always looking for little hints about the casting of Batman,\u201d he said. \u201cRoughly, Batman and Superman are around the same age. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re drastically different ages. They\u2019re future best pals. Contemporaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Best pals, huh? Intriguing. So no Batman vs. Superman just yet. As for the age thing, in real life, David Corenswet is 33 and, we\u2019d imagine, that\u2019s probably about what his Superman is too. So Gunn will be casting the best actor for the role, around the age of 30 or so.<\/p>\n

But will it be for The Brave and the Bold as previously believed? Will it be something else? And how will the 2028 release of The Batman Part II play a part? Apparently, those choices and more are no longer far away.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out the best movies and TV shows<\/a> to stream this month and all the upcoming sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books<\/a> that should be on your radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Batman is coming. No, not the Matt Reeves sequel, though that, too, is coming. We mean…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,8861,6138,134,5605,344,184641],"class_list":["post-946503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-batman","tag-dc-universe","tag-entertainment","tag-james-gunn","tag-movies","tag-the-brave-and-the-bold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}