{"id":102678,"date":"2025-08-28T06:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102678\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:59:07","slug":"no-batman-for-chris-pratt-says-james-gunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102678\/","title":{"rendered":"No Batman For Chris Pratt Says James Gunn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Pratt won\u2019t be playing Batman anytime soon or at all, according to James Gunn, but the actor still has a future in the DCU.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt, of course, played Star-Lord in Gunn\u2019s Guardians of the Galaxy movies and the Avengers films.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1145\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/chris-pratt-batman-fan-art.jpg\" alt=\"chris pratt batman fan art\" class=\"wp-image-145496\" title=\"chris pratt batman fan art\"   loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What does James Gunn say about Chris Pratt as Batman?<\/p>\n<p>While appearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@elpelucheenelestuche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">PelucheEn ElEstuche<\/a>, Gunn is asked if Pratt will be playing Batman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Batman? No,\u201d replied Gunn. As something? Yes\u2026 Chris Pratt is one of my best friends. We talk all the time. He\u2019s a great guy. He would love to do something at DC. I would love for him to do something at DC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"947\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/chris-pratt-wonder-woman-fan-art.jpg\" alt=\"chris pratt wonder woman fan art\" class=\"wp-image-145497\" title=\"chris pratt wonder woman fan art\"   fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gunn is then asked if Pratt will play Wonder Woman, which drew a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would be a terrible Wonder Woman,\u201d said Gunn. \u201cThat would be terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"976\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/chri-pratt-shazam.jpg\" alt=\"chri pratt shazam\" class=\"wp-image-145498\" title=\"chri pratt shazam\"   fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gunn also said no to Shazam, and when asked who he could play replied, \u201cI have to think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also remarked that Gunn is going to bring some of his best friends to the MCU, which Gunn confirmed he already has, as some of them appear in the Superman movie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor audiences that have seen Superman, they already know there are a couple of people in Superman that I worked with at Marvel,\u201d said Gunn.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/james-gunn-batman-2-robin-rumor.webp.webp\" alt=\"James Gunn Denies Robin Rumor for The Batman Part II\" class=\"wp-image-144430\" title=\"james gunn batman 2 robin rumor\"   fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The future of Batman in the DCU<\/p>\n<p>As we just went over, <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbook.news\/tyler-hoechlin-wants-play-james-gunn-batman\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cosmicbook.news\/tyler-hoechlin-wants-play-james-gunn-batman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Hoechlin recently threw his name in the hat to play the DCU Dark Knight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Brave and the Bold is still said to be happening.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Reeves\u2019 The Batman: Part II is also getting released in 2027 and will be separate from the DCU. At least for now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Pratt won\u2019t be playing Batman anytime soon or at all, according to James Gunn, but the actor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[9348,49,48,361,19628,75,47439,867],"class_list":["post-102678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-batman","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-chris-pratt","tag-entertainment","tag-guardians-of-the-galaxy","tag-james-gunn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}