{"id":178437,"date":"2025-10-04T04:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178437\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T04:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:42:10","slug":"james-gunn-says-everybody-wants-to-play-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178437\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn says everybody wants to play Batman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the car, right? Actors dig the car.<\/p>\n<p>Already building hype for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/batman-james-gunn-movie-dcu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Batman: The Brave And The Bold<\/a>, DC Studios chief James Gunn says that he\u2019s fending off Hollywood\u2019s biggest actors who want that lucky spot under the cowl. \u201cI can\u2019t tell you the amount of big actors that have told me they want to be Batman,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/james-gunn-says-plenty-of-things-are-in-flux-on-batman-the-brave-and-the-bold-and-damian-wayne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gunn told IGN<\/a>. \u201cI think you\u2019d have a harder time finding actors who don\u2019t want to be Batman. He\u2019s the one character everyone wants to play. That\u2019s the truth.\u201d Gunn didn\u2019t divulge which actors wanted to play the role, presumably because they have not yet been cast and the script is still in flux. When pressed if the film would still feature Batdad Bruce Wayne breaking the legs of desperate Gothamites with his 10-year-old son, Damian, Gunn admitted, \u201cSome things have changed,\u201d particularly regarding \u201chis parenage and all that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like Batman is still Gunn\u2019s \u201cbiggest issue in all of DC right now,\u201d and it\u2019s not hard to see why. Gunn\u2019s Batman movie would be in contrast to the studio\u2019s other Batman movie, Matt Reeves\u2019 The Batman: Part II. Previously, there had been such a fervor for details on the latter that Gunn suggested everyone \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/james-gunn-batman-part-ii-matt-reeves-nuts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">get off Matt Reeves\u2019 nuts<\/a>\u201d about it. Now people are starting to get on Gunn\u2019s, uh, case about the character, and it\u2019s leaving the director with little to add other than \u201cyou have to wait to see exactly what\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last we heard, Flash director Andy Muschietti would helm Gunn\u2019s Batman film. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/batman-the-brave-and-the-bold-finds-director-in-the-flashs-andy-muschietti\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DC announced that in 2023,<\/a> a day before The Flash entered the Speed Force in theaters. Given the response to Flash, which some may forget was also a Batman movie and was not well-received, it would be somewhat surprising to see him behind the camera. However, WB hired him for the IT TV show after IT: Chapter 2, so it\u2019s clear they still appreciate what Muschietti has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/james-gunn-peacemaker-superman-political-parallels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Gunn swears it&#8217;s not his if fault reality keeps rhyming with his &#8220;stupid TV show&#8221;<\/a><a class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/peacemaker-reap-season-2-episode-6-ignorance-is-chris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Gunn returns to the director&#8217;s chair for Peacemaker&#8217;s best episode of the season<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the car, right? Actors dig the car. Already building hype for Batman: The Brave And The Bold,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-178437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}