{"id":251056,"date":"2025-11-08T10:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T10:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251056\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T10:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T10:32:18","slug":"alan-ritchson-wants-to-play-messy-dc-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251056\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Ritchson Wants To Play ‘Messy’ DC Role"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Amazon<\/p>\n

\u201cReacher\u201d star Alan Ritchson has confirmed he\u2019s had discussions that could see him joining James Gunn and Peter Safran\u2019s DC Universe.<\/p>\n

Ritchson has played two DC characters to date \u2013 Arthur Curry\/Aquaman in \u201cSmallville\u201d and Hank Hall\/Hawk in \u201cTitans\u201d. Previously, he turned down suggestions about taking over the Aquaman role again.<\/p>\n

More recently, rumours have swirled that he\u2019s up to play Batman\/Bruce Wayne. Speaking with Screen Rant<\/a>, Ritchson has partly shot down that fancasting, saying the role he wants to play is someone decidedly \u2018messier\u2019 than most heroes.<\/p>\n

Asked if there was a chance of him joining the DCU and if he\u2019d potentially be interested in playing a villain. He says:<\/p>\n

\u201cYes. That\u2019s the conversation that I\u2019ve been having with them is like, \u2018I want to play somebody a little messier.\u2019 And I told them, I said, if I\u2019m going to do this, I described to them the kind of personality that I\u2019d want to play and what that would mean to their world, and I think it\u2019s something everybody wants to see right now over there. So yes, I want to play somebody a little dirtier than your typical clean-cut protagonist.\u201d<\/p>\n

What the role could be isn\u2019t clear. The next three DCU projects \u2013 \u201cSupergirl,\u201d \u201cLanterns,\u201d and \u201cClayface\u201d \u2013 have all wrapped filming with \u201cMan of Tomorrow\u201d to shoot early next year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon \u201cReacher\u201d star Alan Ritchson has confirmed he\u2019s had discussions that could see him joining James Gunn and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[94966,6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-251056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251056","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=251056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}