James Gunn has Hollywood\u2019s biggest stars lining up to play Batman.<\/p>\n
In a recent interview with IGN<\/a>, DC Studios boss James Gunn revealed many A-listers have expressed interest in playing the Caped Crusader in the upcoming film, \u201cBatman: The Brave and the Bold.\u201d He also said they are taking some liberties with the well-known Bruce Wayne origin story, and that the film\u2019s plot is still very much \u201cin flux.\u201d<\/p>\n More from Variety<\/p>\n \u201cSome things have changed,\u201d Gunn said. \u201cPlenty of things are in flux on what his situation is with his parentage and all that stuff, so I wouldn\u2019t take any of it \u2013 Yeah, I mean, the actor who wants to\u2026 Listen, first of all, I can\u2019t tell you the amount of big actors that have told me they want to be Batman.\u201d<\/p>\n He added, \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<\/p>\n Christian Bale was the one to bring Batman into the modern era, headlining Christopher Nolan\u2019s highly revered \u201cDark Knight\u201d trilogy. More recently, Robert Pattinson took the reins as the brooding Gotham City vigilante, starring in Matt Reeves\u2019 2022 reboot \u201cThe Batman.\u201d He will also reprise the role in \u201cThe Batman: Part II,\u201d set for release on Oct. 1, 2027.<\/a><\/p>\n Variety exclusively reported in 2023 that \u201cThe Flash\u201d director Andy Muschietti was attached<\/a> to helm \u201cBatman: The Brave and the Bold.\u201d The film is based on the comic series by Grant Morrison, in which Bruce Wayne teams up with his biological son, Damian, who takes on the Robin moniker.<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Gunn has Hollywood\u2019s biggest stars lining up to play Batman. In a recent interview with IGN, DC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[20486,88,208,206],"class_list":["post-202680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-batman","tag-entertainment","tag-james-gunn","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}