S’up, nerds, hope you like speculation. So Zack Snyder’s Superman movie, Man of Steel opens June 2013, with WB hoping that it will pave the way for their own Avengers-style superhero supergroup movie in 2015, Justice League, earning them boatloads of sweet, greasy, nerd money. A key component of that supergroup is obviously Batman. Trouble is, Chris Nolan is pretty much done directing superhero movies, so they don’t know exactly where that story line is going. But according to our friend Drew at Hitfix, in the confusingly question-mark-headlined “Is Joseph Gordon-Levitt already set to play Batman in ‘Justice League’?”, Joseph Gordon-Levitt will ‘absolutely’ be Justice League‘s Batman.
Certainly, the ending of “The Dark Knight Rises” hints at a possible future for the franchise, and there has been much speculation about whether or not they’ll work to connect the end of that film to the larger world of DC properties that Warner is so desperate to create. Over the last couple of weeks, that speculation seems to have turned into conversation, and that conversation seems to be solidifying into a plan.
According to sources, Joseph Gordon-Levitt absolutely will be appearing in “Justice League” as the new Batman.
But wait, didn’t they make a big thing about JGL’s name being “Robin” at the end of Dark Knight Rises? (Spoiler alert). Robin is Batman now? How does that work? (And please, don’t explain).
Now here’s where things get interesting. The more insistent the drumbeat has become, the more poking around I’ve been doing, and it’s looking like we may see Gordon-Levitt in the suit earlier than that. They’re a long way from filming anything “Justice League” related, but they appear to be solidifying deals for Gordon-Levitt and, potentially, at least one other actor from the Nolan films to do… something. |HitFix|
DUNT DUNT DUNNNNN…. That “something,” according to Drew, could be some kind of post-credits sequence in Man of Steel introducing JGL-Batman to the Superman universe. Oh man, I think I doubled my dandruff just typing that.
Look, I liked The Avengers as much as the next guy, but every time they get someone talented involved in this Justice League project, I’m torn between being happy about the project and sad about that talented person not being able to work on something less stupid. What do the other Justice Leaguers even do? Just hang around keeping kryptonite away from Superman? DC is no Marvel, they have like one and a half good superheroes. Kick me out of the clubhouse if you must, but you know what I’d much rather see than Justice League? Another Hesher, Looper, or 50/50.
Hahaha, I kid! Let’s speculate about who’ll play Wonder Woman! Hopefully someone with big boobs!
UPDATE: Levitt’s reps are refuting the rumor, for whatever that’s worth.
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But…Bruce Wayne is batman. Right?
Well, you see, after the storyline ‘Batman:RIP’ the first Robin, who was Nightwing…
*Gets stuffed into a locker*
Er, what I meant to say this is cool bros, but no one is saying that he won’t just be the new Bruce Wayne.
*Chugs beer, smashes against head, ‘Murica.*
This picture is fake.
“DC is no Marvel, they have like one and a half good superheroes”
In the film universe sure in every other media aspect DC is onpar/better than Marvel.
I just want them to bring over Bruce Timm and the other people involved in the DCAU to give a story treatment to the Justice League movie since they know what makes it click. A Superman vs Darkseid beatdown would be pretty awesome.
Nerd Alert.
Yeah, DC has a great list of hero’s, and way better villains. Even before Iron Man and Thor movies, you would be hard pressed to find an average person knowing them. X-men (and even then just a few of them), Spiderman, Hulk and Cap were the only really well know marvel characters. Maybe Fantastic four. Also the Avengers is basically 3 ppl, just like JL (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman) If done right I could see JL doing great numbers. The only problem is, do they commit to a three movie ark as JL, or go the Avengers route and do a bunch of stand alone’s and then do the JL movie.
Flash is also a very well recognized hero. GL could be… I think of him more like Thor. Folks might recognize him, but he’s no Batman/Spider-Man, etc. Flash though? Everyone knows the Flash (and Joel McHale) should play him. As for the arks, DC’s comics are different from Marvel. Almost every DC hero has their own city and territory, and get together in the JLA, but even that is kept pretty separate from the rest. The JLA movie should be it’s own thing, all the while having a Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, whoever the hell else movies do their own thing too. Marvel on the other hand is pretty much all set in NYC. The Fantastic Four stumble upon some crazy cosmic nonsense, the Avengers deal with it, and Spider-Man and Dare Devil clean up the street level messes. The X-Men are in Westchester, so they don’t ever do too much.
Michael Jai White as Black Aquaman would be a filmic DC gamechanger.
Why have him be Black Aquaman, though? I’d rather pay my ticket money to see The Justice League ask Black Dynamite to join the team.
I really hope they keep Nolan’s Batman and Justice League Batman separate. I’m all for more JGL but this is just fucking stupid.
Without Nolan and Bale, does it matter anymore?
My biggest problem (of many) with this possibility is that in such a Justice League movie, some dickhead with the name of Robin (Not even a Robin-Robin: Dick, Tim, Jason, etc) would be Batman and Bruce Wayne would be off somewhere in the world living the high life? No way they would do that. It’s completely retarded.
Maybe Justice League will start out with JGL and then at the last minute they’ll have to make a change and CGI in someone else.
*crosses fingers* Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise, Kevin Clash…
Why are they cramming Justice League down our throats? they could do a Flash movie….a Lobo movie would be badass. JGL as Nightwing would be ok, just ignore the Robin and go straight to Nightwing.
$$$$$
They can also skip Nightwing and go straight to Dick Grayson Batman. Hell, even throw in some Damian Wayne while your at it. Talia got Batman’s juice in DKR, remember.
“it’s looking like we may see Gordon-Levitt in the suit earlier than that”
So…trick-or-treating on Halloween 2013? On a float at Mardi Gras? Marching in The Santa Claus Lane Parade in Hollywood? “Dress-Up Night” at Tyler Perry’s house?
So, Christina Hendricks, right?
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I think this is an awful idea. If there’s a Justice League it should have the Bruce Wayne Batman not John Blake. Reboot the entire thing or bring back Bale.
I’m nothing more than a 10 year old parading around as a 28 year old adult, and I would love to see a Justice League movie, but I can’t take the 2-4 years of breathless rumors. I don’t care that much.
fat asian man united child is my favourite JLA member.
Bros and Broette’s,
The best Wonder Woman choice is obviously Maggie from the Walking Dead but with long hair and breast implants. I’ll take my money now WB
Also Christopher Walken with a shitty british accent as Alfred or GTFO
too bad Haley Atwell is in the Marvel universe.
Nevermind. Just dye Alice Eve’s hair brown. And get her to lift that restraining order. Your welcome again, DC
At least this new Batman suit means an actor doesn’t need to do anything radical like “work out” to prepare for the role. Jonah Hill could put on that suit and be all “look at my ripped abs, dudes!”
Please, start working for a studio. I want to see this more than any other movie real or imagined.
I want to wedgie this entire thread so hard that the waist band on its underwear goes all the way over its head and hooks under its chin
The problem with not going the full Avengers route is that they’re going to end up having to spend 90% of the movie setting up “bad-ass” entrances/introductions for each character (Someone calls a trenchcoat wearing Wonder Woman fresh from the Themascyera “tootz” or something and gets punched 500 miles, someone makes a joke about Aquaman talking to fish and he spears them with a trident and has them ripped in half by sharks while Disturbed WAH AH AH’s in the background, etc.)
I’m sorry, you wrote problem? Looks like all you wrote were solutions.
JGL should just be Nightwing, absolutely not Batman, and just skip over his time period as Robin. Then again im sure we willl hear many more rumors over who the next Batman will be so i regret ever beginning to type this whole thing. Im sorry.
His real name is Robin, he becomes Batman at the end of the Dark Knight Rises. He stands on a platform in the Batcave, which then rises up with a smash cut to “THE DARK KNIGHT RISES” title card. I guess the ending wasn’t painfully obvious enough for people, so maybe Nolan should have wrote in a bit where JGL looks to the camera, smiles and then says “I’m Batman now!”.
Yes, the only reason he was named “Robin” was because it was a nod to the audience. His character, his spirit in the movie you could argue was Robin-like, but he wasn’t intended to BE the Robin sidekick from the comics. It was shown that he would become another symbol, another Batman, which I also thought that was pretty much spelled out. So to recap, he would not be Robin, or Nightwing, because he was going to take the mantle of the Batman- but this trilogy ended, also ending this Batman universe on film, so if WB honors Nolan’s idea, then there will never be any movie linking JGL with Batman. This is just a rumor. WB would be dumb to do this.
My money isn’t THAT greasy and I’d love to see a Dial H movie
Bring in Paul Dini and see what they can do.
Also, there’s that whole thing with the ending montage being a recreation of a key scene in Batman Begins.
I loved that, where he holds up the light and the bats fly around him. Scenes like that make me happy, where I know many of the people watching the movie with me in the theater didn’t even realize it mirrored Bruce’s introduction. There’s also dialogue that mirrors Begins, like Lucious talking to Bruce and he says it takes a “better” mind to fix the autopilot. There was a similar exchange between Bruce and his father on the monorail. You can sum that up to Nolan’s writing style, but I like to think it was intentionally mirrored (But not as obvious as others like the Bane dialogue of theatricality and Deception) and even in TDK there’s similar situations.
Thankfully, I spy C-Tates in the pic. But where is Vince Vaughn eating an ice cream cone?
Hipster Batman fights crime by using twine to affix a restored gatling gun to his fixed gear and spends his mornings blogging about how fucking awesome Nate Silver is. Eh? Eh? (*tapdances off stage*)
This is the worst news ever.
What, no “Prepare your anus” Ewok in the photoshop?
Nolan’s Bruce Wayne: Guys in tights?……..*hands Bat-suit to Robin*
Never say never with Nolan….he also said at one point he would never use a robin type character…then throws in Drake to be slick…..never count out the power of the dollar
lets just keep nolan away anything related to batman…..
Plus, you know that if Gordon-Levitt plays Batman he’ll never get anything done under the cowl because Gotham citizens will constantly be stopping him and going “Hey, aren’t you Bruce Willis?”