Batman & Supes: Maybe WB got the memo after all?

[Mouseferatu]

Add to the list of DC properties that are soon to be ruined on the silver screen: Keanu Reeves as John Constantine. I may puke. Is James Marsters just too obvious a choice? I mean, what was the problem? God have mercy on us all if Keanu tries to do an English accent again (granted, I'm not from England, but Marsters had me fooled for years, even alongside Anthony Stewart Head, who really is English).

Well, I've got sort of a good news/bad news situation for you. If rumor is to be beleived...

Good news: you need not worry about Keanu trying to do a British accent.

Bad news: because the geniuses at the studio are supposedly planning to make Constantine an American.

Granted, this is all net rumor, but it's the same source where I first heard the part had gone to Mr. Whoah in the first place, so take that for whatever it's worth.

And I agree, it should have been James Marsters all the way.

 

[Henry]

I read somewhere that Dominic Purcell had been cast as the not-so-secret villain in Blade III (hint - Blade debuted in his comic book, which I believe was the first, and perhaps the only, comic ever named for the villain).

Holy Crap! Are you telling me Wesley Snipes' Blade will be fighting none other than...

...Ambush Bug!?!?!




(Seriously, I know who you refer to, and I will be interested to see him as the Big D.)

 

[Chain Lightning]

I'm with you guys who didn't like Michael Keaton either. Yeah, I didn't like the choice before the movie, I didn't like it after. Don't get me wrong, Keaton's acting was fine. But no amount of acting can get pass the fact that Keaton came no where near what Bruce Wayne is suppose to look like. What years and years of comics have put into our heads what he needs to look like for fans to buy it. Its like casting Whoopi Goldberg as Storm from X-Men. Great actress but c'mon....

Clooney, looks wise, had the Bruce Wayne part down. Rich billionare playboy? Yep. Kilmer was like the closest over all. Didn't quite look like Wayne, but a lot more so than Keaton , and he didn't act goofy like Clooney.

 

[Gnome Berzerker]

Just put Kevin Smith back on the job, and you'd have the best frikkin' Superman movie ever made.

 

[Ristamar]

Keaton was money...

I thought Keaton was easily the best Batman. His presence was much darker than the other's, IMO, which is the kind of Bruce/Batman I prefer. Clooney seemed like too much of a playboy, and Kilmer was too smarmy.

 

[Ranger REG]

Hmmm....

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ROTFLMAO!!!

Oh,gawd!!! What's next? Tom Green as Green Lantern?

Thanks, Morrus, for making me smile at the end of a personal bad day.

 

[Ranger REG]

Hmmm, am I the only person that didn't like Keaton as Batman?
I still believe he didn't have the physical presence at all.

Personally, I think I'm the only person that doesn't think Val Kilmer can fill the Batman's boots. Too much of a "babyface" that takes on a future Robin as his ward?

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Personally, I think I'm the only person that doesn't think Val Kilmer can fill the Batman's boots. Too much of a "babyface" that takes on a future Robin as his ward?

That was when I knew the Batman/Robin angle was going to go bad in the next movie. When they made the traditional surrogate father-son relationship of the comics into a older brother-younger brother (or possibly veteran cop-hotshot rookie cop) relationship.

It worked a little bit in Batman Forever, but it was positively awful in Batman and Robin. Robin DOES NOT mouth off to Batman. Robin DOES NOT do what Batman specifically tells him not to do.

Well OK, Jason Todd did, and look what the fans did to him...

 

[KnowTheToe]

Brendan Fraser. Hmm. Still can't get that George of the Jungle or the Encino Man or the Airhead out of my mind.

I guess it will be an action-comedy film?

Yeah, I am not thinking this is a good casting job. I would rather see Mr. Bean if they are going for a comedy.

 

[Ranger REG]

Anyone attached to a new Superman movie needs to put Patrick Warburton in a red-and-blue jumpsuit, give him a curly-Q lock of hair centered on his forehead, and Save themselves a WORLD of grief!

The man is the genetic inheritor of Clark Kent, down to the voice!

Unfortunately, I keep seeing his Blue Tick antenna sticking out of his noggin, or the disgusting thought that he slept with Seinfeld's Elaine (which also brings up her weird dance that haunts my nightmares).

Segue: Of course, anyone who have been around long enough could recall the American Express commercial featuring Jerry Seinfeld and an animated Superman voiced by none other than Patrick himself.