Batman: Former Superman Actor Wants Coveted DCU Role

A former Superman actor is trying to commerce within the Man of Metal’s crimson trunks for Batman‘s cape and cowl.

What Superman actor needs to play DCU Batman?

At this 12 months’s Fan Expo Canada, former Man of Metal performers Brandon Routh (Superman Returns), Tom Welling (Smallville), Tyler Hoechlin (Supergirl, Superman & Lois), Tim Daly (Superman: The Animated Collection), and George Newbern (Justice League) united for a panel hosted by ScreenRant’s Joe Deckelmeier. It was throughout this panel that Hoechlin, who had been requested to touch upon whether or not Robert Pattinson’s Batman would work in James Gunn’s DC Universe, revealed that he wished to take a crack at enjoying the enduring Caped Crusader.

“Properly, selfishly, I’m going to say no as a result of I nonetheless wish to play Batman,” Hoechlin acknowledged. “I feel and I say that Rob did a implausible, implausible job and [with] Matt Reeves it was nice. So I’m comfortable to allow them to preserve doing their factor, and perhaps go away the door open for perhaps an extra entire new envisioning of Batman versus Superman.”

Hoechlin first appeared as Clark Kent/Superman in a number of episodes of Supergirl Season 2 earlier than returning for a number of Arrowverse crossover occasions. He then headlined the spinoff, Superman & Lois, which aired for 4 seasons on The CW from 2021 to 2024.

As for Batman, James Gunn has repeatedly acknowledged that no actor will likely be forged to play the DCU’s Darkish Knight till the screenplay for The Courageous and the Daring is completed. Within the meantime, DC Studios is gearing as much as start manufacturing on The Batman Half II, which can characteristic Pattinson because the titular Gotham Metropolis-based vigilante. Whereas some followers have expressed curiosity in seeing Pattinson additionally play the DCU’s Batman, Gunn has indicated that it is vitally unlikely and {that a} new actor will likely be chosen for the position.

The Courageous and the Daring stays undated right now, whereas The Batman Half II is scheduled to hit theaters on October 1, 2027.

(Supply: Display Rant)

Initially reported by Lee Freitag for SuperHeroHype.