Although Ben Affleck’s Dark Knight is ideal for many, Josh Brolin was about to be Zack Snyder’s Batman.
Before Ben Affleck was officially named as Batman, Zack Snyder looked to other actors like Joe Manganiello, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Josh Brolin. The latter has recently spoken about his opinion on almost playing Batman.
During a participation with the podcast Happy, Sad, Confused, Brolin was questioned by Josh Horowitz about this anecdote. The actor replied:
“Yes. That was interesting to me. It was his decision. It wasn’t mine. That was her decision. Again, because it is something that is commanded to not work at all or to work wonderfully. I like that risk. I like to play with those odds. I think ‘am I the guy who will make everything fail?’”.
And then he continued: “By the way, someone who I don’t consider to be wrong, but you know, you talk to [George] Clooney and he still jokes about it. It wasn’t his fault. He loves the nipple prank and that was it Joel [Schumacher]. But, you know, he didn’t do bad at all.”
Josh Brolin nearly was Batman in @ZackSnyder‘suniverse. Some day as that grizzled older Frank Miller Dark Knight? I see it.
Full chat at https://t.co/e84WokCDhq pic.twitter.com/EKHRx1qrqI
— Josh Horowitz (@joshuahorowitz) April 13, 2022
And he finished: “Again, that was before Deadpool 2. It would have been the [Batman] older and rougher, for lack of a better word. Honestly, it would have been a fun deal and maybe I’ll do it one day.”
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