George Clooney Jokes About His Batman Shame

George Clooney Jokes About His Batman Shame

While promoting his latest film, The Ides Of March at The BFI London Film Festival, George Clooney jokes about his time playing The Dark Knight. Hit the link to see the video.

By ComicBuzz - Oct 20, 2011 09:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Batman
Source: Digital Spy



It's good to see that he has a sense of humour about it. George Clooney was reported to have recently said:

"With hindsight it's easy to look back at this and go, 'Woah, that was really s**t and I was really bad in it'.

"The truth is, my phone rang, and the head of Warner Bros said, 'Come into my office, you are going to play Batman in a Batman film', and I said, 'Yeah!' I called my friends and they screamed and I screamed and we couldn't believe it!"


Below we have a video from Digital Spy where when talking about the mutual appreciation there is among actors his co-star Evan Rachel Wood makes a statment and George really can't ignore the elephant in the room any longer.

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MovieMaster
MovieMaster - 10/20/2011, 9:35 AM
its obvious that he didnt even like the script from the beginning, but he just wanted to play batman
ComicBuzz
ComicBuzz - 10/20/2011, 9:39 AM
I don't blame him, its an ironic character - just a shame the scripts were so camp!
ballstothewall
ballstothewall - 10/20/2011, 9:45 AM
He would have been a good Batman if the script was good.
CrowPirate1
CrowPirate1 - 10/20/2011, 11:57 AM
I still say.. not his fault.... it was ALL the director's.
ComicBuzz
ComicBuzz - 10/20/2011, 12:03 PM
Agree with you guys ^^^^^^^^
Jefferys
Jefferys - 10/20/2011, 12:09 PM
I agree with Clooney being an older Batman. He has quite a nice build for Bats, especially since his big around the shoulders. I'd go ahead and probably promote him if he has a good team behind him if he became Batman.
StrangerX
StrangerX - 10/20/2011, 12:18 PM
The script sucked..That's what the problem was.
headlopper
headlopper - 10/20/2011, 12:29 PM
Phuque George Clooney.
He's the self-righteous douche-bag king of Hollywood...after Matt Damon.
KingGhost519
KingGhost519 - 10/20/2011, 12:32 PM
The of the movie is "The Ides of March."
blue18
blue18 - 10/20/2011, 12:32 PM
The script was definite crap. But God bless Clooney - he played the character straight as an arrow...somewhat to his own discredit. I agree with @ballstothewall: I think he would have been a great Batman if the script was better, which is obvious by the acting chops he's had in other films. I guess Hollywood forgave him after "Batman and Robin", eh? :D
avenger1
avenger1 - 10/20/2011, 12:39 PM
ideas of march? ironic character? c'mon man,get it together
ComicBuzz
ComicBuzz - 10/20/2011, 12:40 PM
King Ghost - whoops, spelling mistake there, must have been auto corrected. I can't edit it now for some reason.
KingGhost519
KingGhost519 - 10/20/2011, 12:41 PM
I meant to say the name of the movie is "The Ides of March."
RyanLantern77
RyanLantern77 - 10/20/2011, 12:44 PM
This is super old.... Or at least he uses these same quotes all the time
KingGhost519
KingGhost519 - 10/20/2011, 12:44 PM
@ ComicBuzz

I couldn't edit my very first post. Usually the website would let me. Is there a new thing going on that doesn't allow us to do so?
ComicBuzz
ComicBuzz - 10/20/2011, 12:45 PM
The comments edit has been gone for a while - so we can't edit our comments anymore.

As for the article, once its put on main, I need an editor to fix it...
SuperSpiderMan5778
SuperSpiderMan5778 - 10/20/2011, 1:45 PM
hmmm why does this sound familiar? OH YEAH B/C IT'S OLD FAWKIN NEWS THAT ALREADY BEEN POSTED!!! i want my 10 seconds of my life i wasted on this article BACK!!
MeleeMabe
MeleeMabe - 10/20/2011, 2:27 PM
I could see Clooney as Wayne in the Dark Knight returns
ComicBuzz
ComicBuzz - 10/20/2011, 3:16 PM
SuperSpiderMan, you need to learn to listen... This video was taken today...
brazilianFlash
brazilianFlash - 10/20/2011, 5:57 PM
this was posted already a couple weeks ago.
valeriesghost
valeriesghost - 10/20/2011, 6:46 PM
@SuperSpiderMan5778 I want the 5 secs of my life i wasted reading about you bitching back
SINema666
SINema666 - 10/20/2011, 9:27 PM
Ummmm wait... Can we really blame the studio heads or Shumacher or Clooney?

How about blaming ourselves... When they upped the campy a bit from Returns into Forever, we gave WB like a quadrillion dollars...

So OF COURSE they're gonna keep upping the ante that we have already paid into... if there was zero market for it already, they wouldnt have even tried it... Its our own fault for going to see those pieces of $h!t
SaroM
SaroM - 10/20/2011, 11:33 PM
Yeah, and now he really can't believe it.
RyanLantern77
RyanLantern77 - 10/26/2011, 3:21 PM
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