Nolan Wanted Wes Bentley (not Affleck) To Play BATMAN

Interesting choice.

I wonder how long it'll take before people let it go -_-

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Seriously now: (I'm gonna repeat myself)

There is now way Nolan would recommended Wes for this movie because he never worked with him (maybe, just maybe he participated in Interstellar screen tests, or saw American Beauty). He just started to work on Interstellar in Canada. I'm not even sure Bentley started to shoot his Interstellar scenes. I'm not even sure Bentley was screen testing for Batman. Ben Affleck was probably WB first and last choice.

I wonder what Bentley would look like under the cowl. He has some great piercing eyes that would fit Batman.

@CoulsonLives, The photos are mostly IMDB. Click the first two links for the news sources.

I think it's a wash between Michael Keaton's and Christian Bale's Batman, but Keaton's depiction of Wayne was excellent, especially given the history the time - remember, Burton's Batman was one of the first times superhero characters were being taken seriously by Hollywood.

It was a very big deal that help beat the path to more serious comic book movies, such as X-Men, etc. Burton/Keaton were pioneers.

@Jedi

because of the "mutated Joker ending" ?

@jazzman, Bentley would make an awesome Dr. Strange. Heck, he looks...strange.

@Jedi

never played. But i rely on your opinion :)

NOLAN lost it after DK RISES, what a terrible movie (Mainly to all the DC characters 10 minutes to the end that all good a Hollywood awful ass kicking). I still love BEGINS and TDK tho!

But yeah BENTLEY would be an awesome choice, as for AFFLECK =

BEN as BATS thought it was a joke, still do, cover up for the real casting...

WB done it before!

But then again its HOLLYWOOD, there could be worst for the role and I don't mean he's a bad actor, just not right (MAINLY) for the Bruce Wayne part... anyone can play Batman under the mask if their an actor and look half the part.

DAMON FOR ROBIN!

(Jk) :p

is it just me who thinks he looks a little like Tobey Maguire?

Wes Bentley......?


Yeah I don't think so...

@GerMan, really, you're the idiot who made that petition? Let me explain some things to you, you stupid moron (I usually try to avoid name-calling, but if anyone deserves it you do.) First, contrary to what Obama wants, we are still a constitutional republic, and under our constitution Congress makes laws, not the president. Second, I am 99% sure that if Congress did attempt to pass a law that prevented one particular person from being offered and/or accepting a job, the Supreme Court would declare it unconstitutional. How would you like it if they passed a law saying that you, and only you, could not be employed at your current job (assuming you have a job, that is.) Third, only idiots and extreme left-wing radicals want the government involved in this kind of trivial nonsense. Unless you want a totalitarian government that controls every little aspect of every single person's life, including where they live and what job they get to have (ask some people who lived in the Soviet Union back in the 40s, 50s, 60s about how great it is to have the government decide whether or not you get to go to college, and limits the jobs you're allowed to do.) Finally, Affleck will be fine as Batman, so get over it, get a life, and shut up about it already.

As for the main point of this article, first, I'm not entirely sure I believe it, and even if it is true, it does sound like what someone else suggested, just a fan-cast, just him saying that he could see this guy as Batman, not him actually telling Snyder and WB to hire this guy. Second, after seeing him in Hunger Games, I cannot even remotely see Bentley as Batman. Finally, Nolan is done with Batman. He didn't want his Batman to be part of a DC universe, and he made TDKR end in such a way that it's basically impossible for that Batman to be in the combined DC universe. So as far as I'm concerned, his opinion about who should be Batman means exactly nothing.