THE BOYS Star Jensen Ackles Set To Reprise BATMAN Role For Upcoming Animated Project - UPDATE

THE BOYS Star Jensen Ackles Set To Reprise BATMAN Role For Upcoming Animated Project - UPDATE

Jensen Ackles voiced The Dark Knight in both installments of Batman: The Long Halloween, and The Boys star has now revealed that he's set to reprise the role for an upcoming DC animated project.

By MarkCassidy - Jun 15, 2022 06:06 PM EST
Filed Under: The Boys

UPDATE: Warner Bros. has clarified that Ackles was actually referring to the Long Halloween movies, and not an upcoming project.

Jensen Ackles has revealed that he's set to reprise the role of Batman for an upcoming DC animated project.

The Supernatural alum, who can currently be seen scorching the Earth as Soldier Boy in the third season of Prime Video's The Boys, played The Dark Knight in Batman: The Long Halloween Parts 1 and 2, and told Late Night host Seth Myers that he'll once again be lending his voice to the iconic hero during an appearance on his show.

"Yep. In fact, I just spent about three and a half hours in the studio yesterday doing, uh, doing Batman," He confirmed after being asked about his previous gig as the voice of the Red Hood. "That was a big deal. I don't want to drop that ball."

Back in January, Ackles told former Smallville costar Michael Rosenbaum that he was working on a new DC-based project, but didn't want to spill any details in case it fell through.

"There is a DC property that I'm currently developing right now with Warner Bros. and some other good partners that I've got my fingers crossed for," he said at the time. "But, again, I'm not going to talk about it because I don't want to jinx it."

Could this mysterious animated project be the properly Ackles was referring to? It's entirely possible, but there's always a chance he's working on another - potentially live-action - movie or TV show for the studio.

We'll hopefully get some more details soon, but for now, check out Ackles' Late Night interview in the player below.

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Spongebob
Spongebob - 6/15/2022, 6:04 PM
bobevanz
bobevanz - 6/15/2022, 6:43 PM
@DonaldTrumps -
dracula
dracula - 6/15/2022, 6:07 PM
Long Halloween was a good first outing in the role, considering how that movie ended, we can probably rule out Dark Victory

Would be cool to see Robin Year One, but think we should get one more solo batman movie before introducing Robin

Would love Court Of Owls, but that would really need a two parter and doubt they would do one this soon.

All the other films in this universe have taken inspiration from stories but not actually adapted them, so an original batman story would be cool

maybe world's finest
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 6/15/2022, 6:21 PM
@dracula - I wouldn't mind it if they just made the animated movies longer. One hour 15 minutes is about the median I guess, but some stories (like Court of Owls) could use up to two hours
dracula
dracula - 6/15/2022, 6:35 PM
@bkmeijer1 - yeah. If they ever do court of owls it needs two parts or an extended tun time compared to the rest
Arthorious
Arthorious - 6/15/2022, 6:58 PM
@dracula - I'd be down for the world's finest. I do like the direction of this animated universe so far.
OmegaBlack13
OmegaBlack13 - 6/15/2022, 8:28 PM
@dracula - What stories did Superman and JSA take inspiration from?
dracula
dracula - 6/15/2022, 8:37 PM
@OmegaBlack13 - Superman obviously took from American Alien

JSA (and the new green lantern) seem very influenced by several episodes of justice league and justice league unlimited. (Savage Time, Legends, etc)
dracula
dracula - 6/15/2022, 6:07 PM
Hope we get a solo wonder woman, set on earth prime
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 6/15/2022, 6:10 PM
TLH was great. Thought the whole voice cast crushed it.
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 6/15/2022, 6:12 PM
Just watched Justice Society: World War II last night. One of the most nonsensical DC animated movies I have ever seen. Such a mess.

I also watched Batman: Soul of the Dragon and that, however, was excellent.
Kadara
Kadara - 6/15/2022, 6:21 PM
@THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - I watched Soul of the Dragon a while back. Love, love the soundtrack of it. Justice Society is disappointing eh? Hmm that sucks.
dracula
dracula - 6/15/2022, 6:38 PM
@THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - thought Soul of the dragon was pretty mediocre

Felt less a batman elseworld and more like they came up with a plot and threw batman into it for sales

Would have liked it more as just a Richard Dragon movie

Would say JSA is the weakest of this universe so far but i liked it, this universe is already much more consistent than the last one
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 6/15/2022, 8:21 PM
@dracula - Yeah it was definitely not a Batman movie, false advertising. But personally I found Batman having a secondary role among a group of lesser known DC characters to actually be quite refreshing.
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 6/15/2022, 8:40 PM
@Kadara - JS had a lot of potential on paper but it goes in very weird directions and is riddled with plotholes. It felt like there was no payoff for any of the characters besides Barry.
KWilly
KWilly - 6/15/2022, 6:17 PM
I'm assuming it's an actual Justice League movie. This new "Man of Tomorrow-verse" has been building itself quite well
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 6/15/2022, 6:23 PM
@KWilly - could be. Superman, Batman, Martian Manhunter, Flash and Wonder Woman have all been set up, and Green Lantern is gonna join soon. Only one left is Aquaman
UGLYsonic
UGLYsonic - 6/15/2022, 6:21 PM
Super super weird idea, but I think it would be awesome to make a sequel to Batman Beyond called The Last Bat, but where Terry McGuiness is now a middle aged man (not elderly like Bruce was) who's physically incapable of being Batman anymore, perhaps he's paralyzed or is sick and dying from his clone DNA falling apart... and has to come to terms with Bruce's legacy and if he should continue the tradition of a succesor of the Bat mantle, or retire it all and let The Bat die with him. But with the pure Wayne bloodline dead after Bruce and Damien die (Terry being a "clone" makes his blood unusable), and when the current Head of the Demon decides the Grayson bloodline is sufficient and kidnaps the grand Daughter of Dick and Barbara, Terry enlists the aid of an elderly Superman who's still superheroing to rescue her, and Terry decides she must be trained and she will be The Last Bat.

I think Jensen would be a perfect middle aged Terry.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 6/15/2022, 6:25 PM
@UGLYsonic - that definitely an interesting angle. Think it could work.

Would add a character like Cassandra Cain though (maybe even as the new Head of the Demon)
UGLYsonic
UGLYsonic - 6/15/2022, 6:26 PM
@bkmeijer1 - I like that idea.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 6/15/2022, 6:36 PM
@UGLYsonic - I like this a lot. Nice concept.
Kadara
Kadara - 6/15/2022, 6:22 PM
I was watching that interview, Seth Meyers is now my favorite late night host, it was like a week ago lol!
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 6/15/2022, 6:27 PM
I read the title and almost thought he was gonna make the jump to live-action. Think he could make a good Batman for the Arrowverse, even though we already have someone in that role (although we've never seen him as Bruce Wayne in the flesh)
GhostDog
GhostDog - 6/15/2022, 6:35 PM
He was solid. Nothing particular memorable

#BringBackSisto


Wonder what story they’re adapting
dracula
dracula - 6/15/2022, 6:46 PM
@GhostDog - if its not kevin conroy, they should get him for Caped Crusader

Really if they do other dc shows in that retro style caped crusader is using you could just use that entire cast from new frontier for each of them
GhostDog
GhostDog - 6/15/2022, 7:00 PM
@dracula - he would fit Capes Crusader SO [frick]ING WELL.

I didn’t even think about it until now. Wow. He literally gave you a great noir Batman already
micvalpro
micvalpro - 6/15/2022, 6:41 PM
Looks like he’s the new animated Batman for WB going forward.
They should Get rid of the CW Batman projects and make him the CW Batman introduced in Superman and Lois.
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 6/15/2022, 6:47 PM
Off topic: The latest in the trainwreck that is Ezra Miller.
https://www.cbr.com/the-flash-ezra-miller-instagram-posting-memes-mocking-courts/amp/
dracula
dracula - 6/15/2022, 6:49 PM
@Feralwookiee - the first semi intelligent thing he has done since this whole thing started

Still being incredibly stupid
IcePyke
IcePyke - 6/15/2022, 7:35 PM
@Feralwookiee -
Someone catch this idiot!

Lokiwasright
Lokiwasright - 6/15/2022, 6:58 PM
First batman project in awhile. I was going through withdrawals.
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