George Clooney shocked the DC Universe this summer time when he returned to the position of Bruce Wayne, after 25 years, for a cameo look in The Flash — and is now confirming that was a one-and-done reprisal.
Clooney infamously performed Bruce Wayne/Batman in Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin, the 1997 film that was thought-about one of many worst superhero movies of all time. The actor has repeatedly spoken out towards the movie, telling Howard Stern in 2020, “Akiva Goldsman — who’s gained the Oscar for writing since then — he wrote the screenplay. And it’s a horrible screenplay, he’ll inform you. I’m horrible in it, I’ll inform you.”
However in June, Clooney made a shock return to the position within the remaining moments of The Flash, as Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen is on the cellphone with Bruce Wayne after lastly returning to his personal Earth and timeline. Wayne pulls as much as the courthouse in his automobile and as he will get out, he’s revealed to be performed by Clooney, not the Ben Affleck model of Batman that Barry anticipated, who seems elsewhere within the movie.
Requested by The Hollywood Reporter on the Los Angeles premiere of his new movie The Boys within the Boat on Monday if that look was a one-time factor or opened the door to extra Batman work, Clooney laughed and confirmed, “Oh yeah. In some way there weren’t a variety of requests for me to reprise my position as Batman, I don’t know why.”
THR reported on the time that Warner Bros. and the workforce behind The Flash saved Clooney’s look within the movie secret for shut to 6 months, as DC heads James Gunn and Peter Safran reached out to Clooney’s agent at CAA, Bryan Lourd, and confirmed him a lower of the largely completed movie; Lourd then confirmed it to the star, who favored it and agreed to participate in a cameo. Gunn has additionally beforehand tweeted that Clooney is “completely not” the DCU’s new Batman as he and Safran revamp the comedian ebook universe.
Following the superhero position, Clooney has shifted to director mode, helming The Boys within the Boat, which tells the inspirational true story of the 1936 College of Washington rowing workforce that competed for gold on the Summer time Olympics in Berlin. The movie hits theaters on Dec. 25.
