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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 19: Brandon Sklenar attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Paramount+ Series “1923” Season 2 on February 19, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth\/WireImage)<\/p>\n
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Who the heck is Brandon Sklenar? If you\u2019ve been surfing around comic book Twitter at all the past few weeks, you\u2019ll find his name coming up over and over again in relation to a very specific part. And it seems possible that James Gunn is actually considering him for it.<\/a><\/p>\n The role is DCU Batman, the yet-to-be cast important role in James Gunn\u2019s new universe. Possibly the most important, depending on where you come down in the great Superman vs. Batman debate. And before you say it, no, we are past the point where Robert Pattinson\u2019s \u2018The Batman\u2019 Batman is ever going to come to the DCU.<\/p>\n Sklenar has been fancast as Bruce Wayne for months, albeit I\u2019m not exactly sure where all this started. There\u2019s been a raging debate among fans whether he\u2019d be good or bad for the role. Sklenar himself is not quiet about it, and has made it clear his ultimate fantasy is to, in fact, be Batman, similar to what we\u2019ve heard from Reacher\u2019s Alan Ritchson.<\/p>\n Fancasting does not tend to work out for almost any role, especially superhero projects, but in the DCU? Things feel a bit different. The most prominent example of this was Aaron Pierre making a splash in his Netflix movie Rebel Ridge, fans saying he\u2019d be a great John Stewart Green Lantern, and a month later, he was.<\/p>\n In a recent Peacemaker podcast, James Gunn made some eyebrows raise when he revealed he was watching 1923, the Paramount Plus Taylor Sheridan series, a highly-scored prequel to Yellowstone starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. However, it also stars none other than Brandon Sklenar, who shows up in every episode playing Spencer Dutton.<\/p>\n This new podcast bit is not actually new news, given that it was recorded a long while ago, and back in June, Gunn said that Sklenar was \u201cgreat\u201d in 1923, but it\u2019s a reminder that he\u2019s on Gunn\u2019s radar. Gunn said specifically he watched Milly Alcock in House of the Dragon which eventually led to her series of auditions where she ultimately got the part. It\u2019s of course not uncommon to like people in something and then have then come in, or cast them, but\u2026that may be what\u2019s happening with Sklenar here, though Gunn has recently indicated the movie is not in the casting phase yet.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know what to make of Sklenar or all this hype about him. I haven\u2019t seen 1923, admittedly, but I did watch the rather good horror movie Drop, where he co-starred opposite The White Lotus\u2019 Meghann Fahy (who ironically starred with Milly Alcock in Sirens; the connections begin to form!). He was good, but I still don\u2019t quite get the intense fervor around him specifically when it comes to this role. I think some of the best castings are more obscure and less predictable like say, Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne, and we know how that worked out. We\u2019ll see if Gunn agrees with the fancast again in the future.<\/p>\n Follow me <\/strong>on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong><\/a> and <\/strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Pick up my sci-fi novels the <\/strong>Herokiller series<\/strong><\/a> and <\/strong>The Earthborn Trilogy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n