I take it Alfred will a bit of an edge with Irons on him.

Gonna have to see how that Lex casting will work out.

Not sure what to think of this yet.

Scar from the Lion King is Alfred, hmmm.

Jessie Eisenberg playing a wealthy young genius? Is Lex going to be like Mark Zuckerberg but evil?

Eisenberg can certainly pull off smug and arrogant.

even though hes like the nicest guy in real life. good actor

I like the Eisenberg casting.

Unsure about it, so I shall see. I would have preferred an older Luthor, but really I will just settle for a good movie Luthor.

Both talented actors so that bodes well. Not typical choices but what casting has?

Love irons so that could be amazing. Would rather have seen him play Luthor.

I still dream of Kevin spacey as Luthor. That would be amazing. No way to fuck that hat up.

The 'Returns/quasi-Donner universe is long done so Spacey can't return, but I would have loved him as 'CEO Lex' rather than 'Evil Housing Guy Lex'.

Heisenberg, not Eisenberg.

I copy-pasted, sorry.

Not sure how reliable this source is, but they're saying Christopher Nolan is out as producer of BvS, and Geoff Johns is taking over.

http://movies.cosmicbooknews.com/con...rman-nolan-out

I really don't know what to make of this. On the one hand, removing Nolan means they'll be stepping further out of the shadow of the Dark Knight movies, and hopefully they won't have the same oppressively dark and moody tone that hurt Man of Steel so severely. On the other hand, Nolan tends to make really good movies, and the last major flick that Johns had a hand in was Green Lantern, which went over like a wet fart in church. So.......yeah.

If the DC movie-verse is to grow this is probably for best, but I don't know about Johns pulling some of the strings. So long as Snyder and Goyer have their act together.

Nolan didn't have much, if anything to do with MoS. Him leaving makes little difference. I am just hoping that the Argo writer who was brought in to clean the script up does a bang up job, and that the movie is better paced and not all over the place like MoS.

Also hoping the push back means WB realized the script needs more fine tuning and may be a bit overstuffed if all these rumors we hear are true, and decide to tone it down a bit and make this a better film than the first.

That being said, I like the recent castings. Irons as Alfred is intriguing. He's kind of a grandiose choice, but he's still a fine actor. Just hope he's given enough to work with that he can actually stand out the way his predecessors have in the role.

Eisenberg is a really interesting choice. I hope Lex is closer in relation to the animated counterparts rather the film versions. Animated Lex is bad ass.

The one thing I hope they manage to bring to the screen is that witty back and forth Superman and Batman have in Public enemies /worlds finest its not over the top funny like Avengers or Iron Man but its no less fun to hear them and see how they play off one another. Supes has GOT to be more optimistic in MoS 2 in order for that to happen.

Well even if they wanted to go with the classic light/dark dynamic, that would have to be after they're friends (>> Justice League movie). It seems like they're going with a young man/old dog thing here.

You don't think they could even use the " I kinda hate that guy but I think respect him" dynamic from the worlds finest cartoon?

Well that's classic buddy cop movie stuff anyway, but even the DCAU movie built on the contrast of their styles that only really worked because of the benefit of both of them having their own shows running concurrently. We don't even know Batfleck yet, and the tricky bit here is Superman's not that much lighter than Batman given MoS' direction.

Batfleck would have to be the most depressing fucker ever to translate the contrast from the comics/cartoon, or Clark would need to be written way lighter.

Speaking of Ben I'm still waiting for a friend to prove to me that Affleck can do a decent job as Batman, As Bruce Wayne Ive every confidence that Affleck can play a rich,cocky asshole.

Why is the burden on him to prove that? lol

Ben's a good actor who already knows Batman in and out. There's a good chance he knows what he's doing. He wouldn't so eagerly embarrass himself.

Because he has a massive man crush on Affleck and can't understand why I prefer Ben behind the camera rather than in front(that said I did enjoy The Town)

But he's no Matt Damon (obligatory joke you understand)

Think Affleck will shine, depending on what he's given to work with. He's got the looks, got the build and has the ability. So long as the character is written/presented well, Affleck will do fine.

Gili

Yeah, yeah.

Daredevil

Not even his fault.

I mean, what would be his win/loss ratio?

where did the "Ben Affleck is a good actor" rumor start?

Pearl Harbor

Paycheck

Surviving Christmas

Jersey Girl

I could keep going to.

To where?

To the Wonder!

Probably with Argo.

I liked him in Dogma. Though he's always good when he has Damon to play off of.

The whole "person X is only capable of shittiness because they were a part of these movies" is a really fantastic way to spot people who don't really bother thinking about how the movie business works.

He was good in a lot of movies:

Chasing Amy, Dogma, The Town, Argo, Boiler Room, Smokin' Aces,

to name a few

gigli :shifty:

No one said that.

Like 83 people are saying just that.