Dave Bautista has clarified on social media in the last few years that one of his dream film roles is the villain Batman, Bane, but the battle icon turned into an action movie star is not just talking. During an appearance at JusticeCon (via Collider) to promote her lead role in Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead,” Bautista revealed that she had a meeting with Warner Bros. and DC Films to demand more or less the role of Bane whenever the studios decide to revive the villainous character on the big screen.
“I want to play Bane so badly that I went to Warner Bros., I had a date with them, I had a date with DC, I walked in the door and I said, ‘I want to play Bane,'” Bautista said. “I’m not kidding. They were kind of like that.” “Wow, we don’t even throw Bane.
The Baptist may have to wait a while before Warner Bros. to decide to bring Bane back to the big screen. The character was famously played by Tom Hardy in Christopher Nolan’s 2012 comic tent “The Dark Knight Rises” and is a show that continues to attract headlines all these years later (see Nolan saying last year that critics didn’t appreciated enough Hardy’s performance). Warner Bros. would return. Bane with Hardy’s work lingering in the minds of moviegoers? There was a 15-year gap between Robert Swenson playing Bane in “Batman & Robin” and Hardy playing Bane in “The Dark Knight Rises.”
Since Warner Bros. and DC Films are about to embrace the multiverse, it is entirely possible that Bautista will have the chance to play Bane sooner rather than later. The upcoming “Flash” movie will play two versions of Batman, one starring Michael Keaton and the other by Ben Affleck. There is also the release of Robert Pattinson’s “The Batman” in March 2022 from director Matt Reeves. The director brings new iterations of Penguin (Colin Farrell), Catwoman (Zoe Kravitz) and Riddler (Paul Dano) to the screen, which certainly leaves a door open for Bane to appear. Bautista certainly hopes for that.
Next to Bautista is “Army of the Dead,” Zack Snyder’s Netflix zombie tent. The film hits the streaming platform on May 22nd.
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