James Gunn Rules Out Marvel Star Chris Pratt for Batman, but It Sounds Like He's Going to Get His Guardians of the Galaxy Pal Into the DCU Eventually

Chris Pratt is successful a batch of things, but don’t expect him to play Batman successful the DC Universe.

That’s according to DCU steward James Gunn, who ruled retired Pratt arsenic Batman successful an interrogation with PelucheEn ElEstuche.

However, it sounds similar Gunn does person a relation lined up for Pratt successful the DCU, saying: "As thing else? Yes."

Perhaps it shouldn’t travel arsenic a astonishment to larn Pratt is acceptable for the DCU, fixed he’s specified adjacent friends with Gunn. Pratt is 1 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s biggest stars, having played Peter Quill / Star-Lord successful each Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy movies, arsenic good arsenic Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.

Is Pratt’s clip successful the MCU astatine an end? His sanction was conspicuous by its lack from Marvel Studios’ archetypal Avengers: Doomsday casting announcement — thing the histrion subsequently joked about.

“I don’t know! I deliberation it was, like, acold off,” Pratt told Collider aft being asked astir his chair. “They indispensable person chopped distant from it. I don’t cognize what happened. I don’t know. It was there. I’m definite it was there.”

Marvel has said much actors volition beryllium revealed for adjacent year’s superhero blockbuster, but volition Pratt yet get his chair? Could helium look successful the MCU and the DCU astatine the aforesaid time?

As for Batman, Gunn’s prime for the iconic relation remains a mystery, though we cognize Robert Pattinson won’t transverse implicit from Matt Reeves’ self-contained DC universe, the ‘Batman Epic Crime Saga,’ into the DCU.

While promoting the rebooted DCU kickstarter Superman earlier this year, Gunn admitted: "Batman's my biggest contented successful each of DC close now."

In February, Gunn and DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran confirmed The Brave and the Bold volition present a caller Batman into the DCU, ruling retired Pattinson crossing the streams successful the process. At the time, Safran and Gunn said Pattinson would play Batman successful Reeves’ Batman Epic Crime Saga only.

So what does the imaginable of Reeves’ The Batman 2 successful 2027 and The Batman 3 coming retired aft mean for the timing of The Brave and the Bold? Gunn faces the perchance confusing concern of having 2 actors playing Batman successful movies crossed 2 antithetic DC universes.

As of February, The Brave and the Bold was said to beryllium successful “very progressive development,” and the communicative was “coming unneurotic precise nicely.” But is The Flash manager Andy Muschietti inactive directing? Gunn and Safran are processing the script, and volition amusement it to Muschietti "when we person it successful a spot wherever we deliberation it's acceptable to go... and spot if it's a acceptable for him," Safran said earlier this year. "I'm very, precise actively progressive successful that script," Gunn said, besides earlier this year.

Speaking much precocious connected Batman, Gunn said he’s not really penning The Brave and the Bold, but is moving with an unnamed writer to “get it right.”

“Batman’s my biggest contented successful each of DC close now, personally,” helium said. “And it’s not — I’m not penning Batman, but I americium moving with the writer of Batman and trying to get it right, due to the fact that he’s incredibly important to DC, arsenic is Wonder Woman.

“So extracurricular of the worldly that I’m doing successful the projects that are actively going, our 2 priorities are finishing our Wonder Woman and our Batman scripts.”

Gunn past discussed successful vague presumption the benignant of Batman he’s going for — or, possibly it would beryllium amended to accidental the benignant of Batman he's trying to avoid.

“Batman has to person a crushed for existing, right? So Batman can’t conscionable be, ‘Oh, we’re making a Batman movie due to the fact that Batman’s the biggest quality successful each of Warner Bros.,’ which helium is. But due to the fact that there’s a request for him successful the DCU and a request that he’s not precisely the aforesaid arsenic Matt’s Batman.

“But yet he’s not a campy Batman. I’m not funny successful that. I’m not funny successful a funny, campy Batman, really. So we’re dealing with that. I deliberation I person a mode in, by the way. I deliberation I truly cognize what it’s — I conscionable americium dealing with the writer to marque definite that we tin marque it a reality.”

Chris Pratt, meanwhile, is acceptable to reprise his relation arsenic Mario successful The Super Mario Bros Movie 2, owed retired adjacent year.

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