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On Jun 21, 2025 at 10:32:49 PM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb"
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

> On 6/21/2025 12:34 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>  Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> 
>>> Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (4K disc) 2023 movie set in the DCEU
>>>  starring Jason Momoa as Lobo, I mean Aquaman.  Aquaman drives around on
>>>  his motorcycle and does the haka dance.  Are we sure he's not playing
>>>  Lobo?  Anyway, Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) returns to try and
>>>  kill Aquaman which forces Lobo, I mean Aquaman to team up with his half
>>>  brother Orm (Patrick Wilson) to save the day.  The movie has issues, but
>>>  it's watchable.  It's just annoying going in and being aware of all the
>>>  behind the scenes issues.  For example, the movie originally had Batman,
>>>  all the scenes were filmed, then they decided to edit him out of the
>>>  movie.  And as far as I can tell, they replaced Batman with a CGI
>>>  octopus.  And I just noticed WB released 4 DCEU movies in the same year,
>>>  then had the nerve to complain about low box office returns.
>> 
>>  Who played the Batman?
>>  
> It's unclear.  Both Keaton and Affleck are referenced as filming scenes. 
>   This is part of the behind the scenes nonsense that was taking place 
> where WB couldn't make up their mind if they wanted to go forward with 
> Keaton or Affleck.  They filmed an entire Batgirl movie using Keaton, 
> then scrapped it.  My guess is it would have been Keaton.  Don't even 
> ask about the ending of The Flash and how that affects who would be 
> Batman going forward.  The whole thing was a mess being played out in 
> front of the audience.  Even now, the Batman shuffle is still having 
> ripple affects with it being up in the air if Robert Pattinson's Batman 
> will be the new Batman in Gunn's rebooted universe or not.  As of now, 
> it's not Pattinson, but Gunn has also said he's open to the idea.

And at the same time, aren't they going forward with another standalone Batman
movie with Pattinson?