Despite enjoying his time working with John Cena on The Suicide Squad so much that he wrote an entire spinoff series for HBO Max that’s currently in the midst of production, Dave Bautista still remains James Gunn’s favorite wrestler-turned-actor. The two have clearly formed a close bond, which extended to the actor threatening to quit the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Guardians of the Galaxy if Gunn wasn’t rehired, while he also came very close to re-teaming with the filmmaker on the DCEU’s soft reboot.
Bautista may have signaled his intentions to tackle more challenging roles, and has even dismissed his former in-ring peer Dwayne Johnson as a terrible actor, but the 52 year-old is hardly above lending his name to a blockbuster or two. As well as his recurring role in the MCU, Bautista has also shown up in James Bond movie Spectre, while he’s got Denis Villeneuve’s Dune and Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead arriving this year.
There was a lot of speculation that he could have ended up playing Bane in The Batman, something Bautista even leaned into himself when he admitted he pitched himself for the role, but a new rumor claims that the former WWE star is now in talks to play the muffled mercenary in a future Batman project, although there’s not much more information than that.
So far, we know that The Batman is set to launch a multi-film series, while Michael Keaton of all people is poised to remain the DCEU’s canonical Dark Knight in the main timeline. We’re getting at least two Batman franchises moving forward, so there’s plenty of time and opportunity to cast Bautista as Bane.
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