John Cleese in DCEU

Who could he be playing?

Justice League Origin
The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: The Black Mirror (Noir)

Mxy?

what was it people were saying? Wintergreen?

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>John Cleese
weird stack of comics.He may have a role, but I think he is just reading some of them. none of these have any characters that relate besides batman and alfred.

Whenever I'm having a picture taken I also have stuff I'm reading placed seemingly nonchalantly with the spines faced towards the camera

HE'S BULLOCK!!

He would make a great Alfred, now I think about it. Movie Alfred really needs to take the piss out of Bruce more than he does.

Robbie Rotten

Isn't he a lil old for Bullock?

Maybe he'll just be a nameless Mayor of Gotham.

I'm pretty sure he wrote a Superman comic.

I think he'll be playing the wizard, Shazam.

Considering how hard they're pushing the "it has a lighter tone" meme, I hope whatever role it is plays to his comedic strengths. He'd be an alright kent nelson

>Putting on lipstick
>Dark knight returns has Joker wearing lipstick


I think it's old Joker; and MOM'S GONNA FREAK is going to be Jason. (hence the scars)

>that smile and lipstick
>The Dark Knights Returns

Well shit I might actually watch whatever he's in if he's Old Man Joker.

>I bring the ruckus to Aquaman

Is the Joker prevalent in JL Origins or Batman noir?

>the Leto is Jason meme again

As impossible as that is, Cleese as an old Joker would be beyond awesome.

Got to be Alfred Pennyworth!

Joker is in Black mirror missing his Batman (Bruce is missing), that Batman noir is just a black and white version of black mirror.

Origins; no but justice league deals with Steppenwolf and Darkseids forces; origins would be a good starting point for john cleese to get a basic grasp of who Darkseid is.

If it's true he is, Highfather.

Alfred's father Jarvis

He'd make a great Alfred, but the picture makes me think Joker.

>tfw he's both.

What if Three Jokers?
Cleese is Silver Age Joker
Leto is Modern Age Joker
But who is Golden Age Joker?

Shazam maybe?

Billy Wintergreen

Yeah, that might be the only way to legit make everyone happy.

I mean, just numbers alone, Old-Bruce + Letto Joker/Harley didn't make much sense.

G. Gordon Godfrey

Ah, shit. Wait. 3 Jokers came from Johns who now has a lot of say in the movie universe.

This could actually be a thing aside from the fact that the comics version seems so fucking stupid and putting cosmic/multiverse into characters who don't need it and the movie version would obviously be a generational thing.

Actually, Leto is the same age as Affleck. I agree it looks way younger, but I like my Joker ageless-looking.

Prankster

Granny Goodness

The Gentleman Ghost.

Actually a year older.

Anyone else think the whole three jokers thing is an elephant in the ass (was gonna say room but autocorrect had better ideas) that DC fans don't talk about?

I think most readers are simply waiting for further development before judging. I am, for one.

I like it

But then I've been reading DC for so long that I welcome multiverse shit and other time altering shenanigans.

Okay, but that's kind of besides the point if they are also intentionally aging Affleck up to play middle aged Bruce.

I dunno, thinking about the DC Cinematic Universe and the parts they've already hardcoded into it, there could be some interesting story opportunities not immediately available in the comics.

Just looking at the Trinity, you now have a relatively new Superman, a past-his-prime Batman, and ageless Wonder Woman. The big three don't need to be synchronized because you don't need them to be able to show up in one another's books every months.

Just look at Batman. This set up allows you to have "old-days" stories set in Gotham without "why not just call Superman?" plot holes while letting "modern" Bruce be JLA/Big Picture Bruce (which is kind of Morrison's take on him if you just read his books and forget the rest of the Bat-Line during his run).

There are some options is all I'm saying.

Personally, even though BvS was hot garbage, I *really* enjoyed the twist of Lois Lane and Superman knowing one another from day one and Lois being the one to set up the "glasses and hair" Clark Kent persona/identity.

It gives Lois more agency/involvement in the mythos even if they are not married romantically involved long term or short term.

It gets rid of the goofy "why do Superman and Clark Kent have all the same friends?" quirk that gets in the way of Luthor's "Why would Superman have a secret identity" take from Byrne (which is the most elegant disposal of the secret identity question... the whole point of Superman is that he doesn't wear a mask. Why would people assume,e some random guy was Superman because he kinda looks like him. If my neighbor looks a bit like Barrack Obama, I assume it's a coincidence.)

It's also a twist on the Silver Age formula of Lois Lane trying to constantly expose Superman and Clark Kent if instead she's actively trying to prevent others from uncovering the truth...

Execution was garbage, but good idea.

>Okay, but that's kind of besides the point if they are also intentionally aging Affleck up to play middle aged Bruce.

I don't know about aging him up, watching BVS I never actually thought Bruce was more than 45-50, which is Affleck's actual age range.

Affleck isn't portrayed as Batman would look at Affleck's age, though. He's portrayed as an older Batman.

I kind of like an ageless Joker as well, though. Just not Leto's.

It's stupid. It's a stupid solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

If you don't like a take on the Joker, just ignore it and do a different one. That's the whole point of it. Also, Alan Moore already did it in Promethea like a decade ago... maybe more.

And I say this as someone who likes the idea of the Joker being unkillable/immortal as a reason Batman can't just kill him.

But that's kind of irrelevant in an industry where 40-50 year old men are almost always aged down to be 30-somethings.

They made a intentional decision to code Battfleck as "old" while doing no such thing with Letto. No one made them do the whole "Batman has been around for years"/DKR riff. That was a choice. If they wanted Affleck to be regular Batman who just happened to not have an origin story on screen, they could done that just as easily with the same guy.

I always wondered for that one, was he supposed to have done all the stuff the joker did in that timeline, like the Killing Joke and Death in the Family and all that?

it's like in Gotham where Harvey is older than Gordon

it'll be him and Simmons going around solving Se7en style murders in the GCPD spinoff WB will announce the day after Justice League is released

No. The vignette was centered around more of a Bill Finger/Adam West take. The whole point was that Batman's rogues gallery were actor friends hired by Alfred to keep an delusional Bruce Wayne occupied/happy.

I saw him live the other day, I wish I had the chance to ask him.

Stan Lee.

When he started following DCEU people and it was only a rumor that he was cast, a lot of people suggested that he would be playing Wintergreen in 'The Batman'.

Given the books on the picture, that seems less likely now.

THE BRAIN SPECIALIST

Not likely to be anybody, since he's mostly done voice or short roles for advertisements in the past few years, and he's 77.

There's a sort of relationship - you could say DKR is a primer in how Batffleck's character works, that JLO is the origin story they're likely going for (since Johns wrote it and is now a producer on the movie) albeit with some of the character roles swapped around (since we know GL won't be in the movie), and Black Mirror might just be background on what kind of place Gotham is, or maybe how GCPD works. Then again, it's a different Batman - maybe Affleck's contract is already up after JL and they're going to replace him in the role.

However -

>oh my god did you see that Nespresso machine in the picture
>Batman confirmed for coffee

It's clearly a dressing room in a theater somewhere. I wouldn't count on his name even being on the door, let alone everything in there being something to do with him. Who takes their homework to work with them? Honestly, user. Think about it.

Who's he even on tour with right now? What's he doing? What shows has he been on that this might come from?

Who else was on the same night/the night before?

Because whoever else used that dressing room the same time as him is just as likely the owner of those books.

Having said that, if they made Ben Affleck do another humiliating ad as Bruce Wayne only instead of an airline with a pisspoor safety record it was for shitty coffee from a capsule machine, I'd be OK with that.

on an unrelated note, how would the Pennywise portrayal have mapped over the Joker? a good fit? awful?

Dang. That would've added a really chilling element to the whole thing.

This isn't an episode of the mentalist, it's literally a standard PR stunt to post a picture with an glaring easter egg to generate hype and headlines. Combine that with the fact that almost everyone in the dceu, from actors to accounts for the actual movies started following him on social media at the same time(same thing happened with every other recent big hire like deathstroke) and you've got something.

Glorious Godfrey

Yeah, he's just got a new agent.

Do you not understand how that works? If he's gone over to someone who's also running the DCEU stars, of course he's going to follow them on social media. He's given his agents access to that account and they're cross-promoting because it's not a bad idea.

You're making a basic assumption that he's in the DCEU and trying to bend the facts to fit. There are ways to interpret this image that don't fit, you're just not aware of them because you're not prepared to accept that the first thing you thought of was wrong.

You're an idiot. Keep this up and you could be president someday. At this rate, March.

The Prankster

Since Darkseid and Steppenwolf are in the DCEU I could see John Cleese play Gordon Godfrey.

>code

kys u stupid cunt, u are projecting ur perceptions

Alfred, duh.