{"id":47189,"date":"2013-08-04T11:07:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T10:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=47189"},"modified":"2013-08-04T11:07:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T10:07:39","slug":"superman-vs-batman-joe-manganiello-up-for-batman-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/superman-vs-batman-joe-manganiello-up-for-batman-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman vs Batman: Joe Manganiello up for Batman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_47190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47190\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Superman-versus-Batman-Joe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-47190\" alt=\"Joe Manganiello as Alcide in True Blood\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Superman-versus-Batman-Joe-616x410.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"410\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Manganiello as Alcide in True Blood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Warner Bros are not only looking for an older Batman in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/46435\/man-of-steel-2-will-be-superman-vs-batman\/\"><em>Superman Versus Batman<\/em><\/a> movie &#x2013; all the better to capture the feel of Frank Miller&#x2019;s The Dark Knight Returns &#x2013; but according to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/man-steel-2s-batman-actors-598856\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>, the studio already has a shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>The names reported to be in the running for the older and more determined Dark Knight detective are <em>Sin City<\/em> star&#xA0;Josh Brolin,&#xA0;Ryan Gosling, <em>True Blood<\/em>&#x2018;s&#xA0;Joe Manganiello (who was also a runner for <em>Man Of Steel<\/em>), <em>The Hobbit<\/em>&#x2018;s&#xA0;Richard Armitage, <em>Pacific Rim<\/em>&#x2018;s&#xA0;Max Martini, and <em>Watchmen<\/em>&#x2018;s&#xA0;Matthew Goode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man Of Steel is still in cinemas, and you can&#xA0;<a title=\"TDKR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Batman-Dark-Knight-Returns-TP\/dp\/1563893428\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1374484034&sr=8-2&keywords=the+dark+knight+returns&tag=scifinowmag-21\">buy&#xA0;<em>The Dark Knight Returns<\/em>&#xA0;for &#xA3;14.99 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-47189-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T6DJcgm3wNY&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T6DJcgm3wNY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T6DJcgm3wNY<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Brolin, Richard Armitage, Joe Manganiello and more up for Batman role in Man Of Steel 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":47190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[1953,3336,90],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Superman-versus-Batman-Joe.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}