Alec Baldwin har bland annat medverkat i filmer som The Departed, Glengarry Glen Ross, Gränsen, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, The Aviator, Pearl Harbor, The Shadow, Notting Hill, Skenet bedrar samt Team America vilket naturligtvis gör honom till en av tidernas största skådespelare. Nu har denne gigant skrivit på för att lira rollen som Batmans pappa (Thomas Wayne) i Baksmällan-regissören Todd Phillips kommande Joker-film med Joaquin Phoenix i huvudrollen som storskurken.
"While Warner Bros has not confirmed what role, buzz is that Baldwin is poised play the role of Thomas Wayne, who in DC canon is Bruce Wayne/Batman's father. Thomas Wayne was first introduced in Detective Comics #33 (Nov. 1939) and he is respected physician and philanthropist in Gotham City. Wayne and his wife are murdered exiting the theater, an incident which young Bruce witnesses. That becomes his m.o. for ultimately becoming a vigilante. In the early comics, Wayne's murderer is mugger/hitman Joe Chill, but starting with the first Tim Burton 1989 Batman movie, it's the Joker who is the culprit. Baldwin joins a growing cast that includes Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, Robert De Niro, Frances Conroy, Marc Maron, and Zazie Beetz as Sophie Dumond. As has been previously reported, Phillips' take on the famed DC character will possess a grittier, '80s sensibility." Länk
Baldwin är klockren, anser vi. Med fin mustasch blir han en perfekt Tompa Wayne, eller hur?