DBWI: Alec Baldwin Doesn't Play Batman

[Amadeus]

Yeah, that was pretty awesome! It did also serve to provude new comic ideas

I know Frank Miller was really impressed by Baldwin's performance since it was based in part on Batman: Year One. Baldwin took the whole idea of clueless playboy by day, vigilante by night and ran with it. So when Miller continued his Batman stories after 1989, it was clearly influenced by Baldwin.

So if Keaton (the runner up) had been cast, Miller's later Batman comics might have suffered.

 

[CountDVB]

I know Frank Miller was really impressed by Baldwin's performance since it was based in part on Batman: Year One. Baldwin took the whole idea of clueless playboy by day, vigilante by night and ran with it. So when Miller continued his Batman stories after 1989, it was clearly influenced by Baldwin.

So if Keaton (the runner up) had been cast, Miller's later Batman comics might have suffered.

Yeah and that was the case until Batman The Animated Series which had a mildly eccentric but capable Bruce Wayne with the darker Batman

 

[Amadeus]

Yeah and that was the case until Batman The Animated Series which had a mildly eccentric but capable Bruce Wayne with the darker Batman

As Bruce Wayne, Baldwin chose to emphasize the charm while the Animated Series tried to keep things darker on the whole. So they toned down Wayne's lighter side which Baldwin showed in his movies. Though I think Kevin Conroy knocked it out of the park as both Wayne and Batman.

Watching Keaton in interviews and in other films, he comes across as kind of awkward and weird. Not in a bad way, he's a riveting performer. But there's an "off" quality to him that's very different from Baldwin. Had he choose to portray Wayne this way, would this be the modern standard? And would he have stayed on for the entire franchise, which Baldwin refused to do?

 

[CountDVB]

As Bruce Wayne, Baldwin chose to emphasize the charm while the Animated Series tried to keep things darker on the whole. So they toned down Wayne's lighter side which Baldwin showed in his movies. Though I think Kevin Conroy knocked it out of the park as both Wayne and Batman.

Watching Keaton in interviews and in other films, he comes across as kind of awkward and weird. Not in a bad way, he's a riveting performer. But there's an "off" quality to him that's very different from Baldwin. Had he choose to portray Wayne this way, would this be the modern standard? And would he have stayed on for the entire franchise, which Baldwin refused to do?

He probably would've left too, but I get the feeling that he would not be as big as Baldwin was as Batman. He definitely can do more actiony stuff well.

Also, according to Baldwin, being Batman actually had him re-examine his life and actually try and be more moral

 

[Amadeus]

He probably would've left too, but I get the feeling that he would not be as big as Baldwin was as Batman. He definitely can do more actiony stuff well.

Also, according to Baldwin, being Batman actually had him re-examine his life and actually try and be more moral

I remember reading that in his autobiography. He and Kim Basinger, who met on the set of Batman, were heading for divorce in the 1990s but they stayed together in the end.

After quitting Batman Baldwin remained a high profile actor, though he's also dedicated his time to political causes. This probably helped him land the role of President Al Gore in the HBO movie, Crisis, about the 9/11 attacks.

 

[CountDVB]

I remember reading that in his autobiography. He and Kim Basinger, who met on the set of Batman, were heading for divorce in the 1990s but they stayed together in the end.

After quitting Batman Baldwin remained a high profile actor, though he's also dedicated his time to political causes. This probably helped him land the role of President Al Gore in the HBO movie, Crisis, about the 9/11 attacks.

Yeah, which led to a fun what-if of Bruce Wayne becoming President after retiring as Batman? But yeah, Baldwin did good as Al Gore, who himself was a pretty good President. While some Dems still did not approve of him getting invovled in Iraq, he did get rid of the 9/11 master minds, made a very strong peace and rebuilding relations with Iran soon after (which is probably why we were probably gonna get into Iraq anyway and that came out all right.)

 

[Amadeus]

Yeah, which led to a fun what-if of Bruce Wayne becoming President after retiring as Batman? But yeah, Baldwin did good as Al Gore, who himself was a pretty good President. While some Dems still did not approve of him getting invovled in Iraq, he did get rid of the 9/11 master minds, made a very strong peace and rebuilding relations with Iran soon after (which is probably why we were probably gonna get into Iraq anyway and that came out all right.)

Gore was very successful in foreign policy. Unfortunately that wasn't enough to save him from defeat at the hands of John McCain in 2004.

Back to Batman - wasn't there a storyline where Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne run for President against each other?

 

[CountDVB]

Gore was very successful in foreign policy. Unfortunately that wasn't enough to save him from defeat at the hands of John McCain in 2004.

Back to Batman - wasn't there a storyline where Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne run for President against each other?

Yeah, though McCain would spell the end of the GOP because of the Recession and their mishandling of it (2004-2012), though it did result in a lot of reforms and political shakeups

And speaking of, that was a proposed idea, but they decided not to since they could not justify how it’d work in story.

It was referenced when a character of Baldwin ran against one of Reeves in a show or film they did