New fan art reimagines every actor who has played Batman as a live-action version of The Joker. With the latest addition of Robert Pattinson as The Caped Crusader in Matt Reeves' The Batman, the actor joins the ever-expansive DC Universe. His take on Batman is set apart from the Extended Universe, which sees Ben Affleck don the iconic character. The actor will reprise his role in 2023's The Flash, alongside Michael Keaton, who will be playing the character for the first time in over thirty years.
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Over the years, nearly every live-action version of Batman has had to battle a version of The Joker. Barry Keoghan was introduced as The Clown Prince of Crime in a brief scene near the end of The Batman, while Affleck recently shared the screen with Jared Leto's Joker in Zack Snyder's Justice League. But one of the most iconic takes on the character was Jack Nicholson's in Tim Burton's Batman, starring Michael Keaton. However, what would have happened if all the Batman actors had been cast in the Joker role? One curious and talented fan just found out.
This is what artist Marc Rienzo has imagined by posting pictures of every live-action Batman actor digitally altered to become The Joker. Actors Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, and Robert Pattinson have now been reinterpreted as variants of The Clown Prince of Crime. It's as if Bruce Wayne fell into a vat of acid and became The Joker instead of falling into a Batcave to become The Caped Crusader, and the results are chilling. Check out the art below:
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It's interesting to see what the actors would look like if they played The Joker, especially Pattinson, who has the most frightening look. Pattinson's Batman had an interesting scene with Keoghan's Joker, but the sequence was ultimately cut from the theatrical film and released on YouTube shortly after the movie was released. However, with Rienzo flipping the roles and portraying Pattinson as Joker, one would wonder what it would be like had he played the twisted clown instead of Batman, putting Keoghan in the role of The Caped Crusader.
These possibilities are imagined frighteningly through Rienzo's art, which accurately portrays how the actors who played Batman could've interpreted The Joker. And if this art somewhat inspires Warner Bros to greenlight a film imagining Bruce Wayne as The Joker, it would undoubtedly be an exciting reinterpretation. And with the multiverse ready to be cracked wide open with The Flash, the possibilities of having Joker variants are now endless.