This is turning into the summer of Glen Powell ...
if not the year of Glen Powell , in general. The Top Gun: Maverick co-star has a new documentary out about the Blue Angels , as well as the critically acclaimed rom-com Hit Man , coming to Netflix but also in select theaters. In July, Powell will join Daisy Edgar-Jones in a spiritual continuation of Twisters .
And after finally catching up with Powell and Sydney Sweeney in the charming Anyone But You , I’m basically ready to admit that Powell can just about do anything, and make it work in Hollywood. Except maybe Batman. Now, I’m not trying to force a superhero role on every hot young actor.
Despite the fact that I think the comic-book genre is poised for a roaring return – both for Marvel and DC – the industry still needs plenty of actors who are willing to do their own thing, and provide alternate forms of programming. However, in a recent interview with GQ , Glen Powell brought up the idea of possibly playing Batman on his own, telling the magazine: I was always a Batman guy. I would have a wild take on Batman.
It definitely would not be like a Matt Reeves tone – it’d probably be closer to Keaton. It would have to be. Glen Powell is a fine actor, but he plays a certain type: confident, arrogant, cocky, charming.
.. not exactly dark and brooding, like Batman.
And even while Powell couches it to say that he’d prefer to do something along the lines of Michael Keaton in the Tim Burton Batman movies, that role was .