It’s hard to believe that a decade has already flown by since Armie Hammer was cast as Batman in George Miller’s ill-fated Justice League Mortal.
It’s also quite surprising that in the time since Warner Bros. made
their first major attempt at bringing DC’s premier superhero team to the
silver screen (it was ultimately killed by the writers’ strike, among
other factors).
That said, we can’t help but revisit the ongoing saga involving him & Green Lantern Corps,
a project many fans are hoping will redeem the character.
Truth be told, Hammer was never actually involved in the long gestating
film, but a beast was created when DC head honcho Geoff Johns followed
the actor on Twitter, thus causing folks to speculate & wish.
Still, it didn’t help that Hammer played along, effectively trolling fans for some time before growing tired of it
upon his realization that he was feeding the monster. With that, we
thought this had been wrapped up, but then Dwayne Johnson, Black Adam
himself, fanned the flames when he told us exclusively that he’d like to see Hammer play opposite as him in the role of Shazam.
While
that doesn’t seem likely to pan out because Hammer seemingly has no
familiarity with Billy Batson, Screen Rant couldn’t help but ask him to
make a choice in a recent interview, to which the actor replied:
“What an embarrassment of riches to have all of these choices. The funny
thing is, is nobody has ever come to me an been like… My agent has
never called and said, ‘Armie, Warner Bros, has been talking to me.
There’s really interested in you. This whole thing.’ Never. In fact,
after… there was like a… When the Green Lantern stuff first kind of
started, which I think is Geoff Johns fault, because he like followed me
on Twitter or something, and everybody was like what does that mean?!
So uh… how did it happen, Um, I called my agent, after it had been going
on for like a week or two, it had been going on for a little bit, I
called my agent, I was like, ‘Man, have you heard anything from like
D.C. or anything?’ And he was like, ‘No.’ I was like, ‘nothing?’ He was
like, ‘No.’ I was like, ‘Not one thing?,’ and he was like, ‘No. Why?’ I
was like, ‘nothing about… Green Lantern?,’ and he was like, ‘No,
nothing,’ and I was like, alright. That’s it, that’s the end of it.”
Regardless of whether or not Hammer sits out both Green Lantern Corps and Shazam, we certainly hope that he seriously considers the genre because, as fans of it, we’d love to have him.