Preview: Gerry Anderson (sorta)

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Running Out Of Batman Villains

SPEAKER_01 0:00

A quick thought. Lower level, they've already burned through all of the top-tier Batman villains. It's Batman 4, it's Batman 5. Who are they doing and who are they casting as those roles circa 1995?

SPEAKER_00 0:13

Phil Hartman, obviously, as Toy Man, and then uh he had to bow out uh uh due to his untimely demise. And then uh and then that's when you see John Levitt step in as the the the puppeteer for Scarface. It was a late season replacement. He was already uh alongside Andy Dick as the Riddler.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

Oh, Andy Dick can be the Matt Hatter? Oh shit!

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Yeah! Okay.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

That's a pretty good one, I think.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

That's pretty

NewsRadio Cast As Gotham Rogues

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good.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

Do we just cast the cast of uh News radio? News radio as Batman villains and who they would be. You gotta choose from that oofer of actors, right?

SPEAKER_00 0:46

So you got Steven Root as Commissioner Gordon, obviously.

SPEAKER_01 0:49

Well, no, no, they all have to be Batman villains.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

Oh, just villains.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

Just villains.

SPEAKER_00 0:53

Okay. I I we see the Bathead are sort of more small and squatty, but that's just because of the.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

I don't think of Andy Dick as a big guy. Besides, he's gonna be sitting down the whole time.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

That's true. Alongside him, you have Phil Hartman as Mr. Zaz. No, uh you think you've got Phil Hartman's head shaved, not just cutting in his in his skin on every every inch of

Who Can Play The Clock King

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his body. What about a clock man for uh the The Clock King? The clock king. Tempest fugit? Yeah, I mean I can also make an argument for Eddie Dick playing that. No, no, I couldn't. His whole thing is being organized and rational.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

So Yeah, I mean imagine Phil Hartman, I could see it. Phil Hartman, his role in Soy Mared and Axe Murderer. Okay. But translated over into Clock King.

SPEAKER_00 1:37

Interesting.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

Now who would Dave Foley play?

SPEAKER_00 1:39

Well, Dave Foley would have to play The Toy Toy? Well, Toy Man's a Superman villain, so I don't really I don't think that works, but see. Dave Foley would play Joe Rogan would play Killer Croc, let's be honest.

SPEAKER_01 1:51

I guess so.

SPEAKER_00 1:51

It's either that or Bane.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

What if Joe Rogan was Zaz?

SPEAKER_00 1:55

Well, he does shave his head now. You had a good point.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

He has the kind of the athletic body at the time, and this is before he's gone completely crazy.

Canon Questions And New Villains

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Well, and then you've got Vicky Lewis, who plays Beth. She could very easily play Poison Ivy.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

Because are we keeping the canon bat universe actors or are we recasting all of them?

SPEAKER_00 2:12

Well, Poison Ivy was only in the um In the fourth one, right? Yeah, but we're we're saying that Tim Burton kept going. Right.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:19

So I mean, yeah, yeah. Well, he's not coming back.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

Well, who's more a tyranny then?

SPEAKER_00 2:25

Well, they've already done Vicky Vale, so that's hard to do. And it has to be a villain?

SPEAKER_01 2:30

It's gotta be a villain.

SPEAKER_00 2:31

Fuck. Well, she'd make a lousy Harley Quinn.

SPEAKER_01 2:35

Uh Tali Al Ghoul? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:38

Okay, then Steven Root bross Al Ghoul, because that's fucking. Oh yes! Great character actor Steven Root, muse of the Cohen brothers. He essentially would be kind of playing a more competent version of his character in No Country for Old Men. Yeah. Gets killed.

SPEAKER_01 2:55

You're obviously doing something different with these characters, so you know, he's kind of the man behind the scenes.

SPEAKER_00 3:01

So he's Ros El Ghoul.

Calendar Man And Final Picks

SPEAKER_00 3:03

Dave Foley would be more like Calendar Man?

SPEAKER_01 3:06

Yeah. Okay. Good. We were both thinking the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 3:12

Oh no. Oh, we both taught a calendar man at the same time. Nobody should know who calendar man is. Simple enough.