Grain of salt time again but then I suppose every time we talk about the apparently titled Justice League Mortal it’s always with skepticism.
Contact Music claim that Heroes actor Stephen Tobolowsky is in talks for the part of Alfred Pennyworth in the possibly summer filmed JLA movie, which probably blows out what looked to be a solid rumor of “Batman just in costume” and no Bruce Wayne for George Miller’s pic.
Don’t get me wrong, just because Alfred’s supposedly in the picture, doesn’t necessarily mean Bruce Wayne will make an appearance. But if you look at every Batman film, most of the scenes involving Alfred take place with Bruce.
If you don’t watch Heroes, then you might recognise him as Sammy Jenkins from (quite ironically) Christopher Nolan’s Memento. He was also Ned… Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day and had a recurring role in Deadwood.
He also happens to be American, which would make him the first live-action non-British Alfred in cinematic history.
He’s a decent actor but as Alfred, really? When you have someone as awesome as Michael Caine in Nolan’s franchise and then you hire a bit part actor for this $200 million project, you wonder if there are two departments at WB.
The smart one’s and the dumb one’s.
So I would say HEAVY RUMOR at this point but it sounds dumb enough to be true.
source – batman on film
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I think Stephen toblowsky would do an ok job!!
Is this really happening now? No offense to the guy but he’s hardly Michael Caine is he?
I don’t see what’s so bad about him.
Micheal Gough was much better than Micheal Caine as Alfred.
Michael Caine is easily the best Alfred we’ve ever had.
As for ths JLA movie… where do I start? It’s as if they’re actually trying to make the worst movie possible. Are we missing something in this story? I mean, if somebody were to tell me that this film was set in the 50’s and was loosely based on the New Frontier book/DVD then I’d be on board, but as it stands now this thing looks like the biggest clusterfuck since that time-travelling gooback episode of South Park.