HBO Max’s Batgirl movie has finally started to take shape with last week’s casting of Leslie Grace as its central vigilante, Barbara Gordon. The other crucial element in the film’s dynamic was recently revealed by THR, which reports that J.K. Simmons will play the character’s father, Commissioner James Gordon, reprising his role from 2017’s Justice League. The casting essentially confirms the film’s place in the DC Extended Universe continuity.
So, will Simmons’s Gordon get to field more than rooftop meetings this time around?
Simmons, an Oscar-winning actor, is already a staple in the comic book movie genre, thanks to his irreplaceable role as boisterously cantankerous paper editor J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Trilogy and a recently relaunched iteration of the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including in in this December’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. Yet, he can also effectively play a frightening badass,...
So, will Simmons’s Gordon get to field more than rooftop meetings this time around?
Simmons, an Oscar-winning actor, is already a staple in the comic book movie genre, thanks to his irreplaceable role as boisterously cantankerous paper editor J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Trilogy and a recently relaunched iteration of the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including in in this December’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. Yet, he can also effectively play a frightening badass,...
- 7/30/2021
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
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