George Clooney won’t be back as Batman probably, well, ever.
The “Batman & Robin” star briefly appeared as an alternate timeline Bruce Wayne in multiverse movie “The Flash,” but Clooney told Entertainment Tonight that he has hung up his cowl as the Caped Crusader.
“Well I thought there was such a clamor for me to come back, as you know,” the “Boys in the Boat” director said. “There was a bit where I said I’m actually wearing my rubber nipples and they were like, ‘Can we do it without the rubber nipples?’ I was like, ‘Well it’s not really my Batman then, is it?’”
Clooney added, “I don’t think there’s enough drugs in the world for me to go back.”
Along with Clooney, Ben Affleck played Batman in “The Flash.” Two Supermen also existed in the movie, with Nicolas Cage finally portraying the Superman he was slated to play for Tim Burton’s scrapped 1998 film “Superman Lives.”
“The Flash” actor Clooney previously quipped to Variety in 2021 that his Batman did “destroy a franchise” for Joel Schumacher’s 1997 “Batman & Robin.” Clooney also admitted that he hasn’t let his wife of nine years Amal Clooney watch the movie. “There are certain films I just go, ‘I want my wife to have some respect for me,’” he said.
Meanwhile, Clooney instead is looking to reprise his role in the “Ocean’s” films, teasing a possible fourth movie on the horizon. “We have a really good script for another ‘Ocean’s’ now, so we may end up doing another one,” Clooney told Uproxx. “It’s actually a great script.”
Clooney added that the film won’t be called “Ocean’s 14,” saying, “Well … I don’t want to call it that … I mean, the idea is kind of like ‘Going in Style.’”
The “Ocean’s” trilogy, helmed by Steven Soderbergh, kicked off in 2001 with “Ocean’s 11,” followed by 2004’s “Ocean’s 12,” and 2007’s “Ocean’s 13.” A spin-off movie “Ocean’s 8” was later released, with a prequel starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling currently in the works. Jay Roach will direct, with the heist film being set in 1960s Europe; “Barbie” actors Robbie and Gosling allegedly play Clooney’s parents in the movie.
