I found who should play Dick Grayson!

[seriousfic]

In case you don't know, Dick Grayson is Nightwing, nee Robin, Batman's old sidekick partner all grown up and trying to follow in his adopted father's footsteps while still being his own man. This involves a surprising amount of having sex with hot alien princesses that lack nudity taboos.

Also pictured is Sam Witwer, who was in The Mist, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Battlestar Galactica, and most notably the Doomsday bartender EMT in Smallville. And somehow, he took the cliched, crack idea of Doomsday really being a sexy twentysomething and elevated it into complete awesomeness.

However, it's Smallville, so that shit didn't last. And now that that's done, what SW really needs is a role he can really sink his teeth into, where his natural charisma, propensity for being really really ridiculously good-looking, and HOLY CHRIST PUPPY DOG EYES can find a good home.



It's a match made in heaven. C'mon, can't you just see him having some totally awesome shouting match with Bale? And really, who would you rather have? The Heroes guy? Maybe if movie!Dick's backstory is that he had a stroke that left half of his face paralyzed...

But what about acting?

Weapons-grade woobieness detected! All pretty people, proceed to Defcon Comfort Sex! Whoa, way to throw yourself on the grenade, Sergeant Sullivan...

Thus, all you high-power Hollywood casting agents who follow this blog should totally get on the horn to the guy in charge of making things not suck. I mean, this is Patrick Stewart = Professor X, Peter Dinklage = Tyrion Lannister type perfection here.

Plus, Chloe is kinda the Smallville universe's version of Barbara Gordon. Dick Grayson sleeps with the regular DC universe's version of Barbara Gordon. It may be an acting stretch to go from "protect tiny blonde!" to "protect tiny redhead!", but SW can manage.

Comments

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

By that same token, they should cast a body-builder to play Superman. You can teach someone parkour, but acting... not so much.

[mneiai.livejournal.com]

How so? Superman doesn't do anything outside of normal human limits, just with added flying, etc. We never even see him do a split and any time he does any sort of acrobatics it's in the air, which ANTM has taught us that anyone can do on wires.

I think it's actually kinda prejudice of you to talk as though a parkour guy couldn't be able to act. I mean, fuck, even Johnny Depp started out as a musician before considering acting. People can be multi-talented.