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'Reacher' star Alan Ritchson really wants to play Batman: "I would love to play Batman. There, I said it, okay? I’ll shout it from the rooftops"

Alan Ritchson explains why he's the right choice to play Batman in James Gunn's rebooted DC Universe. Do you think he could play The Dark Knight?

At 6’3″ and 230 pounds of solid muscle, Ritchson certainly has the physical stature to play Batman; his no-nonsense attitude as Jack Reacher in the eponymous Amazon Prime series is another reason he’s become a favorite among DC fans to take on the role of The Dark Knight in James Gunn’s upcoming The Brave and the Bold, which Gunn has revealed will center around an older, veteran Batman mentoring a young Robin. In a recent interview with The Post Cred podcast he said, “The fact that people are interested in me playing Batman is a real honor and privilege. It’s one of the first characters I fell in love with as a child: I still remember the big, long pistol coming out of Joker’s pants as he goes to shoot down the Batplane.”

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