In a neat piece of symmetry, it looks like the casting of the Dark Knight’s next adversary is coming down to the toss of a coin. Insider John Rocha revealed that casting has come down to a final pair of prospective stars to take on the role of Harvey Dent aka Two-Face in The Batman – Part II while chatting on The Hot Mic podcast with Jeff Sneider.
Ahead of a scheduled – writers’ strike permitting, of course – production start eyed for early 2024 at the Warner Bros. Leavesden Studios, the sequel – which will see Robert Pattinson become vengeance once more in Matt Reeves‘ sequel to last year’s megahit The Batman – is looking at the duo of Josh Hartnett and Joel Edgerton to fill the role.
The producers of the film are exploring casting one of Hartnett or Edgerton in the role of Gotham’s new district attorney. Gotham’s previous – very, very corrupt – district attorney Gil Colson (Peter Sarsgaard) was a victim of the sadistic Riddler (Paul Dano) in The Batman. Rocha notes that the role is to play that of Dent, but that he “may become Two-Face by the end of the film.”
