Batman: Keanu Reeves Cast As The Dark Knight In New DC Movie

It's official, Keanu Reeves is the latest actor to take on the role of Batman. The beloved Canadian star will be playing the Dark Knight in an upcoming DC movie alongside a stellar cast that includes John Krasinski and Nicolas Cage.

This fan-pleasing news comes just days after the worldwide release of The Batman, a stellar movie in which Robert Pattinson's take on the masked vigilante is winning all sorts of acclaim. One thing we can say with some certainty is that Reeves' Batman is going to be vastly different from Pattinson's... because the movie he's playing the character in couldn't be further from the most recent live-action take on Gotham.

What am I talking about? See for yourself in the trailer below.

That's right: Keanu Reeves is Batman... in DC League Of Super Pets, an upcoming animated feature all about the animal sidekicks of the DC universe.

It says a lot about how malleable Batman is as a character that you can have him hunting down a masked serial killer who bludgeons people to death in one movie, and then release an animated feature just a few months later in which he hangs out with a brooding dog voiced by Kevin Hart.

DC League Of Super Pets stars Keanu Reeves (Batman), John Krasinski (Superman) Dwayne Johnson (Krypto the Super-Dog) and Kevin Hart (Ace the Bat Hound). The animated adventure will see Krypto and Ace form their own version of the Justice League after Superman and the gang are kidnapped. If you haven't already worked it out, this will be a much more family friendly adventure in comparison to The Batman.

DC League of Super-Pets releases in theaters internationally on May 18, 2022. The campaign for a live-action Keanu Reeves Batman will start soon after, I imagine.