While every Marvel movie has a Stan Lee cameo, The CW's DC Universe is known for paying tribute to actors who once portrayed certain superheroes - John Wesley Shipp, Dean Cain, Helen Slater, and Linda Carter - by casting them in various roles. Fans have been expecting to see the DC Extended Universe do something similar, but they haven't done it yet.
However, they can now start considering it! Adam West, the man who portrayed the first live-action Batman, has expressed his interest in doing a cameo in Ben Affleck's The Batman!
During a recent interview with Comic Book, the veteran actor reveals that he would "never" return as the Caped Crusader in a live-action venture. But he would "absolutely" love to have a cameo in the DCEU installment.
West also has an interesting suggestion for how Affleck could use him in The Batman. He would appear as an aged-but-badass Thomas Wayne, who has somehow returned from the dead! Here's what the actor says:
You know what I’d love to do? Those guys are all wonderful talents in their own ways, and they approach the role differently, but if I could approach it in a darker way, of course, in a more serious way, however, it would be wonderful to play Bruce Wayne’s father coming back. You know he was murdered, but coming back one dark and stormy lightning-riven night through a library window. Bruce Wayne is there thinking, “I’ll never solve this. This is the most difficult thing in my life.” In comes old dad, like a bat, almost.
Adam West is not the only youngster to have pitched his casting in The Batman. Burt Ward, who played Robin alongside West's Batman, recently revealed that he wouldn't mind playing Dick Grayson again in the Ben Affleck venture. But it remains to be seen whether Warner Bros. and Affleck come up with something for these ever-green actors.
