Having lent his voice to the character in The LEGO Movie, Will Arnett is set to reprise his role as The Caped Crusader in next year’s spinoff The LEGO Batman Movie, and the actor has been chatting to Entertainment Weekly about the film ahead of its upcoming panel at San Diego Comic-Con this week.
“What came out of The LEGO Movie was the idea of, Batman’s the Dark Knight, so why is he so moody? What’s going on? Why is he so banged up? And wouldn’t it be fun to get in there and explore that?” states Arnett. “[Exploring Batman’s moodiness] was always the intention, but as you record a few sessions and you get on these tangents, you end up taking the entire story down a road that wasn’t necessarily the intended road. It can totally drastically change the narrative just through goofing around… Sometimes what’s funny is when Batman is at odds emotionally with what we think we know about him in our version. We have moments where we make him a little bit insecure, and moments where you make him weirdly confident in ways he doesn’t necessarily deserve to be.”
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“When we were first finding the Batman voice and finding what was making us laugh the first time around, it took us a beat to wade through the different things we liked and found funny about each Batman,” he continues, with regards to the previous portrayals of The Dark Knight and how they will influence the film. “I tried to look at all of the Batmen. Now, I feel like I’m in a zone where I’m just really lucky that I’ve got all of these great guys who played Batman before me, and the comics before that, and I get to draw on this deep well and just mix and match.”
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The LEGO Batman Movie is set for release on February 10th 2017 and sees Will Arnett joined in the voice cast by Michael Cera (Superbad) as Robin, Rosario Dawson (Daredevil) as Batgirl, Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover) as The Joker, Ralph Fiennes (Spectre) as Alfred and Mariah Carey as the Mayor of Gotham.
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Originally published July 18, 2016. Updated November 29, 2022.
