Casting rumor suggests The Batman Part II will be even darker

An unconfirmed report from independent reporter Jeff Sneider says Sebastian Stan is being lined up to play Victor Zsasz while Brian Tyree Henry would portray Harvey Dent. Warner Bros., DC Studios and the major Hollywood trades have not confirmed those castings, so the details remain speculative.

Zsasz is an unsettling serial killer who carves a tally mark into his skin for every victim. He lacks the theatrical flash of villains like the Joker, which makes him a natural fit for Matt Reeves’s grim, detective-driven Gotham; the first film treated the Riddler as a serial murderer and framed Batman as an investigator navigating a city rotting from the inside out.

Rumors also suggest Colin Farrell’s Penguin could appear in flashbacks tied to Zsasz’s origin, echoing versions — notably 1996’s The First Cut Is the Deepest — in which Zsasz loses his fortune gambling at the Iceberg Lounge.

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