Giancarlo Esposito Wants To Play This Batman Villain For The DCU

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Giancarlo Esposito is an extremely cool guy who wants to play another extremely cool guy. The cool guy in question? The Batman baddie, Mr. Freeze.

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IGN says the site interviewed Esposito at the Fan Expo in Cleveland where the “Captain America: Brave New World” star said he’d be interested in playing Mr. Freeze in the new DCU. There’s no full interview yet on IGN’s site, only what they had to say on social media.

Mr. Freeze has existed in the comics since 1959, but it wasn’t until 1992’s “Batman: The Animated Series” revamped the character that he became the tragic villain he’s largely seen as today. In his new origin story, Dr. Victor Fries suffers an accident while treating his cryogenically frozen and terminally ill wife, Nora.

Nathan Darrow played the character in “Gotham” and Arnold Schwarzenegger played him in the 1997 flop “Batman & Robin.”

Along with being an absolutely brilliant fit for Mr. Freeze, Esposito is no comic book media virgin. He recently made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Sidewinder in “Captain America: Brave New World,” he voices Lex Luthor in “Harley Quinn,” and plays Stan Edgar in “The Boys.”

It’s a good time for Esposito to put out what he wants to the universe because the DCU is still a very young narrative. Whoever winds up being cast as the DCU Batman, his story will likely begin in the upcoming “The Brave and the Bold” which is still in development. Besides the body horror flick “Clayface” helmed by Michael Flanagan, there’s little to no word on Batman baddies in the DCU, and just about all of Batman’s rogues’ gallery is up for grabs.

There has been no official word from DC Studios in response to Esposito’s interview, but he would be a great get for any director who winds up making a future film with Mr. Freeze. You can’t do much worse than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Giancarlo Esposito is currently starring in “The Residence,” a murder mystery drama miniseries on Netflix. The series also stars Uzo Aduba, Susan Kelechi Watson, Randall Park, Bronson Pinchot, Edwinda Findley, Jason Lee, Dan Perrault, Molly Griggs, Ken Marino, Al Mitchell, Andrew Friedman, Mary Wiseman, Matt Oberg, Spencer Garrett, Taran Killam, and more.

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