I’ve been a Batman fan ever since I began watching the perfect Batman: The Animated Collection episodes at a younger age. Whereas I’ll all the time have a gentle spot for Mark Hamill’s Joker from that DC Animated Universe continuity, Two-Face nonetheless ranks as my favourite Batman villain general. I particularly loved Josh Duhamel’s efficiency because the character within the animated film Batman: The Lengthy Halloween, and the actor has shared why he’d be sport to reprise the position in dwell motion for an upcoming DC film or upcoming DC TV present.
Whereas talking with Duhamel about his new film London Calling, which is now taking part in on the 2025 motion pictures schedule, CBR requested the actor if he can be fascinated by exploring Two-Face in a live-action setting. He stated the next about why that appeals to him:
Oh, man, I feel perhaps it is that transition that, it is such a twin persona that this man has. I simply assume again to discovering — even simply within the voice, discovering that, after which having to return months later and re-find it once more. I did not keep in mind doing that, but it surely was a extremely enjoyable. There is a actually enjoyable character. I do not know, I feel that it is simply attending to play these twin kind of personalities. On the one hand, he is this, however however, there’s that underbelly that is a lot, a lot, a lot darker. Perhaps simply put that on the market. Hopefully that’ll occur, proper?
Adapting the same-named storyline by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, The Lengthy Halloween (which was initially launched in two components and delayed for some time due to The Batman) chronicled Harvey Dent’s fall from grace as Jensen Ackles’ Batman clashed with each the mob and Gotham’s extra colourful criminals. Although he began out wanting to wash up Gotham Metropolis and assist Batman observe down the Vacation serial killer, Harvey was scarred on half of his face and have become the corrupted Two-Face. The Lengthy Halloween was one of many extra critically well-received motion pictures within the Tomorrowverse timeline, and Josh Duhamel’s efficiency is an enormous a part of that.
Contemplating his filmography, I’d assume Duhamel has the caché to at the very least be thought-about to play Two-Face in live-action. He clearly has a superb grasp on Harvey Dent’s duality, and there are a handful of actors who’ve made the transition from voicing a personality to taking part in them onscreen, like Katee Sackhoff’s Bo-Katan within the Star Wars franchise and Frank Grillo’s Rick Flag Sr. within the DC Universe. Why can’t Duhamel be added to the record?
This could possibly be achieved by both looping him into the DC Universe continuity or placing him within the standalone Batman Epic Crime Saga franchise. The latter looks like a greater wager since Two-Face may conceivably be added to a follow-up to 2027’s The Batman: Half II, whether or not that be Half III or his personal TV present, like The Penguin. We nonetheless don’t know when the DCU’s Batman will probably be launched in The Courageous and the Daring, however because it’s anticipated that will probably be an older Caped Crusader, the nearer similarity in age may work in Josh Duhamel’s favor.
It is only a hypothetical subject for now, however after having fun with Duhmael’s voice work in Batman: The Lengthy Halloween, I’m undoubtedly sport to see him carry Two-Face to life for a dwell motion venture. Alas, that Tomorrowverse entry isn’t accessible to stream as of this writing, however yow will discover many different Batman motion pictures and TV reveals on HBO Max.