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As soon as Ben Affleck announce he was done playing Bruce Wayne casinos started putting out odds for who would be the next Batman.
Who will be the next actor to follow in the footsteps of Adam West, Michael Keaton, George Clooney, Val Kilmer, Christian Bale, and Batfleck?
If you ask author G. Willow Wilson, whose Twitter thread on the matter went viral, it all has to do with the eyebrows.
https://twitter.com/GWillowWilson/status/1091007906722377728
https://twitter.com/GWillowWilson/status/1091008799622623233
Definitely an interesting theory, what what do the people who really study this sort of thing, casinos, think?
According to Betway, it’s going to be Jake Gyllenhaal.
• Jake Gyllenhaal 100/30
• Oscar Isaac 4/1
• Michael B. Jordan 5/1
• Armie Hammer 11/2
• Kit Harrington 8/1
• Jon Hamm 10/1
• Liam Hemsworth 20/1
• Richard Madden 20/1
• Jack O’Connell 33/1
• Riz Ahmed 50/1
SkyBet agrees.
• Jake Gyllenhaal 3/1
• Oscar Isaac 4/1
• Armie Hammer 5/1
• Michael B. Jordan 11/2
• Kit Harrington 7/1
• Fionn Whitehead 10/1
• Jon Hamm 12/1
• Liam Hemsworth 16/1
• Richard Madden 20/1
• James Franco, Timothee Chalamet 33/1
Irish bookmakers BoyleSports think DC might go in a different direction.
• Armie Hammer 7/2
• Jake Gyllenhaal 11/2
• Jon Hamm 13/2
• Michael B. Jordan 8/1
• Ben Barnes 8/1
• John Krasinski 9/1
• Jamie Dornan 10/1
• Josh Brolin, Matthew Goode, Chris Pratt, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine 16/1
The folks at Ladbrokes are also down with Gyllenhaal.
• Jake Gyllenhaal 3/1
• Kit Harington 4/1
• Jon Hamm 6/1
• Michael B. Jordan 7/1
• Timothee Chalamet 9/1
• Armie Hammer 9/1
• Sterling K. Brown 9/1
• Richard Madden 9/1
• Milo Ventimiglia 12/1
• Oscar Isaac – 16/1
While MyBookie thinks Jon Snow will get the nod.
• Kit Harington +165
• Jon Hamm +200
• Riz Ahmed +300
• Ryan Gosling +350
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt +400
• Scott Adkins +450
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan +650
• Jake Gyllenhaal +700
• Armie Hammer +800
• Ben Barnes +1000
Gyllenhaal, with an average ranking of 2.6 appears to be out odds-on favorite. Kit Harington was both first and absent from a list. Armie Hammer, John Hamm and Michael B. Jordan were also popular choices.
So… which one of these actors would you prefer? And which one do you think will actually be our next Caped Crusader?