Michael Rosenbaum Reveals He Auditioned to Voice Batman in ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’

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The original Batman animated series, starring Kevin Conroy in his most famous voice role, premiered in 1992 and concluded in 1995. Although DC Animated Universe spawned sequels and spin-off series like Justice League and Batman Beyond in which Conroy reprised the role. Conroy passed away last year after battling with colorectal cancer. Conroy’s last performance as Batman will be in the upcoming video game Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which was delayed several times already.

At the WarnerMedia Upfront event in May 2021, a new Batman animated series, officially titled Batman: Caped Crusader, was announced, with Matt Reeves, J. J. Abrams, and Bruce Timm producing the series. The series was in development for HBOMax before it was scrapped in 2022. In March 2023, it was revealed that Amazon Prime Video picked up the series and immediately ordered two seasons.

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Michael Rosenbaum reveals he wanted to voice Batman in the upcoming animated series!

Michael Rosenbaum is a known name for DC fans since he gained recognition for playing Lex Luthor in the Smallville series starring Tom Welling. His performance as Lex was widely praised. He also voiced many other comic book characters in various animated media, including Deadman in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Wally West/Flash in Justice League, and Ghoul in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. He also starred as Martinex in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 in 2017 and Vol. 3 this year.

On the most recent episode of his Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast, Rosenbaum admitted that he auditioned for the voice role of Batman in the “JJ Abrams-produced Batman show.” He didn’t get the part, although he was apparently the type of voice actor producers wanted for the part.

Although Kevin Conroy is, without a doubt, the most known Batman voice actor of all time, many other voice actors also did a pretty good job with this specific voice role. To voice Batman, you really need to have a specific kind of voice, and some of the voice actors that are also known for voicing Batman are Jason O’Mara (DC Animated Movie Universe), Will Arnett (The LEGO movie franchise), Troy Baker (Batman: Arkham Origins video game), and Jensen Ackles (Batman: The Long Halloween).

Batman: Caped Crusader is still in development, with the release date still TBA, although it is expected to premiere this year on Amazon Prime Video.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.

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