{"id":2336606,"date":"2026-03-19T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2336606"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:01:16","slug":"the-batman-part-ii-robert-deniro-reportedly-turned-down-christopher-dent-role-in-dc-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-batman-part-ii-robert-deniro-reportedly-turned-down-christopher-dent-role-in-dc-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Batman Part II: Robert DeNiro Reportedly Turned Down Christopher Dent Role In DC Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">With <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt19850008\/\">The Batman Part II<\/a> set to begin production this Spring, the sequel&#8217;s cast has quickly taken shape. So far, it looks like the main focus will be on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4662251\/\">Dent<\/a> family, with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt20969586\/\">Thunderbolts<\/a>* star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1659221\/\">Sebastian Stan<\/a> playing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1758364\/\">Harvey Dent<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4154796\/\">Avengers: Endgame<\/a>&#8216;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0424060\/\">Scarlett Johansson<\/a> eyed to portray his wife, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2791060\/\">Gilda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The last major role to cast is reportedly <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4818639\/\">Christopher Dent<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6172450\/\">Harvey<\/a>&#8216;s father. It&#8217;s unclear what that character will bring to the table, but after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000093\/\">Brad Pitt<\/a>, Stellan Skarsgaard, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0185819\/\">Daniel Craig<\/a> supposedly passed on the role, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077869\/\">The Lord of the Rings<\/a> star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001557\/\">Viggo Mortensen<\/a>&#8216;s name has been thrown around in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;d suggest taking&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-link ipc-link--base sc-a1082b8f-0 dYguHm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-disabled=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/comicbookmovie.com\/batman\/the-batman-2\/the-batman-part-ii-robert-deniro-reportedly-turned-down-christopher-dent-role-in-dc-sequel-a226900\">See full article at ComicBookMovie.com<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" class=\"ipc-icon ipc-icon--launch-inline ipc-icon--inline ipc-link__launch-icon\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"currentColor\" role=\"presentation\"><path d=\"M21.6 21.6H2.4V2.4h7.2V0H0v24h24v-9.6h-2.4v7.2zM14.4 0v2.4h4.8L7.195 14.49l2.4 2.4L21.6 4.8v4.8H24V0h-9.6z\"\/><\/svg><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With The Batman Part II set to begin production this Spring, the sequel&#8217;s cast has quickly taken shape. So far, it looks like the main focus will be on the Dent family, with Thunderbolts* star Sebastian Stan playing Harvey Dent and Avengers: Endgame&#8216;s Scarlett Johansson eyed to portray his wife, Gilda. The last major role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2336607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2336606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Batman-Part-II-Robert-DeNiro-Reportedly-Turned-Down-Christopher.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336608,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336606\/revisions\/2336608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}