As if Brendan Fraser wasn’t busy sufficient, the re-emerging actor has picked up a brand new function. Fraser will seem within the HBO Max Batgirl movie because the pyromaniac villain Firefly, Deadline stories.
Fraser’s casting is unconfirmed per Deadline, but when true would be the fourth member to hitch the solid. Leslie Grace will star as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, and J.Okay. Simmons will reprise his function of Commissioner Gordon from Justice League. Jacob Scipio (Dangerous Boys for Life) has additionally been solid in an unknown function. Plot particulars for the movie are nonetheless underneath wraps at the moment. Dangerous Boys for Life co-directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah will direct a script written by Christina Hodson.
This can be Fraser’s second function within the DCU in addition to his second on HBO Max. He additionally stars as Cliff Steele/Robotman on the HBO Max collection Doom Patrol, which is presently on Season 3 and has been renewed for Season 4. Fraser joins a small group of actors who’ve appeared in a number of roles in DC’s live-action universe, together with Jay Lycurgo, who seems as Tim Drake in Titans Season 3 on HBO Max, and as a gang member in Matt Reeves’ The Batman; Mark Sturdy additionally appeared as Sinestro in 2011’s Inexperienced Lantern and as Dr. Sivana in Shazam.
Fraser himself is a really busy man proper now. Aside from Batgirl and Doom Patrol, the actor appeared in No Sudden Transfer, and can be showing in The Whale, Killers of the Flower Moon, Behind the Curtain of Evening, and Brothers.
DC has not but introduced a launch date for the Batgirl film, which may even be the primary DC movie to debut completely on HBO Max with no theatrical run.