Timothée Chalamet Reveals Where He Stands on Playing a Superhero After His Favorite Batman Movie

Timothee Chalamet keeps getting asked the same question: when is he going to put on a cape? He is everywhere right now — Dune, Wonka, the upcoming Marty Supreme that people are already calling his best work — and yet he has somehow dodged the superhero industrial complex. On purpose. Mostly.

The movie that made him want to act... was a superhero movie

Chalamet told The New York Times in 2024 that the film that pushed him toward acting was Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. He also said he is not totally opposed to capes if the project is actually great: if the script is strong and the director is the real deal, he would think about it. In other words, not a hard no — just a high bar.

'Well, Leonardo DiCaprio said to me, No superhero movies, no hard drugs. Which I thought was very good. I follow them both!'

That advice came from his Hollywood north star, Leonardo DiCaprio. And to be fair, so far he has listened. Chalamet broke big with Call Me By Your Name, then stacked up prestige and blockbuster cred across Dune, Wonka, and the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. Marty Supreme is next, via A24, and early whispers say it could be his finest performance yet.

So would he actually do it? The DCU has a Batman-sized hole

Here is where it gets interesting. James Gunn's new DCU does not have its Batman yet for The Brave and the Bold — that is the in-continuity Batman, separate from Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson's Elseworlds corner. Andy Muschietti is attached to direct Brave and the Bold, and Gunn is overseeing the DCU at large, which checks a couple of Chalamet's boxes right there.

As for the fit: Chalamet has range for days — the earnest charm of Wonka, the haunted intensity of Dune, the musician mystique in A Complete Unknown, and whatever storm he is cooking up in Marty Supreme. He also has that 'innocent but bruised' energy that can tilt into a convincingly traumatized Bruce Wayne. If this version of Batman needs to stand toe-to-toe with DCU's Superman, the age math works too: Chalamet is 29, David Corenswet is 32. You could buy those two clashing when Gotham and Metropolis inevitably collide.

Quick refresher: The Dark Knight numbers

• Directed by: Christopher Nolan
• Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman
• Year of release: 2008
• IMDb rating: 9.1/10
• Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%
• Worldwide box office: $1 billion
• Production house: Warner Bros. Pictures
• Where to watch: HBO Max

Where this leaves things

Chalamet is publicly steering clear of superhero movies, and he has a pretty bulletproof reason in DiCaprio's two rules. But the film that made him want to act is The Dark Knight, and he has said he would consider capes if the material and the filmmaker are undeniable. James Gunn and Andy Muschietti could be exactly the combo that tempts him. Whether that means he should be DCU's Batman is a separate debate — but it is not a wild one.

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Marty Supreme will release in theaters on December 25, 2025 (USA).