Stranger Things fans reckon they’ve found the perfect actor to play Scarecrow in Matt Reeves’ Batman films: Jamie Campbell Bower.
Campbell Bower plays Vecna in the fourth season of Netflix’s hit series. Host of the GOAT Movies Podcast @blurayangel said in a now viral tweet he would make a great Scarecrow alongside Robert Pattinson‘s Batman. Maybe it’s the hallucination gas but I can see it.
“Matt Reeves, we have your Scarecrow here for The Batman 2,” he said.
Other fans seemed to agree with him. One Twitter user called the fan-cast “perfect”. Another simply said: “duuuude, solid pick”.
“I usually don’t agree with these type of fan-casts but I could see this,” said one Bat-fan.
Others dragged the tweet for reflecting the problem with present day fan-casting culture.
“Fan-casting now is just taking the guy from the current popular thing and putting him in the next iteration of a slightly older popular thing.”
A few users suggested other actors that they thought should play the spooky, psychedelic villain. These included Steven Yuen (The Walking Dead, Nope, Minari) and Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody, Mr. Robot, No Time To Die).
Matt Reeves is yet to confirm whether Scarecrow will even appear in The Batman 2. Cillian Murphy played the character in The Dark Knight Rises.
Jamie Campbell Bower apologised to Joseph Quinn and fans in a recent Netflix official video for butchering your faves.