Jeffrey Dean Morgan Confirms He Was Meant to Play Flashpoint Batman in the DCEU

There was a point where DC fans held out hope that Jeffrey Dean Morgan would one day play Flashpoint’s Batman, and it turns out, it almost happened! Morgan has officially confirmed that he was in line to play the brutal Thomas Wayne version of the Dark Knight in the DCEU.

In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Zack Snyder kicked things off with the Wayne murders in Crime Alley and Morgan played Thomas Wayne and Lauren Cohan plays Martha. You don’t cast these two die and never see them again.

Fans instantly started speculating about Flashpoint and alternate timelines. Thomas as Batman. Martha as Joker. The pieces were all there.

In a new interview promoting The Walking Dead: Dead City, Morgan confirmed what many had long suspected:

"Truthfully, Zack was gonna do more movies, and I think there was a time when Flashpoint Batman would have seen these two characters in a much bigger role. And that was part of the Zack world of all of it, and then I never got a chance to do that, unfortunately."

Snyder had a broader vision, and Flashpoint Batman was part of it. But like so many things in the ever-shifting sands of the DCEU, that vision never materialized. Snyder stepped away and the projects he was developing just faded away.

The Flash project was handed off to a rotating door of directors and writers. What we got in the end was a multiverse mashup that leaned into nostalgia, with Michael Keaton returning as Batman and a CGI blur of cameos.

Morgan's co-star Lauren Cohan didn’t weigh in during the interview, but it’s long been rumored that if Morgan’s Thomas became Batman, Cohan’s Martha would’ve become a Joker twisted by grief. This was such a wild version of the Batman story.

This is now one of those DC “what ifs” that will sting fans of the DCEU a little more now, knowing how close we were to something potentially wild and different.