Nothing would make me happier to report than Warner Bros. deciding to reboot Christopher Nolan’s doom-and-gloom Batman series by recasting Val Kilmer in the part—preferably due to some sort of time-travel plot that would let Kilmer replace Batman’s secret identity of “Bruce Wayne” with, say, “Mark Motherfucking Twain.” But alas, that’s not the case. (THANKS FOR NOTHING, WARNER BROS.) Instead, we have to settle for Kilmer showing up on Warwick Davis’ Life’s Too Short. The resultant clip is now my third-favorite thing on the internet, after (1) that Mark Twain business and (2) Kilmer’s Twitter feed.

Thanks to my fellow Val Kilmer superfan Robert B. Fortney for the heads up.

With honor and distinction, Erik Henriksen served as the executive editor of the Portland Mercury from 2004 to 2020. He can now be found at henriksenactual.com.

2 replies on “Val Kilmer Is Back! As Batman!”

  1. Back then I would never have imagined it would someday be so funny to be a Val Kilmer superfan, but it totally is! Keep it up, Henriksen.

  2. That was funny! For some reason I never envisioned Warwick Davis being so charming, I got to check out this show.

    He was the bomb in Willow, yo!

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