The Batman Star And Venom 2 Director Andy Serkis Reveals If He Prefers DC or Marvel

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Anything that includes the word ‘Batman’ is a conversational topic these days. And that eternal ‘Marvel vs DC’ debate is a conversational topic almost every day, especially when some filmmaker and/or actor works in both comic book houses.

Andy Serkis, who is best known for the role of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, starred in Marvel Cinematic Universe as Ulysses Klaue in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Black Panther, and What If…?, and last year he directed Sony’s Marvel movie Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Now, his newest role is currently the role of Alfred Pennyworth in Matt Reeves’ DC movie The Batman. So, that pops up that infamous eternal question: “Who do you prefer, Marvel or DC?”, Serkis now offered the answer:

“I was just thinking, ‘Who’s gonna employ me the most after this moment?… No, look, I love both worlds… I love the brightness and the boldness of Marvel stories. They’re all mythologies. And I do like the darkness of DC.” He added of both franchises,” They touch on real human emotions, on world events, on what’s going on around us. They are great allegories for our times.”

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Serkis also starred as Snoke in Star Wars movies The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. Although this wasn’t confirmed yet, it’s expected that he could return to direct Venom 3, which is in early development at Sony. Also, The Batman launched the so-called Batverse, and it’s expected that we’ll see more of Serkis’ Alfred in the inevitable sequel.

Co-written and directed by Matt Reeves, and starring Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell, The Batman now plays in theaters.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.